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How do Brains Work?

Papers of a Comparative Neurophysiologist

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Theodore Holmes Bullock

    1. Department of Neurosciences 0201, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

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Part of the book series: Contemporary Neuroscientists (CN)

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Table of contents (51 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Goals and Strategies in Brain Research: The Place of Comparative Neurology

    1. Goals and Strategies in Brain Research: The Place of Comparative Neurology

      • Theodore Holmes Bullock
      Pages 1-8

  3. Integration in the Neurons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-13
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    2. Mechanisms of Integration: What Parameters Control Output as Function of Input?

      • Theodore Holmes Bullock
      Pages 14-19

    3. Graded Signals: Is the All-Or-None Law Exceptional? Why Spikes?

      • Theodore Holmes Bullock
      Pages 20-24

    4. Codes in the Neurons: How is Information Represented in Brain Tissue?

      • Theodore Holmes Bullock
      Pages 25-30

    5. Reliability and Redundancy of Neurons: Can We Distinguish Probabilistic, Stochastic, and Noisy Processes?

      • Theodore Holmes Bullock
      Pages 31-43

    6. A Preparation for the Physiological Study of the Unit Synapse

      • Theodore Holmes Bullock
      Pages 44-45

    7. Measurement of Imposed Voltage Gradient Adequate to Modulate Neuronal Firing

      • C. A. Terzuolo, T. H. Bullock
      Pages 46-53

    8. Intracellular Recording from the Giant Synapse of the Squid

      • Theodore H. Bullock, Susumu Hagiwara
      Pages 54-66

    9. Diverse forms of Activity in the Somata of Spontaneous and Integrating Ganglion Cells

      • Theodore Holmes Bullock, Carlo A. Terzuolo
      Pages 67-90

    10. Neuron Doctrine and Electrophysiology

      • Theodore Holmes Bullock
      Pages 91-96

    11. Modulation of Activity of One Neuron by Subthreshold Slow Potentials in Another in Lobster Cardiac Ganglion

      • Akira Watanabe, Theodore H. Bullock
      Pages 97-111

    12. Pacemaker Neurons: Effects of Regularly Spaced Synaptic Input

      • Donald H. Perkel, Joseph H. Schulman, Theodore H. Bullock, George P. Moore, JosĂ© P. Segundo
      Pages 112-115

    13. Circuitry and Beyond: How Far Does Connectivity Get Us?

      • Theodore Holmes Bullock
      Pages 116-123

    14. Equivalence Sets: How Many Kinds of Nerve Cells Are There?

      • Theodore Holmes Bullock
      Pages 124-132

  4. Transduction and Reception as Models of Brain Mechanisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-137
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    2. Physiology of an Infrared Receptor: The Facial Pit of Pit Vipers

      • Theodore H. Bullock, Raymond B. Cowles
      Pages 138-139

    3. Evidence for a Category of Electroreceptors in the Lateral Line of Gymnotid Fishes

      • T. H. Bullock, S. Hagiwara, K. Kusano, K. Negishi
      Pages 140-140

    4. Further Analysis of Sensory Coding in Electroreceptors of Electric Fish

      • Theodore H. Bullock, Shiko Chichibu
      Pages 141-148
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"I'll bet it will tum out that brains use both mechanisms, in different centers. " Much of my waking life and that of many of my friends is spent racking our brains over how brains work. This book claims that good science is often a form of betting on the outcome of research-the stakes being time and reputation and someone's money. Some scientists, to be sure, claim they avoid leaning this way or that, in the name of keeping an open mind. I recommend making expectations explicit in order to design controls against unconscious influence, formulate alternative outcomes more clearly-and to add zest. Both the immediately upcoming experiment and the expected result of many long years of work by many people after one is gone are proper subjects for betting or the most informed and serious guessing. The working title for this collection of new and old papers was for some time "Betting on how brains work" and then "Betting on brains. " It goes without saying that the book will not answer the title question but will speak to it, in particular making a series of propositions that I think are more likely to be confirmed by future research than the alternatives we can presently recognize. It follows that a significant message, implied in many chapters of the book is this.

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  • Department of Neurosciences 0201, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

    Theodore Holmes Bullock

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