14 Facts About Valentino Braitenberg

Valentino Braitenberg was an Italian neuroscientist and cyberneticist.

Valentino Braitenberg was a former director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tubingen, Germany.

Valentino Braitenberg's pioneering scientific work was concerned with the relationship between structures and functions of the brain.

Valentino Braitenberg grew up in the province of South Tyrol.

Since the age of 6, Valentino Braitenberg grew up bilingual in the two languages Italian and German.

Valentino Braitenberg studied Medicine and Psychiatry at the University of Innsbruck and the University of Rome between 1945 and 1954.

Valentino Braitenberg accompanied his studies with chamber music performances with his viola and violin, where he developed a repertoire of violin-piano duos with a colleague.

Valentino Braitenberg completed his medical training with an internship at the psychiatric clinic in Rome, where he decided to prefer a scientific career dedicated to the understanding of brain functions.

Valentino Braitenberg spent a few years at Yale University in New Haven when he was invited by Prof.

In 1963 Valentino Braitenberg earned the Libera docenza in Cybernetics and Information Theory, the title that used to grant access to Professorship at Italian Universities.

Valentino Braitenberg received an honorary doctorate from the University of Salzburg in 1995.

Valentino Braitenberg said that although the connections seemed unbelievably complex, Braitenberg eventually realised that computers could serve as a useful model for understanding the brain.

Valentino Braitenberg said that he made seminal contributions to understanding the neuroanatomy of the cerebellum, the wiring of the eye of the fly, and the organisation of the human cerebrum.

Valentino Braitenberg published more than 180 scientific works during his lifetime, not including abstracts, reprints, translations into different languages, and different editions of some of his works.