Torsten Nils Wiesel was born in Sweden in 1924, and is now Emeritus President at the Rockefeller University and Nobel prize winner in Medicine and Physiology in 1981 thanks to his discoveries on the subject of information processing.
He discovered how the brain area responsible for vision needs stimulus for its development. These discoveries showed a proof of the brain's plasticity, the possibility of changing its structures according to received stimuli. He broke away, therefore, from the "immobilist" idea of the brain, proving that not all human being's abilities are as innate as we once thought, since with an appropriate stimulus they can be acquired.
Conference of Torsten Nils Wiesel. ConCiencia Programme (10/12/2006)
