shelf for the nervous-system pages, in date order. DOIs were checked against Crossref; books are standard editions. The notes are our summaries, not quotations.

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1. Harlow, J. M. (1868). "Recovery from the passage of an iron bar through the head." Publications of the Massachusetts Medical Society, vol. 2. Public domain; transcribed at Wikisource. en.wikisource.org/wiki/Recovery_from_the_passage_of_an_iron_bar_through_the_head
   The case report on Phineas Gage, twenty years on, with the skull. Public domain. Used in: Gage  archive
2. Nobel Prize Outreach (1906). The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1906: Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Prize summary page. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1906/summary/
   Golgi and Cajal, jointly, for the structure of the nervous system; the two lectures disagree. Used in: Cajal
3. Sherrington, C. S. (1906). The Integrative Action of the Nervous System. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; New Haven: Yale University Press. The Silliman lectures of 1904. Public domain. archive.org/details/integrativeactio00sher
   Reflexes as the integrating work of the nervous system, and the synapse as the place it happens. Public domain. Used in: archive  Sherrington
4. Loewi (1921). Über humorale Übertragbarkeit der Herznervenwirkung. Pflügers Archiv für die Gesamte Physiologie des Menschen und der Tiere. doi:10.1007/bf01738910
   The vagus nerve slows a frog heart by releasing a substance: chemical transmission. Used in: timeline
5. Penfield & Boldrey (1937). Somatic motor and sensory representation in the cerebral cortex of man as studied by electrical stimulation. Brain. doi:10.1093/brain/60.4.389
   Stimulation mapping in patients, summarised as a little man along the central sulcus. Used in: homunculus
6. McCulloch & Pitts (1943). A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity. The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics. doi:10.1007/BF02478259
   Neurons as threshold logic gates; any finite logical expression can be built from them. Used in: Pitts
7. Hebb, D. O. (1949). The Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory. New York: Wiley.
   Cell assemblies, and the proposal that cells that fire together strengthen their link. Used in: Hebb  engram
8. Penfield, W. & Rasmussen, T. (1950). The Cerebral Cortex of Man: A Clinical Study of Localization of Function. New York: Macmillan.
   The book with the famous motor and sensory homunculi. Used in: Penfield
9. Lashley, K. S. (1950). "In search of the engram." Symposia of the Society for Experimental Biology, vol. 4, Physiological Mechanisms in Animal Behaviour. Cambridge University Press.
   Thirty years of lesion experiments that failed to find where a memory is kept. Used in: Lashley
10. Hodgkin & Huxley (1952). A quantitative description of membrane current and its application to conduction and excitation in nerve. The Journal of Physiology. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1952.sp004764
    Four equations for the nerve impulse, fitted to the squid giant axon, that predicted its speed. Used in: archive
11. Scoville & Milner (1957). Loss of recent memory after bilateral hippocampal lesions. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. doi:10.1136/jnnp.20.1.11
    Severe loss of new memory after removal of the medial temporal lobes, in H.M. and others. Used in: archive  Milner
12. Lettvin et al. (1959). What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain. Proceedings of the IRE. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1959.287207
    Frog retinal fibres report bugs, edges and dimming, not points of light. Used in: archive  Lettvin
13. Hubel & Wiesel (1959). Receptive fields of single neurones in the cat's striate cortex. The Journal of Physiology. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1959.sp006308
    Single cells in cat visual cortex respond to oriented edges. Used in: archive
14. Gazzaniga, Bogen & Sperry (1962). Some functional effects of sectioning the cerebral commissures in man. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.48.10.1765
    The first split-brain patient tested: each hemisphere working on its own. Used in: Sperry
15. Sperry (1968). Hemisphere deconnection and unity in conscious awareness. American Psychologist. doi:10.1037/h0026839
    Sperry's statement of the split-brain results and what they imply for unity of mind. Used in: Sperry
16. Bliss & Lømo (1973). Long‐lasting potentiation of synaptic transmission in the dentate area of the anaesthetized rabbit following stimulation of the perforant path. The Journal of Physiology. doi:10.1113/jphysiol.1973.sp010273
    Long-term potentiation in the rabbit hippocampus: a lasting change of the kind Hebb proposed. Used in: engram
17. White et al. (1986). The structure of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences. doi:10.1098/rstb.1986.0056
    Every neuron and synapse in the worm, from electron micrographs. Used in: connectomics
18. Schott (1993). Penfield's homunculus: a note on cerebral cartography. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. doi:10.1136/jnnp.56.4.329
    How the homunculus pictures were made. Used in: homunculus
19. Damasio et al. (1994). The Return of Phineas Gage: Clues About the Brain from the Skull of a Famous Patient. Science. doi:10.1126/science.8178168
    A computer reconstruction of Gage's injury, placing it in both frontal lobes. Used in: Gage
20. Macmillan, M. (2000). An Odd Kind of Fame: Stories of Phineas Gage. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
    Every version of Gage, and how far they drifted from the record. Used in: Gage
21. Rao & Ballard (1999). Predictive coding in the visual cortex: a functional interpretation of some extra-classical receptive-field effects. Nature Neuroscience. doi:10.1038/4580
    A model of visual cortex in which higher areas predict lower ones and only errors pass up. Used in: predictive processing
22. Graziano, Taylor & Moore (2002). Complex Movements Evoked by Microstimulation of Precentral Cortex. Neuron. doi:10.1016/s0896-6273(02)00698-0
    Long stimulation of motor cortex evokes whole actions. Used in: homunculus
23. Ratiu et al. (2004). The Tale of Phineas Gage, Digitally Remastered. Journal of Neurotrauma. doi:10.1089/089771504774129964
    A CT-based reconstruction confining Gage's injury to the left frontal lobe. Used in: Gage
24. Friston (2010). The free-energy principle: a unified brain theory?. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. doi:10.1038/nrn2787
    The free-energy principle, the most ambitious form of the predictive idea. Used in: predictive processing
25. Liu et al. (2012). Optogenetic stimulation of a hippocampal engram activates fear memory recall. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature11028
    Tagged hippocampal cells, reactivated with light, bring back a fear memory in mice. Used in: engram
26. Corkin, S. (2013). Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M. New York: Basic Books.
    Corkin's account of decades of work with H.M. Used in: Milner  archive
27. Annese et al. (2014). Postmortem examination of patient H.M.’s brain based on histological sectioning and digital 3D reconstruction. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/ncomms4122
    H.M.'s brain cut into 2,401 sections and reconstructed. Used in: archive
28. Yamins et al. (2014). Performance-optimized hierarchical models predict neural responses in higher visual cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi:10.1073/pnas.1403112111
    Networks trained to recognise objects predict responses in monkey visual cortex. Used in: neuro and AI
29. Dittrich, L. (2016). Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets. New York: Random House.
    A history of H.M. by the surgeon's grandson, which raised questions about consent and records. Disputed by MIT colleagues of Corkin. Used in: archive
30. MIT News (2016). "Faculty at MIT and beyond respond forcefully to an article critical of Suzanne Corkin." MIT News Office, August 2016, with a statement by James DiCarlo. news.mit.edu/2016/faculty-defend-suzanne-corkin-0809
    The response to Dittrich: more than two hundred scientists signed a letter defending Corkin. Used in: archive
31. Jonas & Kording (2017). Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?. PLOS Computational Biology. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268
    Neuroscience's methods applied to a microprocessor, with sobering results. Used in: connectomics
32. Cobb, M. (2020). The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience. New York: Basic Books.
    A history of the ideas used to explain the brain, from the heart to the computer. Used in: hub
33. Schrimpf et al. (2020). Integrative Benchmarking to Advance Neurally Mechanistic Models of Human Intelligence. Neuron. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2020.07.040
    Brain-Score: many models, many brain benchmarks, one table. Used in: neuro and AI
34. Gordon et al. (2023). A somato-cognitive action network alternates with effector regions in motor cortex. Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05964-2
    The motor strip interrupted by an action-planning network. Used in: homunculus
35. Dorkenwald et al. (2024). Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain. Nature. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07558-y
    FlyWire: the wiring of an entire adult fly brain. Used in: connectomics

see also

	timeline: neuroscience
	annotated: Pitts and the frog
	the nervous system