Talk:David Marr (neuroscientist)

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Just to clarify, is this the David Marr who is a professor of Vietnamese history at the Australian National University, or some other David Marr?? JackofOz 22:29, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Judging by what links here, it's a fellow involved in AI. - Hephaestos 22:55, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Oh,yes, I see now. Not the same guy, apparently. Thanks. JackofOz 00:55, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

Marr not a psychologist

Marr is not a psychologist! According to the text he has a BA in mathematics and did his PhD in neuroscience. Later he works on computational neuroscience. How does that make him a psychologist? --128.178.191.95 10:11, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Well, how about calling him a scientist. He is an important figure for the study of the visual system. His article ought not be deleted, but the link to a name might be set differently if consensus deems it fit. --Ancheta Wis 10:18, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Yeah that's reasonable - I want the history merged at both the article and the talk page before we can even think about moving it. The history has been merged in the article, not at this talk page. Someone did a cut and paste move of both the article and the talk page a while ago. Graham87 13:51, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

This talk page and the talk page at Talk:David Marr do not share any common text. Therefore, no history merge can be performed at the talk page. However, the article can have its history merged. Jesse Viviano 18:23, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

OK fair enough. I've just copied the text since the signatures provide attribution. As a side note, neither the history for talk:David Marr or the contributions of JackofOz during December 2003 record the first edit to the talk page. There must have been a server glitch. I've moved the comments of this page in chronological order and added headings.

As for the article title, I'd prefer David Marr (neuroscientist) as that is more specific and he is best known for his contributions to neuroscience. I'll move it there in a few days if there are no objections. However, I would still be happy with David Marr (scientist). Graham87 03:01, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

Moved to David Marr (neuroscientist). Graham87 04:13, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Founder of computational neuroscience

I don't know who is making the claim that he is the founder of computational neuroscience. Marr's work was very influential in both computational neuroscience and psychology, but he did not found the field. Some of the earliest papers on computational models of neural networks came out two years before Marr was born, such as the extremely influential papers by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts. Not to mention the work by Donald Hebb, which elaborated on computational principles that he thought contributed to how neurons learn. Unless somebody can justify this claim, I'm going to downgrade it from founder to being just a highly influential person. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.110.161.166 (talk) 02:16, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

I wouldn't describe Hebb as a computational neuroscientist, but in other respects I agree with you and approve of this change. Looie496 (talk) 02:31, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

The text still describes Marr as a psychologist, which he is not (a very, very different science). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.79.163.2 (talk) 17:03, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Currently he is not anything, since he is not alive. But as the article states, his position at MIT was in the Department of Psychology, so I think it it reasonable to refer to him as a psychologist. At the time he was working, it was very rare for neuroscience to be considered an independent discipline. Looie496 (talk) 21:31, 23 January 2012 (UTC)