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[Calin-Jageman, Robert via FUN_Mail]

From: Shawn Gallagher [mailto:Shawn.Gallagher at millersville.edu] 
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Hello All

Thanks for all the suggestions. I agree with Christopher's recommendation and if Bill Saidel (who can make Woods metal electrodes while blindfolded) is still on this list, perhaps he can confirm that the paper won Jerry the infamous Golden Fleece award. How's that for irony?

As a vision person I still geek out over photosensitive RGCs (below) and use this paper for discussing anything from single-cell recording to hypothalamus to blindsight. (Sorry if this is a repeat. I'm still catching up.)

Cheers,
Shawn

Berson, D.M., Dunn, F., and Takao, M. Phototransduction by retinal ganglion cells that set the circadian clock. Science, 295: 1070-1073, 2002.
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More old school:

Lettvin JY, Maturana HR, McCulloch WS, Pitts WH (1959)  What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain.  Proc Inst Radio Engr 47 (11): 1940-1951.

Amazing in value of the data and inferences given the seeming simplicity of the experiments.  At the time seen by some as an irreverent approach (typical for Lettvin), now a classic for what's become 'neuroethology'.  Transformative.  Great for UG discussions on weighing low-tech vs high-tech experiments in context of fundamental questions, too.

It is fun (!) to see other familiar names sending stuff in!
Christopher

Christopher Platt, Ph.D.
Central Pathways for Hearing & Balance
National Institute on Deafness & Other
   Communication Disorders
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301-496-1804; plattc at nidcd.nih.gov