Editing Cortical column (section)

==Hubel and Wiesel studies==
[[David H. Hubel|David Hubel]] and [[Torsten Wiesel]] followed up on Mountcastle's discoveries in the [[Postcentral gyrus|somatic sensory cortex]] with their own studies in vision. A part of the discoveries that resulted in them winning the 1981 [[Nobel Prize]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1981/ |title=The Nobel Prize in Medicine 1981 |accessdate=2008-04-13}}</ref> was that there were cortical columns in [[Visual cortex|vision]] as well, and that the neighboring columns were also related in function in terms of the orientation of lines that evoked the maximal discharge. Hubel and Wiesel followed up on their own studies with work demonstrating the impact of environmental changes on cortical organization, and the sum total of these works resulted in their Nobel Prize.