The Neural Control of Behavior

List of ContributorsPrefaceGuests of the DepartmentThe Department of Psychobiology: 1968Section I. Neural Mechanisms Mode of Control of Hippocampal Pyramidal Cell Discharges I. Methods II. Results References Discussion Evoked Responses and Network Dynamics I. Introduction II. Methods III. Results IV. Discussion V. Summary References Relations Between Evoked Gross and Unit Activity in Association Cortex of Waking Cat References DiscussionSection II. Perceptual Mechanisms The Role of Photopigments in Vision I. Stereospecificity of the Visual Pigment System References Addendum to the Text References Question and Answer Behavioral and Cellular Responses to Novel and Repeated Stimuli References Questions and AnswersSection III. Motivational Systems Neural Mechanisms Involved in a Cat's Attack on a Rat I. Introduction II. Behavioral Aspects of Attack III. Attack in Relation to Flight and Eating IV. Neural Mechanisms Underlying Attack V. General Outline of the Neural Mechanisms Underlying Attack References Hypothalamic Mechanisms for Motivational and Species-Typical Behavior I. Introduction II. Behavioral Properties of Centrally Induced Motivational and Species-Typical Responses III. Development of Centrally Induced Motivational and Species-Typical Responses IV. Organization of Brain Mechanisms for Motivational and Species-Typical Responses V. Summary and Conclusions References Questions for Dr. Flynn and Dr. RobertsSection IV. Learning and Memory The Reunified Split Brain I. Introduction II. Lateralization of Engrams Acquired During Unilateral CSD III. Interhemispheric Transfer of Lateralized Engrams IV. Interhemispheric Synthesis of Lateralized Engrams V. Synthesis of Synergistic Experiences VI. Conclusion References Visual Memory and the Temporal Lobe of the Monkey References The Behavior of Hippocampal Neurons During Conditioning Experiments I. The Quiet Waiting Experiment II. The Pavlovian Conditioning Experiments III. Résumé IV. The Hippocampus as a Processor References General DiscussionSubject Index