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I enjoy studying the brain, a passion I inherited from my Italian mentors (Lamberto Maffei and Adriana Fiorentini) and Australian colleagues (John Ross and David Burr) when I was a young physics student. Looking back on the development of my career, I believe that my motivation in pursuing challenging research came from the great excitement that arose when we were close to understanding a problem. When this happened, I did not care whether I was without a real job or that I lacked the recognition I deserved as a female scientist in a highly competitive, male-dominated field. This professional joy, mixed also with family joys, such as being married to a scientist with whom I shared the same passion, was my strength. In this review, I briefly outline the values instilled by my family, teachers, peers, and research tutors, from the perspective of a woman from then-underdeveloped Southern Italy approaching a science career in the 1970s.
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The Annual Review of Vision Science reviews progress in the visual sciences, a cross-cutting set of disciplines which intersect psychology, neuroscience, computer science, cell biology and genetics, and clinical medicine. The journal covers a broad range of topics and techniques, including optics, retina, central visual processing, visual perception, eye movements, visual development, vision models, computer vision, and the mechanisms of visual disease, dysfunction, and sight restoration. The study of vision is central to progress in many areas of science, and this new journal will explore and expose the connections that link it to biology, behavior, computation, engineering, and medicine.
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