NDLI: Of the Helmholtz Club, South-Californian seedbed for visual and cognitive neuroscience, and its patron Francis Crick.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Aicardi, Christine
Spatial Coverage	California
Description	Author Affiliation: Aicardi C ( Department of Science and Technology Studies, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. Electronic address: c.aicardi@ucl.ac.uk.)
Abstract	Taking up the view that semi-institutional gatherings such as clubs, societies, research schools, have been instrumental in creating sheltered spaces from which many a 20th-century project-driven interdisciplinary research programme could develop and become established within the institutions of science, the paper explores the history of one such gathering from its inception in the early 1980s into the 2000s, the Helmholtz Club, which brought together scientists from such various research fields as neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, psychophysics, computer science and engineering, who all had an interest in the study of the visual system and of higher cognitive functions relying on visual perception such as visual consciousness. It argues that British molecular biologist turned South Californian neuroscientist Francis Crick had an early and lasting influence over the Helmholtz Club of which he was a founding pillar, and that from its inception, the club served as a constitutive element in his long-term plans for a neuroscience of vision and of cognition. Further, it argues that in this role, the Helmholtz Club served many purposes, the primary of which was to be a social forum for interdisciplinary discussion, where 'discussion' was not mere talk but was imbued with an epistemic value and as such, carefully cultivated. Finally, it questions what counts as 'doing science' and in turn, definitions of success and failure-and provides some material evidence towards re-appraising the successfulness of Crick's contribution to the neurosciences.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	13698486
e-ISSN	18792499
DOI	10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.11.012
Journal	Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Volume Number	45
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2014-03-01
Publisher Place	Great Britain (UK)
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Discipline Ethics Discipline Social Sciences Discipline History of Medicine Cognition Interdisciplinary Communication Neurosciences Societies, Scientific Visual Perception Dissent And Disputes History, 20th Century History, 21st Century Molecular Biology Research Historical Article Research Support, Non-u.s. Gov't
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	History Medicine History and Philosophy of Science

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