Jerome Y. Lettvin

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On-Line Papers
What The Frogs Eye Tells The Frogs Brain.pdf

Two Remarks On The Visual System Of The Frog.pdf

Sources Of Electrical Transients In Tectal Neuropil Of The Frog Rana Pipiens.pdf

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Published Papers

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1 1943 A MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF THE AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSES Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics Volume 5 Pitts

2 1948 SOMATIC FUNCTIONS OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM Annual Review of Physiology Vol. X McCulloch

3 1948 The path of suppression in the spinal grey matter Federation Proceedings Vol. 7, No. 1, March McCulloch

4 1950 AN ELECTRICAL HYPOTHESIS OF CENTRAL INHIBITION AND FACILITATION Proceedings of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases Vol. XXX, December McCulloch, Pitts, Dell

5 1950 Positivity in ventral horn during bulbar reticular inhibition of motoneurons Federation Proceedings Vol. 9, No. 1, March Dell, McCulloch

6 1951 Changes Produced in the Central Nervous System by Ultrasound Science Vol. 114, No. 2974 Wall, Fry, Stephens, Tucker

7 1952 Sources and sinks of current in the spinal cord Federation Proceedings Vol. 11, No. 1, March Pitts, Brazier

8 1953 Comparaison entre les Machines a Calculer et le Cerveau Les machines à calculer et la pensée humaine XXXVII, Page 425-443 McCulloch, Pitts, Dell

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10 1953 On Microelectrodes for Plotting Currents in Nervous Tissue Proceedings of the Physiological Society Vol. 122 Howland, McCulloch, Pitts, Wall

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13 1954 Maps derived by bipolar microelectrode stimulation within the spinal cord Federation Proceedings Vol. 13, March Pitts, McCulloch, Wall, Howland

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15 1955 Physiology of a Primary Chemoreceptor Unit Science Vol. 122, No. 3166, September Hodgson, Roeder

16 1955 Reflex Inhibition by Dorsal Root Interaction J. Neurophysiol. 18 Howland, McCulloch, Pitts, Wall

17 1955 Effects of Strychnine with Special Reference to Spinal Afferent Fibres Epilepsia Series III, Vol. 4 Wall, McCulloch, Pitts

18 1955 The Terminal Arborisation of the Cat's Pyramidal Tract Determined by a New Technique The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine Vol. 28, Nos. 3-4, Dec.-Feb. Wall, McCulloch, Pitts

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20 1956 Excitability changes in anatomical components of the monosynaptic are following tetanic stimulation Federation Proceedings Vol. 15, No. 1, March McCulloch, Pitts

21 1956 Limits on Nerve Impulse Transmission IRE Convention Record, National Part 4, March 19-20 Wall, Pitts, McCulloch

22 1956 Central Effects of Strychnine on Spinal Afferent Fibres A.M.A. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry Vol. 75: 323-324 McCulloch, Pitts, Wall

23 1957 Membrane Currents in Clamped Vertebrate Nerve Nature Vol. 180, pp. 1290-1291, Dec. 7 McCulloch, Pitts

24 1956
1957 Footnotes on a Headstage IRE Transactions on Medical Electronics ? Howland, Gesteland

25 1956 Evidence That Cut Optic Nerve Fibers in a Frog Regenerate to Their Proper Places in the Tectum Science Vol. 130, No. 3390, December Maturana, McCulloch, Pitts

26 1959 How Seen Movement Appears in the Frog's Optic Nerve Federation Proceedings Vol. 18, No. 1, March Maturana, Pitts, McCulloch

27 1959 What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain Proceedings of the IRE Vol. 47, No. 11, November Maturana, McCulloch, Pitts

28 1959 Comments on Microelectrodes Proceedings of the IRE Vol. 47, No. 11, November Gesteland, Howland, Pitts

?? 1959 Number of Fibres in the Optic Nerve and the Number of Ganglion Cells in the Retina of Anurans Nature Vol. 183, pp. 1406-1407, May 16 Maturana

?? 1959 Bridge for Measuring the Impedance of Metal Microelectrodes The Review of Scientific Instruments Vol. 30, No. 4, April Gesteland, Howland

?? 1960 Anatomy and Physiology of Vision in the Frog (Rana Pipiens) The Journal of General Physiology Vol. 43, No. 6, Supplement pp. 129-175 Maturana, McCulloch, Pitts

30 1961 Two Remarks on the Visual System of the Frog Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT 38 Maturana, Pitts, McCulloch

31 1963 Odor Specificites of the Frog's Olfactory Receptors Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste Pergamon Press Gesteland, Pitts, Rojas

32 1964 A Theory of Passive Ion Flux through Axon Membranes Nature Vol. 202, No. 4939,pp. 1338-1339, June Pickard, McCulloch, Pitts

33 1964 Microelectrodes Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, NY, pages 822-826 Gesteland, Howland, Pitts

34* 1964 Receptor Model of the Frog's Nose NEREM Record Issue Gesteland

35 1964 Caesium Ions do not pass the Membrane of the Giant Axon Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 52, No. 5, pp. 1177-1183 Pickard, Moore, Takata, Pooler, Bernstein

36 1964? Lanthanum Simulates High Calcium and reduces Conductance Changes in Nerve Membranes XXIII International Congress of Physiological Sciences Moore, Takata, Pickard

37 1964 Passive Transport of Ions across Nerve Membranes Minutes of the APS-NES 1964 Spring Meeting of the New England Section 4 April Pickard

38 1964 Experiments in Perception Tech Engineering News November Contributors

39 1965 Chemical Transmission in the Nose of the Frog J. Physiol. 181, pp. 525-559 Gesteland, Pitts

40 1965 Octopus Optic Responses Experimental Neurology Vol. 12, No. 3, July Boycott, Maturana, Wall

41 1965 Glass-Coated Tungsten Microelectrodes Science Vol. 148, No.3676, pages 1462-1464 Baldwin, Frenk

42 1965 Speculations on Smell Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology Vol. XXX Gesteland

43 1965 General Discussion: Early Receptor Potential Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology XXX Platt, Wald, Brown

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45 1966 Ionic Conductance Changes in Lobster Axon Membrane When Lanthanum Is Substituted for Calcium Journal of General Physiology Vol. 50, Number 2, November Takata, Pickard, Moore

46 1966 Alkali Cation Selectivity of a Squid Axon Membrane N.Y. Academy of Sciences 137, pg. 818-829 Moore, Anderson, Blaustein, Takata, Pickard, Bernstein, Pooler

47 1966 A Demonstration of Ion-Exchange Phenomena in Phospholipid Mono-Molecular Films Nature Vol. 209, No. 5026, pp. 886-887, February Rojas, Pickard

48 1967 You Can't Even Step in the Same River Once Journal of the American Museum of Natural History Vol. LXXVI, No. 8, October Contributors

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52 1966 A Code in the Nose Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Inc. 1968 Cybernetic Problems in Bionics, Bionics Symposium Gesteland, Pitts, Chung

53 1968 The Generative Caduceus and other letters to the Press

?? 1968 Pure Renaissance Natural History June-July, pg. 62

?? 1969 The Annotated Octopus Natural History LXXVIII, No. 9, pg. 10 Author: Sokolski (notes by Lettvin)

?? 1969 Title Various letters Various Newspapers

55 1970 Multiple Meaning in Single Visual Units Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 3, 72-101 Chung, Raymond

1970 The Rise and Fall of Progress Natural History LXXIX, No. 3, 80-82, March

57 1972 Scratched and Chiseled Marks of Man Natural History

58 1974 The CLOOGE: a simple device for interspike interval analysis Proceedings of the Physiological Society 239, pg. 63-66, February Chung, Raymond

59 1975 Leibniz

60 1976 A Physical Model for the Passage of Ions through an Ion-Specific Channel - I. The Sodium-like Channel Mathematical Biosciences 32, pg 37-50 Pickard

61 1976 Probability of Conduction Deficit as Related to Fiber Length in Random-Distribution Models of Peripheral Neuropathies Journal of the Neurological Sciences 29, pg. 39-53 Waxman, Brill, Geschwind, Sabin

62* 1976 The Use of Myth Technology Review 78(7), pg. 52-57

63 1976 On Seeing Sidelong The Sciences Vol. 16, No. 4, July/August

64 1977 The Gorgon's Eye Technology Review 80(2), pg. 74-83

65 1977 Freedoms and Constraints in Color Vision Brain Theory Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2, December Linden

66 1978 Aftereffects of Activity in Peripheral Axons as a Clue to Nervous Coding Physiology and Pathobiology of Axons, edited by Waxman Raven Press, NY Raymond

67 1978 Relation of the e-Wave to Ganglion Cell Activity and Rod Responses in the Frog Vision Research Vol. 18, pp. 1181-1188 Newman

68 1980 Anatomy and Physiology of a Binocular System in the Frog Rana Pipiens Brain Research 192(1980), pg. 313-325 Gruberg

??* 1983 Processing of Polarized Light by Squid Photoreceptors Nature 304:534-536 Saidel, W.M., MacNichol, E.F. jr.

69* 1986 The Colors of Things Scientific American 255.3, pg. 84-91 Brou, Philippe, Sciascia, Linden

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