title: Vision research 1961-2011: retrospects and prospects on the 50th anniversary of vision research.
abstract: Viewing the trajectory of the discipline through the first half-century of VISION RESEARCH it is of interest to sketch what it is was like to conduct vision research at the time of the founding of the journal and counterpoise that with the situation at present. The most notable change has been the increase in the number of researchers, in the volume of publication and in the incorporation of computers into the research enterprise at every level. A few topics that were cutting-edge at the earlier time turned out to have led into culs-de-sac, others have been forgotten because their solution opened up new territories, others yet have remained unanswered, challenging researchers now as they did 50years ago.
authors.affiliation: Division of Neurobiology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3200, United States. gwestheimer@berkeley.edu
authors.forename: Gerald
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Westheimer
mesh_terms: D000846:Anniversaries and Special Events; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D012106:Research / Q000266:history; D014785:Vision, Ocular / Q000502:physiology*