Neuroscience Program

Publications in Refereed Journals

Lyons-Warren AM, Hollmann M and Carlson BA (In Press) Sensory receptor diversity establishes a peripheral population code for stimulus duration at low intensities. Journal of Experimental Biology.

Lyons-Warren AM, Kohashi T, Mennerick S and Carlson BA (In Press) Retrograde fluorescent labeling allows for targeted extracellular single-unit recording from identified neurons in vivo. Journal of Visualized Experiments.

Carlson BA (2012) Diversity matters: The importance of comparative studies and the potential for synergy between neuroscience and evolutionary biology. Archives of Neurology doi:10.1001/archneurol.2012.77. [PDF]

Carlson BA, Hasan SM, Hollmann M, Miller DB, Harmon LJ and Arnegard ME (2011) Brain evolution triggers increased diversification of electric fishes. Science 332: 583-586. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplement] [Faculty of 1000 "Exceptional"] [Science] [Discover] [Science News] [Science Daily] [PhysOrg] [The Naked Scientists] [Washington University] [Eurekalert] [Wired] [redOrbit] [Futurity] [Gizmodo] [io9]

George AA, Lyons-Warren AM, Ma X and Carlson BA (2011) A diversity of synaptic filters are created by temporal summation of excitation and inhibition. Journal of Neuroscience 31: 14721-14734. [PDF]

Carlson BA and Arnegard ME (2011) Neural innovations and the diversification of African weakly electric fishes. Communicative & Integrative Biology 4: 720-725. [Abstract] [PDF]

Gallant JR, Arnegard ME, Sullivan JP, Carlson BA and Hopkins CD (2011). Signal variation and its morphological correlates in Paramormyrops kingsleyae provide insight into the evolution of electrogenic signal diversity in mormyrid electric fish. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 197: 799-817. [PDF] [Supplement]

Carlson BA (2009) Temporal-pattern recognition by single neurons in a sensory pathway devoted to social communication behavior. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 9417-9428. [PDF] [Faculty of 1000 "Must Read"] [This Week in the Journal]

Carlson BA and Kawasaki M (2008) From stimulus estimation to combination sensitivity: Encoding and processing of amplitude and timing information in parallel, convergent sensory pathways. Journal of Computational Neuroscience 25: 1-24. [PDF]

Carlson BA (2008) Phantoms in the brain: Ambiguous representations of stimulus amplitude and timing in weakly electric fish. Journal of Physiology - Paris 102: 209-222. [PDF]

Carlson BA and Kawasaki M (2007) Behavioral responses to jamming and 'phantom' jamming stimuli in the weakly electric fish Eigenmannia. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 193: 927-941. [PDF]

Carlson BA and Kawasaki M (2006) Stimulus selectivity is enhanced by voltage-dependent conductances in combination-sensitive neurons. Journal of Neurophysiology 96: 3362-3377. [PDF] [Models available at Yale ModelDB]

Carlson BA and Kawasaki M (2006) Ambiguous encoding of stimuli by primary sensory afferents causes a lack of independence in the perception of multiple stimulus attributes. Journal of Neuroscience 26: 9173-9183. [PDF] [Models available at Yale ModelDB]

Arnegard ME and Carlson BA (2005) Electric organ discharge patterns during group hunting by a mormyrid fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272: 1305-1314. [PDF] [Wissenschaft Online]

Carlson BA and Kawasaki M (2004) Nonlinear response properties of combination-sensitive electrosensory neurons in the midbrain of Gymnarchus niloticus. Journal of Neuroscience 24: 8039-8048. [PDF] [Faculty of 1000 "Recommended"] [This Week in the Journal]

Carlson BA and Hopkins CD (2004) Stereotyped temporal patterns in electrical communication. Animal Behaviour 68: 867-878. [PDF]

Carlson BA and Hopkins CD (2004) Central control of electric signaling behavior in the mormyrid Brienomyrus brachyistius: Segregation of behavior-specific inputs and the role of modifiable recurrent inhibition. Journal of Experimental Biology 207: 1073-1084. [PDF] [Inside JEB]

Carlson BA (2003) Single-unit activity patterns in nuclei that control the electromotor command nucleus during spontaneous electric signal production in the mormyrid Brienomyrus brachyistius. Journal of Neuroscience 23: 10128-10136. [PDF]

Carlson BA (2002) Neuroanatomy of the mormyrid electromotor control system. Journal of Comparative Neurology 454: 440-455. [PDF]

Carlson BA (2002) Electric signaling behavior and the mechanisms of electric organ discharge production in mormyrid fish. Journal of Physiology - Paris 96: 403-417. [PDF]

Carlson BA, Hopkins CD and Thomas P (2000) Androgen correlates of socially induced changes in the electric organ discharge waveform of a mormyrid fish. Hormones and Behavior 38: 177-186. [PDF]

Carlson BA and Bass AH (2000) Sonic/vocal motor pathways in squirrelfish (Teleostei, Holocentridae). Brain Behavior and Evolution 56: 14-28. [PDF]

 

Book Chapters

Tricas TC and Carlson BA (2012) Electroreceptors and magnetoreceptors. In: Cell Physiology Sourcebook (Sperelakis N, ed.), 4th ed, pp. 705-725. Elsevier.

Carlson BA (2011) Detection and generation of electric signals in fishes: An introduction. In: Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment (Farrell AP, ed.), vol. 1, pp. 347-349. Academic Press. [PDF]

Carlson BA (2009) Temporal coding in electroreception. In: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Binder MD, Hirokawa N, Windhorst U, Hirsch MC, eds.), pp. 4039-4044. Springer.

Carlson BA (2009) Reafferent control in electric communication. In: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Binder MD, Hirokawa N, Windhorst U, Hirsch MC, eds.), pp. 3368-3373. Springer.

Carlson BA (2006) A neuroethology of electrocommunication: Senders, receivers, and everything in between. In: Communication in Fishes (Ladich F, Collin SP, Moller P, Kapoor BG, eds.), pp. 805-848. Science Publishers.

Caputi AA, Carlson BA, and Macadar O (2005) Electric organs and their control. In: Electroreception (Bullock TH, Hopkins CD, Popper A, Fay RR, eds.), pp. 410-451. Springer. [PDF]