So, I also got to meet at that time, and associate with, and learn from, other people. This is a meeting in Berlin, and just to show how lucky someone is at that stage – here’s me again – how lucky I was at that time, being in that laboratory that you could be sent and go places. Right here is David Van Essen – he hadn’t started working on the visual system directly yet – I think he was still at Harvard at the time and using a guide to label pyramidal cells and characterize them so you could characterize a particular type of cell – maybe they got three – I don’t know. But he was on the edge of what technology would allow. And this is David Hubel, and of course you know Hubel with Wiesel their important contributions - at that time they were studying the response properties of neurons in the visual system of cats and in the lateral geniculate nucleus and cortex – they came up with the idea of orientation-selective cells ------ simple cells we would call them. And this is Wolf Singer who is known, especially now, for his views on correlated activity as something important in binding different stimuli together.

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