Purves, Dale, Papers and Records, 1971-2003

Collection Number: MC.0046
Dale Purves Papers and Records, 1971 - 2003

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Contains University Administrative records. These include records of the officers of the University, as defined in the Bylaws, the deans of schools and colleges, and departments, institutes, and other offices as designated by the President. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the director of the office of record and the University Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the University Archivist. (Issued by the Office of the Chancellor, December 1, 1975).

Materials in boxes 130-141 must be screened for sensitive or confidential materials before they can be accessed.

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Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Dale Purves papers and records, Duke University Medical Center Archives.

Acquisitions Information

A2003-075; Transfer; 2003.

A2004-087; Transfer; 2004.

A2005-009; Transfer; 2005.

A2007-004; Transfer; 2007.

A2007-022; Transfer; 2007.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Collections may contain Medical Center Administrative records. These include records of the officers of the University, as defined in the Bylaws, the deans of schools and colleges, and departments, institutes, and other offices as designated by the President. For a period of twenty-five years from the origin of the material, permission in writing from the director of the office of record and the Medical Center Archivist is required for use. After twenty-five years, records that have been processed may be consulted with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist.

Collection may contain Records of the Board of Trustees of the Duke University Medical Center. These include minutes and supporting documentation of the Board, its Executive Committee, and standing and ad hoc committees, and reports, studies, and the like presented solely to the Board. Records which have been existence for at least fifty years are available for scholarly research with the permission of the Medical Center Archivist. Access to records which have been in existence for less than fifty years shall be granted only by special permission, in writing, of the Medical Center Board of Trustees.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings and Medical Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collectionsuch as folders or items.

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• Duke University--Faculty.
• Duke University. Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
• Duke University. Dept. of Neurobiology.
• Duke University. Medical Center.
• Duke University. School of Medicine.
• Education, Medical
• Neurobiology
• Neurosciences
• Visual Perception

Dale Purves, M.D., is the George Barth Geller Professor for Research in Neurobiology and the director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University Medical Center. He was chair of the Department of Neurobiology from 1999 to 2002. Dr. Purves' research focuses on the neurobiological underpinnings of visual perception, including the perception of brightness, color, orientation, motion and depth. He earned his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Purves completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard Medical School and University College London.

The Purves laboratory studies visual perception and its neurobiological underpinnings. Ongoing investigations include understanding the perception of brightness, color, orientation, motion, and depth. The unifying theme of these several projects is the hypothesis that visual percepts are generated according to a wholly empirical strategy that represents to the observer the empirical significance of the stimulus rather than its properties as such. The validity of this theory of vision is being explored by examining the responses of human subjects, the properties of virtual organisms that evolve in defined visual environments, and the response properties of visual cortical neurons in probabilistic terms. The work thus seeks to unite human psychophysics, computer modeling and animal studies to better understand vision. [from http://www.neuro.duke.edu/faculty/purves/].

Organized into the following series: A2003-077 and A2004-087: Correspondence, research, and administrative files, 1971-2003; A2005-009: Papers, abstracts, reviews and correspondence, 1998-2003; A2007-004: Grant materials, manuscript reviews, and PNAS records; A2007-022: Administrative and Teaching Binders, Media Files, 1990-2003.

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