Neuroscience timeline

A short arc from localization to imaging and causal tools.

1900sDawn of localization

From Broca and Wernicke to cortical maps.

1950sCells and columns

Hubel–Wiesel, Penfield, single-unit recording.

1990sImaging boom

fMRI and PET open the network era.

2010sCause and wiring

Optogenetics, connectomics, large-scale data.