Re:[tips] Mind of a mnemonist (canine version)

[Allen Esterson]

Stephen Black wrote:
>http://tinyurl.com/2f3u9me
>You might also check out this New Scientist commentary
>on the achivement. And don't miss the video.
>http://tinyurl.com/2vew4so
>(Interesting that this guy is at Wofford College, but where else
>would you do a study like this?)


Not quite up to "Chaser", but an Austrian border collie with a large 
"vocabulary" (German, of course) featured in a BBC Horizon science 
programme broadcast last year. In her case it was without the benefit 
of a College education. :-)

Clip from the programme:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8441974.stm

Allen Esterson
Former lecturer, Science Department
Southwark College, London
allenester...@compuserve.com
http://www.esterson.org


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[tips] Mind of a mnemonist (canine version)

[sblack]

http://tinyurl.com/2f3u9me

You might also check out this New Scientist commentary on the 
achivement. And don't miss the video.

http://tinyurl.com/2vew4so

(Interesting that this guy is at Wofford College, but where else 
would you do a study like this?)

Stephen


Stephen L. Black, Ph.D.  
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus   
Bishop's University
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada   
e-mail:  sblack at ubishops.ca
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re: [tips] Split brain/True or False

[Mike Palij]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:44:40 -0800, michael sylvester wrote:
>The original intent of the split brain procedure was to confine epileptic 
>seizures to one side of the brain.

According to the standard histories, mostly true.  The first person
to engage in cutting the corpus callosum was a neurosurgeon
William Van Wagenen and he reported the results of his surgery
in 1940 in the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry; see:
http://archneurpsyc.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/summary/44/4/740

Unfortunately, the operation on humans was unsuccessful.  If you
search for "Van Wagenen" on scholar.google.com, you'll find several
articles by him on the procedure.  Overall, it did not seem like a
promising procedure.

Roger Sperry was working at roughly the same time but with animals.
A list of Sperry's articles is available here:
http://people.uncw.edu/puente/sperry/sperrypapers/

Sperry provides a review of the his work on the corpus callosum
in a Scientific American article "The Great Cerebral Commisure"
which was published in 1964 (See #105 at the above website).
In it Sperry tells that his interest in this area began around 1950
and the first research article on the effect of cutting the corpus
callosum on animal learning was Myers and Sperry 1953 (it was
Myers' dissertation; the "publication" is #48 at the above website).
Mike Gazzaniga started to work with Sperry around this time and
was interested in trying to replicate Wagenen's work.  With the
aid of neurosurgeon Joseph Bogen, Gazzaniga and Sperry were
able to perform the first "new" split-brain operation in 1961.
One source for this information is Anthony Stringer's
"Pathways to Prominence in Neuropsychology" which is available
on books.google.com; the information regarding Mike G comes
from page 73 which should be accessible from this link:
http://books.google.com/books?id=-ahIs81yyTkC&pg=PA73&dq=sperry++%22William+Van+Wagenen%22+brain&hl=en&ei=gCcqTeXcJJSssAPLsM3aBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=sperry%20%20%22William%20Van%20Wagenen%22%20brain&f=false
or
http://tinyurl.com/splitbrain001 

-Mike Palij
New York University
m...@nyu.edu









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Re: Re:[tips] testing again--please ignore (and I apologize)

[michael sylvester]

  - Original Message - 
  From: Pollak, Edward 
  To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) 
  Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 12:46 PM
  Subject: Re:[tips] testing again--please ignore (and I apologize)






  Michael Sylvester wrote "Maybe someone is trying to get you off the list. It 
is like a prof who finds that his/her office is being moved closer to the 
parking lot every year."



  That's quite odd. I've found the exact opposite. The older I get, the farther 
my office seems to be from the parking lot.  And the distances between my 
office and classrooms appear to be getting greater still.  

  Ed





  Could this be construed as part of the university's wellness program? After 
all,exercise is good for the body.



  Michael

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[tips] Split brain/True or False

[michael sylvester]

The original intent of the split brain procedure was to confine epileptic 
seizures to one side of the brain.

Michael "omnicentric" Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida
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RE:[tips] testing again--please ignore (and I apologize)

[Bourgeois, Dr. Martin]

Me too, Ed. And the students keep getting younger!

From: Pollak, Edward [epol...@wcupa.edu]
Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:46 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re:[tips] testing again--please ignore (and I apologize)





Michael Sylvester wrote "Maybe someone is trying to get you off the list. It is 
like a prof who finds that his/her office is being moved closer to the parking 
lot every year."



That's quite odd. I've found the exact opposite. The older I get, the farther 
my office seems to be from the parking lot.  And the distances between my 
office and classrooms appear to be getting greater still.

Ed



Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
http://home.comcast.net/~epollak/home.htm

Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, & bluegrass fiddler.. in 
approximate order of importance.


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Re:[tips] testing again--please ignore (and I apologize)

[Pollak, Edward]

Michael Sylvester wrote "Maybe someone is trying to get you off the list. It is 
like a prof who finds that his/her office is being moved closer to the parking 
lot every year."



That's quite odd. I've found the exact opposite. The older I get, the farther 
my office seems to be from the parking lot.  And the distances between my 
office and classrooms appear to be getting greater still.

Ed



Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
http://home.comcast.net/~epollak/home.htm

Husband, father, grandfather, biopsychologist, & bluegrass fiddler.. in 
approximate order of importance.

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