What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain
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"What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain" is a landmark 1959 neuroscience paper that revealed how the frog’s visual system extracts specific features from the environment, helping to found the field of sensory information processing.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T18347848 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain Context triple: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, notableWork, What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain]
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“Eye, Brain, and Vision”
“Eye, Brain, and Vision” is a popular science book by neurophysiologist David H. Hubel that explains how the visual system works, from the eye’s structure to the brain’s processing of visual information.
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Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information is a seminal 1982 book by David Marr that laid the foundations of computational neuroscience and modern theories of visual perception.
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Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons
Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons is a seminal book that rigorously explains how individual neurons perform complex information processing using biophysical and computational principles.
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The Computational Brain
The Computational Brain is an influential book that explores how principles of computation and neural networks can explain brain function and cognition.
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The Physiology of Synapses
The Physiology of Synapses is a seminal scientific monograph by neurophysiologist John Eccles that systematically explores the mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the nervous system.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain Target entity description: "What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain" is a landmark 1959 neuroscience paper that revealed how the frog’s visual system extracts specific features from the environment, helping to found the field of sensory information processing.
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A.
“Eye, Brain, and Vision”
“Eye, Brain, and Vision” is a popular science book by neurophysiologist David H. Hubel that explains how the visual system works, from the eye’s structure to the brain’s processing of visual information.
-
B.
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information is a seminal 1982 book by David Marr that laid the foundations of computational neuroscience and modern theories of visual perception.
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C.
Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons
Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons is a seminal book that rigorously explains how individual neurons perform complex information processing using biophysical and computational principles.
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D.
The Computational Brain
The Computational Brain is an influential book that explores how principles of computation and neural networks can explain brain function and cognition.
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E.
The Physiology of Synapses
The Physiology of Synapses is a seminal scientific monograph by neurophysiologist John Eccles that systematically explores the mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the nervous system.
- F. None of above. chosen
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