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The Man from Ironbark: a profile of Professor Jack Pettigrew FRS, flamboyant sensory systems researcher and recipient of the H Barry Collin Research Medal
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In the 1960s and 1970s, Pettigrew was an accomplished rock climber. His most notable climb came in 1965 when together with Bryden Allen,
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Pettigrew’s scientific work was recognized by several honours and awards, including becoming a Fellow of the
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Pettigrew showed evidence for a role for non-visual pathways in the phenomenon of developmental
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techniques to unravel principles of brain organization. He was the chief proponent of the
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as an assay for interhemispheric switching, whose rhythm is altered in
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Pettigrew was the first person to clarify the neurobiological basis of
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in 2001 for service to Australian society and science in phylogeny.
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Megabats, microbats and the most interesting gene in the genome
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Wagga Wagga
Kempton, Tasmania
University of Sydney
MBBS
neuroscientist
Physiology
Vision, Touch and Hearing Research Centre
University of Queensland
neuroscience
neuronal tracing
flying primate hypothesis
megabats
primates
stereopsis
binocular disparity
neuroplasticity
critical period
binocular rivalry
bipolar disorder
Royal Society of London
FRS
fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Centenary Medal
John Davis
Ball's Pyramid
stack


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