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Valentino Braitenberg, Prof. Dr. med. Dr rer. nat. h.c.

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Valentino Braitenberg

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From 1968 until his retirement in 1994, Valentino Braitenberg was director of the department Structure and Function of Natural Nerve-Nets at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. His research was mainly based on the combination of neuroanatomy with brain theory, with the aim to understand mechanisms of brain functions. Main fields of research were the visual system of the fly, cerebellum and the physiology of movement, and structure and function of the cerebral cortex. Some of his topics on the cerebral cortex were: quantitative-anatomical studies on the cortex of the mouse and on the human cortical white matter, orientation specificity in the visual cortex of primates, connected also with psychophysical studies on humans, as well as a neurological theory of language.

Books (27):
•	Braitenberg V : Information: der Geist in der Natur, 158, Schattauer, Stuttgart, Germany, (2011). ISBN: 978-3-7945-2768-7
•	Braitenberg V : L‘immagine del mondo nella testa, 171, Adelphi, Milano, Italy, (2008). ISBN: 978-88-45922-52-7
•	Braitenberg V : La vergine e i filosofi: romanzo, 123, Traven Books, Laives, France, (2006). ISBN: 88-89903-07-4
•	Braitenberg V : Das Bild der Welt im Kopf: Eine Naturgeschichte des Geistes, 250, Lit, Münster, Germany, (2004). ISBN: 3-8258-7181-9
•	Braitenberg V : Vehikel: Experimente mit kybernetischen Wesen, 156, Lit, Münster, Germany, (2004). ISBN: 3-8258-7160-6
•	Braitenberg V : Ill oder Der Engel und die Philosophen, 159, Haffmans, Zürich, Switzerland, (March-1999). ISBN: 3-251-00424-7
•	Sabin S , Gahse Z and Braitenberg V : Wörter, Wörter, Wörter!, 40, Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, (1999). ISBN: 3-89244-334-3
•	Braitenberg V and Schüz A : Cortex: Statistics and Geometry of Neuronal Connectivity, 249, Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1998). ISBN: 3-540-63816-4
•	Aertsen A and Braitenberg V : Brain Theory: Biological Basis and Computational Principles, 300, Elsevier, Amsterdam, Netherlands, (1996). ISBN: 978-0-444-82046-4
•	Braitenberg V : Die Natur ist unser Modell von ihr: Forschung und Philosophie ; das Bozner Treffen 1995, 224, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany, (1996). ISBN: 3-499-60254-7
•	Braitenberg V : Il gusto della lingua: Meccanismi cerebrali e strutture grammaticali, 165, Alpha & Beta, Merano, Italy, (1996). ISBN: 88-7223-026-8
•	Braitenberg V and Hosp I : Simulation: Computer zwischen Experiment und Theorie, 175, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany, (1995). ISBN: 3-499-19927-0
•	Braitenberg V and Hosp I : Evolution: Entwicklung und Organisation in der Natur ; das Bozner Treffen 1993, 256, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany, (1994). ISBN: 3-499-19706-5
•	Braitenberg V : Vehikel: Experimente mit kybernetischen Wesen, 156, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, Germany, (1993). ISBN: 3-8258-7160-6
•	Aertsen A and Braitenberg V : Information Processing in the Cortex: Experiments and Theory, 477, Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1992). ISBN: 3-540-55391-6
•	Braitenberg V and Schüz A : Anatomy of the cortex: statistics and geometry, 249, Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1991). ISBN: 3-540-53233-1
•	Braitenberg V : Véhicules: expériences en psychologie synthétique, 171, Presses Polytechniques Romandes, Lausanne, Switzerland, (1991). ISBN: 2-88074-223-4
•	Braitenberg V : Il cervello e le idee: saggi sull‘intelligenza, il linguaggio, la scienza, 231, Garzanti, Milano, Italy, (1989). ISBN: 88-11-59272-0
•	Braitenberg V : Gescheit sein: und andere unwissenschaftliche Essays, 185, Haffmans, Zürich, Switzerland, (1987). ISBN: 3-251-00112-4
•	Braitenberg V : Künstliche Wesen, 232, Tetsugaku Shobo, Tokyo, Japan, (1987). ISBN: 4-88679-013-5, Japanisch
•	Braitenberg V : Künstliche Wesen: Verhalten kybernetischer Vehikel, 147, Vieweg, Braunschweig, Germany, (1986). ISBN: 3-528-08949-0
•	Braitenberg V : I veicoli pensanti: saggio di psicologia sintetica, 127, Garzanti, Milano, Italy, (1984).
•	Braitenberg V : Vehicles: experiments in synthetic psychology, 152, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, (1984). ISBN: 0-262-02208-7
•	Braitenberg V : I tessuti intelligenti, 167, Paolo Boringhieri, Torino, Italy, (1980). ISBN: 88-339-0076-2
•	Braitenberg V : On the Texture of Brains: An introduction to neuroanatomy for the cybernetically minded, 127, Springer, New York, NY, USA, (1977). ISBN: 0-387-08391-X
•	Braitenberg V : Gehirngespinste: Neuroanatomie für kybernetisch Interessierte, 137, Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1973). ISBN: 3-540-06055-3
•	Kemali M and Braitenberg V : Atlas of the frog‘s brain, 74, Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1969).
Proceedings (2):
•	Braitenberg V and Selvatico D : Il Laboratorio di scienze cognitive dell'Università degli studi di Trento: Saggi e Lavori, Novembre 1999 - Dicembre 2000, -, 628, Università degli studi di Trento, Trento, Italy, (2003). -
•	Braitenberg V and Caianiello ER : Ricerche teoriche e sperimentali di cibernetica svolte nell'anno accademico 1961-1962 nel Laboritorio di cibernetica presso l'Istitutio di fisica teorica dell'Università di Napoli, -, 71, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italy, (1964). -
Articles (65):
•	Braitenberg V (December-2002) In Defense of the Cerebellum Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 978 175-183.
•	Heck D , Sultan F and Braitenberg V (June-2001) Sequential stimulation of rat cerebellar granular layer in vivo: Further evidence of a "tidal-wave" timing mechanism in the cerebellum Neurocomputing 38-40 641-646.
•	Braitenberg V (January-2001) Brain size and number of neurons: An exercise in synthetic neuroanatomy. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 10(1) 71-77.
•	Braitenberg V (2001) Thoughts on the neuronal hardware of language Cognitive Processing 2(2-3) 263-278.
•	Braitenberg V (2000) Informationsbiologie (Wenn ich heute Postdoc wäre ...) Laborjournal 9 18-20.
•	Braitenberg V (October-1998) Selection, the Impersonal Engineer Artificial Life 4(4) 309-310.
•	Braitenberg V , Heck D and Sultan F (June-1997) The detection and generation of sequences as a key to cerebellar function: experiments and theory Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20(2) 229-245.
•	Braitenberg V , Heck D and Sultan F (June-1997) Waiting for the ultimate theory of the cerebellum Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20(2) 267-271.
•	Braitenberg V (April-1997) Searching for language mechanisms in the brain Cybernetics and Systems 28(3) 187-213.
•	Braitenberg V (October-1993) L‘imitazione degli automi naturali Sistemi e Impresa 39(10) 13-15.
•	Sultan F and Braitenberg V (1993) Shapes and sizes of different mammalian cerebella: A study in quantitative comparative neuroanatomy Journal für Hirnforschung 34(1) 79-92.
•	Braitenberg V and Pulvermüller F (March-1992) Entwurf einer neurologischen Theorie der Sprache Naturwissenschaften 79(3) 103-117.
•	Braitenberg V and Preissl H (1992) Why is the output of the cerebellum inhibitory? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15 715-717.
•	Braitenberg V (January-1990) Reading the structure of brains Network 1(1) 1-11.
•	Braitenberg V (1990) La corteccia cerebrale come sede di memoria associativa Sistemi Intelligenti 2 213-227.
•	Braitenberg V and Schüz A (May-1989) Cortex: hohe Ordnung oder grösstmögliches Durcheinander? Spektrum der Wissenschaft 1989(5) 74-86.
•	Braitenberg V (1989) Der Wurm im Ich Kursbuch 95 39-45.
•	Braitenberg V (1988) Monistische Meditationen Kursbuch 91 161-171.
•	Braitenberg V (1986) Lalula: das Nichtverstandenwerden und die Sprache Kursbuch 84 52-56.
•	Braitenberg V (1986) Sieben Schnitte durch die Wissenschaft Das Fenster: Tiroler Kulturzeitschrift 1986 3863-3866.
•	Braitenberg V (1985) Gescheit sein! Kursbuch 80 1-9.