Wingate Richard, Kwint Marius
Medical Research Council Centre for Developmental Neurobiology, King's College London, 4th floor New Hunt's House, Guy's Campus, London SE1 1UL, UK.
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2006 Sep;7(9):745-52. doi: 10.1038/nrn1973.
Images of the exquisitely formed apparatus of the nervous system have great potential to capture the imagination. However, the fascinating complexity and diversity of neuronal form has only rarely been celebrated in broader visual culture. We discuss how scientific and cultural practices at the time of the neuron's discovery generated a legacy of schematic and simplified popular neuronal imagery, which is only now being revised in the light of technological advances and a changing artistic climate.
神经系统结构精巧的图像极有可能激发人们的想象力。然而，神经元形态令人着迷的复杂性和多样性在更广泛的视觉文化中却很少得到颂扬。我们探讨了神经元发现时期的科学和文化实践如何产生了一种模式化且简化的大众神经元图像遗产，而如今，鉴于技术进步和不断变化的艺术氛围，这种遗产正在被修正。
