Valentino Braitenberg
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Valentino Braitenberg (or Valentin von Braitenberg; 18 June 1926 – 9 September 2011) was an Italian neuroscientist and cyberneticist. He was a former director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany.
His book
Life
Valentino Braitenberg grew up in the province of South Tyrol. Braitenberg's father was Senator Carl von Braitenberg,[2] a member of the South Tyrolean nobility.
Since the age of 6, Braitenberg grew up bilingual in the two languages Italian and German. German was spoken at home and all schooling was Italian, conforming to the historic context. The humanistic Lyceum-Gymnasium (High school) in Bolzano gave him an excellent classic education including Italian literature. The German literary education was based on the classical writers he found in his extensive home library. In addition, he trained as a violinist at the Conservatorio Claudio Monteverdi in Bolzano and became a talented violinist and violist.
Braitenberg studied Medicine and Psychiatry at the
Braitenberg received an honorary doctorate from the University of Salzburg in 1995.
Braitenberg was married to the painter Elisabeth Hanna. They had three children, Margareta, Carla, and Zeno.
Works
According to Maier (2012),[3] Braitenberg's interest in understanding the brain began in 1948, when he looked for the first time at some human brain tissue under a microscope. He said that although the connections seemed unbelievably complex, Braitenberg eventually realised that computers could serve as a useful model for understanding the brain. She said that he made seminal contributions to understanding the neuroanatomy of the cerebellum, the wiring of the eye of the fly, and the organisation of the human cerebrum.
Braitenberg published more than 180 scientific works during his lifetime, not including abstracts, reprints, translations into different languages, and different editions of some of his works.[4] According to a search of Google Scholar in September 2014, Braitenberg's book, Vehicles: Experiments in synthetic psychology, had received at least 2622 citations.
Books published by Braitenberg include:
- Information – der Geist in der Natur. Mit einem Geleitwort von ISBN 978-3-7945-2768-7
- Das Bild der Welt im Kopf. Eine Naturgeschichte des Geistes. LIT Verlag 2004 ISBN 3-8258-7181-9
- Vehikel. Experimente mit künstlichen Wesen, LIT Verlag Münster 2004 ISBN 3-8258-7160-6
- Vehicles: Experiments in synthetic psychology. MIT Press Cambridge 1984 ISBN 978-0-262-52112-3
- Ill oder Der Engel und die Philosophen. Roman. Haffmans Zürich 1999 ISBN 3-251-00424-7
- Information Processing in the Cortex. Experiments and Theory (mit Ad Aertsen), Springer-Verlag 1992 ISBN 3-540-55391-6
- Gescheit sein (und andere unwissenschaftliche Essays). Haffmans Zürich 1987 ISBN 3-251-00112-4
- Evolution: Entwicklung und Organisation in der Natur, das Bozner Treffen 1993 (with I. Hosp), Rowohlt, 1994, ISBN 3-499-19706-5
- Simulation: Computer zwischen Experiment und Theorie (editor with Inga Hosp), Rowohlt 1995 1490-ISBN 3499199270
- Gehirngespinste: Neuroanatomie für kybernetisch Interessierte Springer, Berlin, Germany, 1973, ISBN 3-540-06055-3
- On the Texture of Brains, An introduction to Neuroanatomy for the Cybernetically Minded Springer Verlag 1977, ISBN 978-0-387-08391-9
- Anatomy of the Cortex, Statistics and Geometry (with Almut Schüz), Springer Verlag 1991 ISBN 3-540-53233-1
- Atlas of the frog‘s brain (with M. Kemali), Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1969).
- Il Gusto Della Lingua Alfa & Beta, 1996, ISBN 88-7223-026-8
Honours and namesakes
Awards named after Braitenberg
- Valentino Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience—A biannual award by The Bernstein Association for Computational Neuroscience, supported by the Provinz Bozen.[5][6]
- Golden Neuron Award, a prize initiated by Carla Braitenberg and Massimiliano Gulin.
Literature
- Hosp, Inga; Schüz, Almut; Braitenberg, Zeno, eds. (2011). Tentakel des Geistes. Begegnungen mit Valentin Braitenberg. Arunda 81. Bolzano: Edition Raetia. ISBN 978-88-7283-403-9.
See also
- Braitenberg Vehicles
- Connectionism
- Embodied cognitive science
References
- ^ Valentino, Braitenberg. "Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology" (PDF). The MIT Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ Z am Sonntag, Nr. 37/2011 vom 11. September 2011; S.3
- ^ Maier, Elke (March 2012). "Spying on God" (PDF). MaxPlanckResearch Magazine. Vol. 12, no. 3. pp. 86–67. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "This is a page dedicated to Valentino Braitenberg". Archived from the original on 29 August 2018. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ "Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience — Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience". www.bernstein-network.de. Archived from the original on 2021-08-22. Retrieved 2021-08-22.
- ^ "Valentin Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience — Bernstein Netzwerk Computational Neuroscience". www.bernstein-network.de.
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