Readings
Computer and Electronic Simulations (weeks 1-3)
Armstrong, C.M. (1993) Sodium and potassium channels and propagation of the nerve impulse: A tribute to Cole and Hodgkin. In: The Biological Century. Barlow, R., Dowling, J., Weissmann, G., eds. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), pp. 150-172.
Hodgkin, A.L. (1963) The ionic basis of nervous conduction. Nobel Lecture, Dec.11, 1963.
Huxley, A.F. (1963) The quantitative analysis of excitation and conduction in nerve. Nobel Lecture, Dec. 11, 1963.
Koester, J. (2000). Appendix A. Current Flow in Neurons. In: E.R. Kandel, J.H. Schwartz, and T.M. Jessell, Principles of Neural Science. McGraw-Hill, New York, pp. 1280-1287.
Koester, J. and Siegelbaum, S. (1995). Chapter 9. Local Signaling: Passive electrical properties of the neuron. In: E.R. Kandel, J.H. Schwartz, and T.M. Jessell, Essentials of Neural Science and Behavior. Appleton & Lange, Norwalk, CT, pp. 149-159.
Electric Fish (week 4)
Hopkins CD (1988) Neuroethology of electric communication. Annu Rev Neurosci. 11:497-535
Stoddard PK, Rasnow B, Assad C (1999) Electric Organ Discharges of the Gymnotiform Fishes: III. Brachyhypopomus. J Comp Physiol. 184(6): 609-630
Takizawa Y, Rose GJ, Kawasaki M (1999) Resolving Competing Theories for Control of the Jamming Avoidance Response: The Role of Amplitude Modulations in EOD Decelerations. J Exp Biol. 202:1377-1386
Frog Sciatic Nerve
Erlanger, J. (1947). Nobel Lecture. “Some observations on the responses of single nerve fibers.”
Gasser, H. S. (1947) Nobel Lecture. “Mammalian nerve fibers.”
Ruch et al. (1965). Neurophysiology. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, PA.
Crayfish Neuromuscular Junction
Dale, Sir H. (1936) Nobel Lecture. Some recent extensions of the chemical transmission of the effects of nerve impulses.
Kennedy, D. and Takeda, K. (1965). Reflex control of abdominal flexor muscles in the crayfish. J. Exp. Biol. 43: 229-246.
Loewi, O. (1936) Nobel Lecture. The chemical transmission of nerve action.
Rat Cochlea
Pickles, J.O. (1988) An introduction to the physiology of hearing (New York: Academic Press) pp. 68-77.
Purves, D. et al (2004) The Auditoy System. Neuroscience, 3rd edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, MA. pp. 283-303
Suga, N. and Jen, P.H.-S. (1975). Peripheral control of acoustic signals in the auditory system of echolocating bats. J. Exp. Biol. 62, 277-311.
Von Bekesy, G. (1961) Nobel Lecture. “Concerning the pleasures of observing, and the mechanics of the inner ear”.
Limulus Lateral Eye
Barlow, R.B. (1990) What the Brain Tells the Eye. Sci. Am. 262:90-95
Dowling, J.E. & Applebury, M.L. (1993) Establishing the Molecular Basis of Vision: Hecht and Wald. In: The Biological Century. Barlow, R., Dowling, J., Weissmann, G., eds. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), pp. 174-201
Hartline H.K. (1967) Visual receptors and retinal interaction. Nobel Lecture
Sheperd, G.M. (1988) Vision. In: Neurobiology (New York: Oxford Univ. Press), pp. 326-343.
Frog Optic Tectum
Barlow, R.B. and Wiesel, T. (1993) Neural Mechanisms of Visual Perception: The Legacy of Hartline and Kuffler. In: The Biological Century. Barlow, R., Dowling, J., Weissmann, G., eds. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press), pp. 202-234.
Ewert, J.P. (1974) The Neural Basis of Visually Guided Behavior. Sci. Am., 230: 34-42
Gaze, R.M. and Keating, M.J. (1967) Visual responses from ipsilateral tectal units in the frog. J. Physiol. (Lond.) 192: 52-53.
Hubel, D. (1981) Evolution of ideas on the primary visual cortex, 1955-1978 : A biased historical account. Nobel lecture.
Lettvin, J.Y. et al. (1971) Two remarks on the visual system of the frog. In Sensory Communication, ed. W.A. Rosenblith, 757-777.
Lettvin, et al. (1971) What the Frog's eye tells the Frog's Brain
Wiesel, T. (1981) The postnatal development of the visual cortex and the influence of environment. Nobel lecture.
Human Psychophysics
Gescheider, G. A. (1997). Chapter 1. Psychophysical measurement of thresholds: differential sensitivity. In: G. A. Gescheider, Psychophysics: the Fundamentals. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 1-15.
Gescheider, G. A. (1997). Chapter 2. Psychophysical measurement of thresholds: absolute sensitivity. In: G. A. Gescheider, Psychophysics: the Fundamentals. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 16-44.
