Imagining the brain cell: The neuron in visual culture

Richard Wingate; Marius Kwint

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Imagining the brain cell: The neuron in visual culture

Richard Wingate^*, Marius Kwint

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Centre for European & International Studies Research

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Images of the exquisitely formed apparatus of the nervous system have great potential to capture the imagination. However, the fascinating complexity and diversity of neuronal form has only rarely been celebrated in broader visual culture. We discuss how scientific and cultural practices at the time of the neuron's discovery generated a legacy of schematic and simplified popular neuronal imagery, which is only now being revised in the light of technological advances and a changing artistic climate.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	745-752
Number of pages	8
Journal	Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Volume	7
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn1973
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2006

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