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Publications

Title Co-authors Journal/Book Date Year
A mathematical theory of the affective psychoses. Pitts WH Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 5
1943
The path of suppression in the spinal grey matter. n/a Federation Proceedings 7(1 Pt):71 Mar
1948
Somatic functions of the central nervous system. McCulloch WS Annual Review of Physiology 10:117-32
1948
An electrical hypothesis of central inhibition and facilitation. McCulloch WS, Pitts WH, Dell, PC Proceedings of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases 30 Dec
1950
Positivity in ventral horn during bulbar reticular inhibition of motoneurons' McCulloch WS, Dell PC Federation Proceedings, 9(1) Mar 1950
Changes produced in the central nervous system by ultrasound. Wall PD, Fry WJ, Stephens R, Tucker D Science (NY) 114(2974):686-7 Dec 28
1951
Map of electrical current in the cord during a reflex. Wall PD, Pitts WH Transactions of the American Neurological Association 56:75-9
1951
Apomorphine in Parkinson's disease. Schwab RS, Amador LV Transactions of the American Neurological Association 56:251-3
1951
An electrical hypothesis of central inhibition and facilitation. McCulloch WS, Pitts WH, Dell PC Research Publications - Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease 30:87-97
1952
Sources and sinks of current in the spinal cord. Pitts WH, Brazier ? Federation Proceedings 11(1) Mar
1952
On microelectrodes for plotting currents in nervous tissue. Howland B, McCulloch WS, Pitts W, Wall PD The Journal of Physiology 122(Suppl):24-5P
1953
Comparaison entre les machines a calculer et le cerveau. McCulloch WS, Pitts WH, Dell PC Les machines à calculer et la pensée humaine 37:425-443
1953
Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology
 N/aThe Living Brain: W. Grey Walter. W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York, Volume 6:353-354  1954
Maps derived by bipolar microelectrode stimulation within the spinal cord. Pitts WH, McCulloch WS, Wall PD, Howland B Federation Proceedings 13() Mar
1954
Effects of strychnine with special reference to spinal afferent fibres. Wall PD, McCulloch WS, Pitts WH Epilepsia 4:29-40 Nov
1955
Physiology of a primary chemoreceptor unit. Hodgson ES, Roeder KD Science (NY) 122(3166):417-8 Sep 02
1955
Reflex inhibition by dorsal root interaction. Howland B, McCulloch WS, Pitts W, Wall PD Journal of Neurophysiology 18(1):1-17 Jan
1955
The terminal arborisation of the cat's pyramidal tract determined by a new technique. Wall PD, McCulloch WS, Pitts WH The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 28(3-4):457-64
1955
Excitability changes in anatomical components of the monosynaptic are following tetanic stimulation. McCulloch WS, Pitts WH Federation Proceedings 15(1) Mar
1956
Limits on nerve impulse transmission. Wall PD, Pitts WH, McCulloch WS IRE Convention Record, National, Part 4:19-20 Mar
1956
Central effects of strychnine on spinal afferent fibres. Wall PD, Pitts WH, McCulloch WS AMA Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry 75: 323-324
1956
Footnotes on a headstage, Howland B, Gesteland RC IRE Transactions on Medical Electronics
1956-7
Evidence that cut optic nerve fibers in a frog regenerate to their proper places in the tectum. Maturana HR, McCulloch WS, Pitts WH Science 130(3390) Dec
1956
Membrane currents in clamped vertebrate nerve. DelCastillo J, McCulloch WS, Pitts W Nature 180(4597):1290-1 Dec 07
1957
How seen movement appears in the frog's optic nerve. Maturana HR, McCulloch WS, Pitts WH Federation Proceedings 18(1) Mar
1959
What the frog's eye tells the frog's brain. Maturana HR, McCulloch WS, Pitts WH Proceedings of the IRE 47(11) Nov
1959
Comments on microelectrodes. Gesteland RC, Howland B, Pitts WH Proceedings of the IRE 47(11) Nov
1959
Number of fibres in the optic nerve and the number of ganglion cells in the retina of anurans. Maturana HR Nature 183:1406-1407 May 16
1959
Bridge for measuring the impedance of metal microelectrodes. Gesteland RC, Howland B The Review of Scientific Instruments 30(4) Apr 1959
Anatomy and physiology of vision in the frog (Rana pipiens). Maturana HR, McCulloch WS, Pitts WH The Journal of General Physiology 43(6)Suppl:129-75 Jul
1960
Two remarks on the visual system of the frog. Maturana HR, Pitts WH, McCulloch WS AFOSR TR. United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research 60-77:1-25 Apr
1960
Odor specificities of the frog's olfactory receptors. Gesteland RC, Pitts WH, Rojas ? Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste (Pergamon Press)
1963
Caesium Ions Do Not Pass the Membrane of the Giant Axon. Pickard WF, Moore JW, Takata M, Pooler J, Bernstein T Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 52:1177-83 Nov
1964
A Theory of Passive Ion Flux Through Axon Membranes. Pickard WF, McCulloch WS, Pitts WH Nature 202:1338-9 Jun 27
1964
Microelectrodes research laboratory of electronics. Gesteland RC, Howland B, Pitts WH MIT Encyclopedia of Electrochemistry (Reinhold Publishing Corporation: New York) :822-826
1964
Receptor model of the frog's nose. Gesteland RC NEREM Record
1964
Lanthanum simulates high calcium and reduces conductance changes in nerve membranes. Moore ?. Takata ?, Pickard WF XXIII International Congress of Physiological Sciences
1964
Passive transport of ions across nerve membranes. Pickard WF Minutes of the APS-NES 1964 Spring Meeting of the New England Section Apr 1964
Experiments in perception. n/a Tech Engineering News Nov 1964
Chemical transmission in the nose of the frog. Gesteland RC, Pitts WH The Journal of physiology 181(3):525-59 Dec
1965
Octopus Optic Responses. Boycott BB, Maturana HR, Wall PD Experimental neurology 12:247-56 Jul
1965
Speculations on smell. Gesteland RC Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 30:217-25
1965
General discussion: early receptor potential. Platt JR, Wald G, Brown KT Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 30:501-4
1965
Glass-coated tungsten microelectrodes. Baldwin HA, Frenk S Science 148(3676):1462-1464
1965





Ionic conductance changes in lobster axon membrane when lanthanum is substituted for calcium. Takata M, Pickard WF, Moore JW The Journal of General Physiology 50(2):461-71 Nov
1966
Alkali cation selectivity of squid axon membrane. Moore JW, Anderson N, Blaustein M, Takata M, Pickard WF, Bernstein T, Pooler J Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 137(2):818-29 Jul 14
1966
A demonstration of ion-exchange phenomena in phospholipid mono-molecular films. Rojas E, Pickard WF Nature 209(5026):886-7 Feb 26
1966
You can't even step in the same river once. n/a Natural History 76(6) Oct 1967
A code in the nose. Gesteland R, Pitts WH, Chung SH Cybernetic Problems in Bionics (Gordon and Breach Science Publishers)
1968
Pure renaissance. n/a Natural History 77():62 Jun-Jul 1968
The annotated octopus. Sokolski ? (Author) notes by Lettvin Natural History 78(9):10
1969
Multiple meaning in single visual units. Chung SH, Raymond SA Brain, Behavior and Evolution 3(1):72-101
1970
The rise and fall of progress. n/a Natural History 79(3):80-82 Mar 1970
Scratched and chiseled marks of man. n/a Natural History 81()
1972
Proceedings: The CLOOGE: a simple device for interspike interval analysis. Chung SH, Raymond SA The Journal of Physiology 239(2):63P-66P Jun
1974
Probability of conduction deficit as related to fiber length in random-distribution models of peripheral neuropathies. Waxman SG, Brill MH, Geschwind N, Sabin TD Journal of the Neurological Sciences 29(1):39-53 Sep
1976
A physical model for the passage of ions through an ion-specific channel - I. The sodium-like channel. Pickard WF Mathematical Biosciences 32:37-50
1976
The use of myth. n/a Technology Review 78(7):52-57
1976
On seeing sidelong. n/a The Sciences 16(4) Jul-Aug 1976
The gorgon's eye. n/a Technology Review 80(2):74-83
1977
Relation of the epsilon-wave to ganglion cell activity and rod responses in the frog. Newman EA Vision Research 18(9):1181-8
1978
Freedoms and constraints in color vision. Linden ? Brain Theory Newsletter 3(2) Dec 1978
Aftereffects of activity in peripheral axons as a clue to nervous coding. Raymond S Physiology and Pathobiology of Axons, edited by Waxman (Raven Press: New York)
1978
Anatomy and physiology of a binocular system in the frog Rana pipiens. Gruberg ER Brain Research 192(2):313-25 Jun 23
1980
1981 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine. n/a Science (NY) 214(4520):517-20 Oct 30
1981

 Dolphins and the Bends

Gruberg E, Rose RM, Plotkin G

Science 216(4546):650 - 651 May 07
 1982
Processing of polarized light by squid photoreceptors. Saidel WM, MacNichol EF Nature 304(5926):534-6
1983
The colors of things. Brou P, Sciascia TR, Linden L, Scientific American 255(3):84-92 Sep
1986
Enhancing the perception of form in peripheral vision. Geiger G Perception 15(2):119-30
1986
Peripheral vision in persons with dyslexia. Geiger G The New England Journal of Medicine 316(20):1238-43 May 14
1987
Sources of electrical transients in tectal neuropil of the frog, Rana pipiens. Grant AC Brain Research 560(1-2):106-21 Sep 27
1991
Task-determined strategies of visual process. Geiger G, Zegarra-Moran O Brain Research. Cognitive brain research 1(1):39-52 Jun
1992
Dyslexic children learn a new visual strategy for reading: a controlled experiment. Geiger G, Fahle M Vision Research 34(9):1223-33 May
1994
Functional properties of regenerated optic axons terminating in the primary olfactory cortex. Scalia F, Grant AC, Reyes M Brain Research 685(1-2):187-97 Jul 10
1995
Concentration and storage of biotin in the amphibian brain. Eisner S, Harris E, Galoyan SM, Scalia F The Journal of Comparative Neurology 368(3):455-66 May 06
1996
A compartment-based, asymmetric representation of the retina in an induced projection to the olfactory cortex. Scalia F, Eisner S, Galoyan SM, Harris E, Su W The Journal of Comparative Neurology 383(4):415-27 Jul 14
1997
Selective, unilateral, reversible loss of behavioral responses to looming stimuli after injection of tetrodotoxin of cadmium chloride into the frog optic nerve. King JG, Gruberg ED Brain research 841(1-2):20-6 Sep 11
1999