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Who shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Sperry?

  • Stephen Hawking

  • Carl Sagan

  • David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel

  • Lynn Margulis

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David Hunter Hubel and Torsten Nils Wiesel shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine with Roger Sperry for their work on the visual system. Their research showed that the visual system is organized in a hierarchical manner, with information from the retina being processed in a series of stages before reaching the visual cortex.
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