A Ferrier Lecture é uma palestra da Royal Society ministrada a cada três anos "sobre um assunto relacionado ao avanço do conhecimento natural sobre a estrutura e função do sistema nervoso". Foi criada em 1928 para homenagear a memória de Sir David Ferrier, um neurologista que foi o primeiro cientista britânico a estimular eletronicamente o cérebro para fins de estudo científico.
Em seus 90 anos de história a Lecture foi ministrada 30 vezes. Nunca foi apresentada mais de uma vez pela mesma pessoa. A primeira mulher a receber a honra foi Christine Holt, em 2017. A primeira Lecture foi proferida em 1929 por Charles Scott Sherrington e foi intitulada "Alguns problemas funcionais associados à convergência". Em 1971 a Lecture foi proferida por dois indivíduos (David Hubel e Torsten Wiesel) sobre o mesmo tópico, com o título "A função e a arquitetura do córtex visual".
Lista de Lecturers AnoNomeTítuloNotas1929"Some functional problems attaching to convergence"1932"Some correlations between skull and brain" 1935"Problems connected with the principle of humeral transmission of nervous impulses" –1938"Some problems of localization in the central nervous system"1941"Fatigue following highly skilled work"1944"The organization of the visual cortex in man"1947"Some observations of the cerebral cortex of Man"1950"Growth and plasticity in the nervous system" –1953"The contribution of clinical observation to cerebral physiology"1956"Inquiries into the anatomical basis of olfactory discrimination"1959"The nature of central inhibitory action"1962"Visual adaptation"1965"Physiological properties of vertebrate and invertebrate neurological cells and the movement of substances through the nervous system"1968"Studies of a primates brain and hand"1971 e Torsten Wiesel"The function and architecture of the visual cortex"1974"Body temperature and fever, changes in our views during the last decade"1977"The neuron network of the cerebral cortex, a functional interpretation"1980"Cerebral cortex and the design of the eye" –1983"Amino acids and peptides: fast and slow chemical signals in the nervous system" –1986"The actions of parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves in human micturition, erection and seminal emission, and their restoration in paraplegic patients by implanted electrical stimulators" –1989 "Side glances at blindsight, recent approaches to implicit discrimination in human cortical blindness"1992"Seeing depth with two eyes, stereopsis"1995"Behind the scene: an exploration of the visual brain"1998"The nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and synaptic plasticity"2001"Patterning the embryonic brain" –2004"Magnetic brain stimulation: what can it tell us about brain function?"2007"Brain development and brain repair: Molecules and mechanisms that control neuronal wiring" –2010"Plasticity of the brain: the key to human development, cognition and evolution"2013"cognitive neuroscience, especially on the role of the hippocampus, and the mechanisms supporting memory and cognition"2017"understanding of the key molecular mechanisms involved in nerve growth, guidance and targeting which has revolutionised our knowledge of growing axon tips"2019 "for his work charting the brain activity related to fundamental aspects of human conduct and behaviour"
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