# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vernon-benjamin-mountcastle
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:08:08.419Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vernon-benjamin-mountcastle"
name: "Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle"
slug: "vernon-benjamin-mountcastle"
description: "Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle was an American neurophysiologist and Professor Emeritus of Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral cortex in the 1950s. This discovery was a turning point in investigations of the cerebral cortex, as nearly all cortical studies of sensory function after Mountcastle's 1957 paper, on the somatosensory cortex, used columnar organization as their basis."
tagline: "American neuroscientist (1918–2015)"
gender: "male"
country:
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birthDate: "1918-07-15"
deathDate: "2015-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump