Neural Control of Behavior (eBook)

Front Cover 1
The Neural Control of Behavior 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 10
PREFACE 12
GUESTS OF THE DEPARTMENT 14
THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOBIOLOGY: 1968 16
SECTION I: NEURAL MECHANISMS 18
CHAPTER 1. MODE OF CONTROL OF HIPPOCAMPAL PYRAMIDAL CELL DISCHARGES 20
I. Methods 22
II. Results 22
REFERENCES 37
CHAPTER 2. EVOKED RESPONSES AND NETWORK DYNAMICS 44
I. Introduction 44
II. Methods 45
III. Results 51
IV. Discussion 64
V. Summary 68
REFERENCES 69
CHAPTER 3. RELATIONS BETWEEN EVOKED GROSS AND UNIT ACTIVITY IN ASSOCIATION CORTEX OF WAKING CAT 72
REFERENCES 78
DISCUSSION 80
SECTION II: PERCEPTUAL MECHANISMS 92
CHAPTER 4. THE ROLE OF PHOTOPIGMENTS IN VISION 94
I. Stereospecificity of the Visual Pigment System 96
REFERENCES 112
Addendum to the Text 115
REFERENCES 117
Question and Answer 118
CHAPTER 5. BEHAVIORAL AND CELLULAR RESPONSES TO NOVEL AND REPEATED STIMULI 120
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 142
REFERENCES 143
REFERENCES FOR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 144
Questions and Answers 145
SECTION III: MOTIVATIONAL SYSTEMS 150
CHAPTER 6. NEURAL MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN A CAT'S ATTACK ON A RAT 152
I. Introduction 152
II. Behavioral Aspects of Attack 154
III. Attack in Relation to Flight and Eating 157
IV. Neural Mechanisms Underlying Attack 161
V. General Outline of the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Attack 185
REFERENCES 188
CHAPTER 7. HYPOTHALAMIC MECHANISMS FOR MOTIVATIONAL AND SPECIES-TYPICAL BEHAVIOR 192
I. Introduction 192
II. Behavioral Properties of Centrally Induced Motivational and Species-Typical Responses 194
III. Development of Centrally Induced Motivational and Species-Typical Responses 199
IV. Organization of Brain Mechanisms for Motivational and Species-Typical Responses 201
V. Summary and Conclusions 216
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 220
REFERENCES 220
Questions for Dr. Flynn and Dr. Roberts 224
SECTION IV: LEARNING AND MEMORY 226
CHAPTER 8. THE REUNIFIED SPLIT BRAIN 228
I. Introduction 228
II. Lateralization of Engrains Acquired during Unilateral CSD 230
III. Interhemispheric Transfer of Lateralized Engrams 234
IV. Interhemispheric Synthesis of Lateralized Engrams 244
V. Synthesis of Synergistic Experiences 248
VI. Conclusion 252
REFERENCES 253
CHAPTER 9. VISUAL MEMORY AND THE TEMPORAL LOBE OF THE MONKEY 256
REFERENCES 272
CHAPTER 10. THE BEHAVIOR OF HIPPOCAMPAL NEURONS DURING CONDITIONING EXPERIMENTS 274
I. The Quiet Waiting Experiment 275
II. The Pavlovian Conditioning Experiments 285
III. Résumé 294
IV. The Hippocampus as a Processor 295
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 309
REFERENCES 309
GENERAL DISCUSSION 312
SUBJECT INDEX 318