Selected Publications 1967-1998 of William H. Calvin

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Selected Publications 1967-1998
of William H. Calvin

BOOKS

William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (1980). Inside the Brain: Mapping the Cortex, Exploring the Neuron. New York: New American Library.
William H. Calvin (1983). The Throwing Madonna: Essays on the Brain. New York: McGraw-Hill. Hardcover and softcover editions; Japanese translation 1987. Book-of-the-Month Club (SCIENCE). Revised edition by Bantam (July, 1991).
William H. Calvin (1986). The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain. New York: Macmillan. Hardcover edition November 1986; softcover edition (Sierra Club Books) November 1987, fourth printing June 1992. Quality Paperback Book Club, Macmillan Natural History Book Club. Dutch translation De Rivier die tegen de Berg Opstroomt (Bert Bakker, Amsterdam, 1990). German translation Der Strom der bergauf fliesst: Ein Reise durch die Evolution (Carl Hanser Verlag, 1994; bestseller).
William H. Calvin (1989). The Cerebral Symphony: Seashore Reflections on the Structure of Consciousness. New York: Bantam. Hardcover. Literary Guild, Macmillan Science Book Club. Paperback edition, November 1990. Dutch translation De Cerebrale Symfonie (Bert Bakker 1992). German translation Die Symphonie des Denkens (Carl Hanser Verlag 1993).
William H. Calvin (1990). The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence. New York: Bantam. Hardcover. Library of Science Book Club. Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award. Dutch translation De opkomst van het intellect: Een reis naar de ijstijd (Bert Bakker 1994). German translation 1997.
William H. Calvin (1991). How the Shaman Stole the Moon:In Search of Ancient Prophet-Scientists from Stonehenge to the Grand Canyon. New York: Bantam. Dutch translation Hoe de Sjamaan de Maan Stal (Bert Bakker 1993). German translation 1996.
William H. Calvin and George A. Ojemann (1994). Conversations with Neil's Brain: The Neural Nature of Thought and Language (Addison-Wesley trade book). Library of Science Book Club. Dutch translation Ontdekkingstocht door de hersenen (Bert Bakker 1995). German translation Einsicht ins Gehirn (Carl Hanser Verlag 1995).
William H. Calvin (1996). How Brains Think. New York: Basic Books (Science Masters). Book of the Month Club.
William H. Calvin (1996). The Cerebral Code: Thinking a Thought in the Mosaics of the Mind, MIT Press.

1990-1998 PUBLICATIONS other than books
Calvin, W. H. (1990). The trilogy of Homo seriatim. In Speculations: The Reality Club, edited by John Brockman (New York: Prentice Hall), pp. 1-17.
Calvin, W. H. (1990). Simulations of reality: Deciding what to do next. In Speculations: The Reality Club, edited by John Brockman (New York: Prentice Hall), pp. 109-130.
Calvin, W. H. (1990). The cortical consensus: A distributed darwinian model for recognition and decision-to-act. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 16:446.3
Calvin, W. H. (1991). Foretelling Eclipses, Whole Earth Review 70:64-71.
Calvin, W. H. (1991). Islands in the mind: dynamic subdivisions in "association" cortex as a Darwin Machine that augments intelligence. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 17:51.10
Calvin, W. H., and K. Graubard (1991). Evolving neural functions. Seminars in the Neurosciences 3(5):351-353.
Calvin, W. H. (1991). Islands in the mind: dynamic subdivisions of association cortex and the emergence of a Darwin Machine. Seminars in the Neurosciences 3(5):423-433.
Calvin, W. H. (1991). The antecedents of consciousness: Evolving the "intelligent" ability to simulate situations and contemplate the consequences of novel courses of action. In: Bioastronomy: The Exploration Broadens, edited by Jean Heidmann and Michael J. Klein (Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Physics series), pp. 311-319.
Calvin, W. H. (1991). Why an intentional ETI signal might masquerade as a familiar radio astronomy object. In: Bioastronomy: The Exploration Broadens, edited by Jean Heidmann and Michael J. Klein (Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Physics series), pp. 395-397.
Calvin, W. H. (1991). Might Catastrophic Cooling Be Triggered by Greenhouse Warming? Whole Earth Review 73:106-111.
Calvin, William H. (1992). Evolving mixed-media messages and Grammatical Language: Secondary uses of the neural sequencing machinery needed for ballistic movements. In Language Origin: A Multidisciplinary Approach edited by J. Wind, B. Chiarelli, B. Bichakjian, A. Nocentini, A. Jonker (Kluver, Dordrecht), pp. 163-179.
Calvin, William H. (1992). Association cortex as a darwinian workspace: Corticocortical axons suggest cloning from hexagonal engrams. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 18:214.18
Calvin, W. H. (1993). The unitary hypothesis: A common neural circuitry for novel manipulations, language, plan-ahead, and throwing? In Tools, Language, and Cognition in Human Evolution, edited by Kathleen R. Gibson and Tim Ingold. Cambridge University Press, pp. 230-250.
Calvin, William H. (1993). Error-correcting codes: Coherent hexagonal copying from fuzzy neuroanatomy. World Congress on Neural Networks 1:101-104 (1993).
Calvin, W. H. (1993). Binding forms a cerebral code which error corrects: Scattered feature detectors generate a hexagonal code via synchronizing excitation among pyramidal neurons. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 19:398.22.
Calvin, W. H. (1993). Cautions on the Superhuman Transition, Whole Earth Review 81:96-98.
Calvin, W. H. (1994). Compressing the cerebral code: Hebbian cell assemblies may be concentrated into a hexagonal marcocolumn. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 20:315 (138.4).
Calvin, W. H. (1994). The emergence of intelligence. Scientific American 271(4):100-107 (October; special issue Life in the Universe, out as a 1995 book of the same name).
Calvin, W. H. (1995). How to think what no one has ever thought before. In How Things Work: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind, edited by John Brockman and Katinka Matson (William Morrow), pp. 151-164.
Calvin, W. H. (1995). "Cortical Columns, Modules, and Hebbian Cell Assemblies," in: The Handbook of Brain Theory and Neural Networks, edited by Michael A. Arbib (Bradford Books/MIT Press), pp. 269-272.
Calvin, W. H. (1995). Island biogeography in cerebral cortex: Shaping up new cerebral codes in functional archipelagos. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 21:372.13.
Calvin, W. H. (1996). Universal Grammar's emergence from protolanguage: corticocortical coherence could enable binding and recursive embedding. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 22:440.13.
Calvin, W. H. (1997). "Evolving Improvisational Intelligence." To appear in the proceedings of the International Federation of Science Editors
Calvin, W. H. (1997). Book review of Terrence W. Deacon's The Symbolic Species in The New York Times Book Review (August 10).
William H. Calvin (1998), "The great climate flip-flop," The Atlantic Monthly 281(1):47-64 (January 1998).
William H. Calvin (1998), "Competing for Consciousness: A Darwinian Mechanism at an Appropriate Level of Explanation." Journal of Consciousness Studies 5(4)389-404 (1998).

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1967-1989 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(first decade publications 1965-1974 largely omitted)
Calvin, W. H., and Stevens, C. F. (1967). Synaptic noise as a source of variability in the interval between action potentials. Science 155:842-844.

Ehrlich, A., and Calvin, W. H. (1967). Visual discrimination behavior in Galago and owl monkey. Psychonomical Science 9:509-510.

Calvin, W. H., and Stevens, C. F. (1968). Synaptic noise and other sources of randomness in motoneuron interspike intervals. Journal of Neurophysiology 31:574-587.
Calvin, W.H. (1968). Evaluating membrane potential and spike patterns by experimenter-controlled computer displays. Experimental Neurology 21:512-534.
Calvin, W.H., Sypert, G.W., Ward, A.A., Jr. (1968). Structured timing patterns within bursts from epileptic neurons in undrugged monkey cortex. Experimental Neurology 21:535-549.
Calvin, W.H. (1969). Dendritic synapses and reversal potentials: theoretical implications of the view from the soma. Experimental Neurology 24:248-264.

Calvin, W. H., and Schwindt, P. C. (1972). Steps in production of motoneuron spikes during rhythmic firing. Journal of Neurophysiology 35:297-310.
Schwindt, P.C., and Calvin, W. H. (1972). Membrane-potential trajectories between spikes underlying motoneuron firing rates. Journal of Neurophysiology 35:311-325.
Calvin, William H. (1972). Synaptic potential summation and repetitive firing mechanisms: input-output theory for the recruitment of neurons into epileptic bursting firing patterns. Brain Research 39: 71-94.
Calvin, W. H., Ojemann, G. A., and Ward, A. A., Jr. (1973). Human cortical neurons in epileptogenic foci: Comparison of inter-ictal firing patterns to those of "epileptic" neurons in animals. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 34:337-351.
Kjerulf, T. D., O'Neal, J. T., Calvin, W. H., Loeser, J. D., Westrum, L.E. (1973). Deafferentation effects in lateral cuneate nucleus of the cat: correlation of structural alterations with firing pattern changes. Experimental Neurology 39: 86-102.
Schwindt, P.C., and Calvin, W. H. (1973). Equivalence of synaptic and injected current in determining the membrane potential trajectory during motoneuron rhythmic firing. Brain Research 59: 389-394.
Schwindt, P.C., and Calvin, W. H. (1973). Nature of conductances underlying rhythmic firing in cat spinal motoneurons. Journal of Neurophysiology 36: 955-973
Calvin, W. H. (1974). Three modes of repetitive firing and the role of threshold time course between spikes. Brain Research 69:341-346.
Calvin, W. H., and Sypert, G. W. (1975). Cerebral cortex neurons with extra spikes: a normal substrate for epileptic discharges? Brain Research 83: 498-503.
Calvin, W. H. (1975). Generation of spike trains in CNS neurons. Brain Research 84:1-22.
Calvin, W. H., and Loeser, J. D. (1975). Doublet and burst firing patterns within the dorsal column nuclei of cat and man. Experimental Neurology 48:406-426.

Calvin, W. H., and Sypert, G. W. (1976). Fast and slow pyramidal tract neurons: An intracellular analysis of their contrasting repetitive firing properties in the cat. Journal of Neurophysiology 39:420-434.

Howe, J. F., Calvin, W. H., and Loeser, J. D. (1976). Impulses reflected from dorsal root ganglia and from focal nerve injuries. Brain Research 116:139-144.

Howe, J. F., Loeser, J. D., and Calvin, W. H. (1977). Mechanosensitivity of dorsal root ganglia and chronically injured axons: A physiological basis for the radicular pain of nerve root compression. Pain 3:25-41.

Calvin, W. H., and Hartline, D. K. (1977). Retrograde invasion of lobster stretch receptor somata in the control of firing rate and extra spike patterning. Journal of Neurophysiology 40:106-118.

Calvin, W. H., Loeser, J. D., and Howe, J. F. (1977). A neurophysiological theory for the pain mechanism of tic douloureux. Pain 3:147-154.

Loeser, J. D., W. H. Calvin, and J. F. Howe (1977). Pathophysiology of trigeminal neuralgia. Clinical Neurosurgery 24:527-537.

Calvin, W. H., J. F. Howe, and J. D. Loeser (1977). Ectopic repetitive firing in focally demyelinated axons and some implications for trigeminal neuralgia. In: Pain in the Trigeminal Region (edited by D. J. Anderson and B. Matthews), pp. 125-136.

Ojemann, G. A., Calvin, W. H., and Ward, A. A., Jr. (1978). Intrinsic neuronal membrane abnormalities in human epileptic foci as inferred from effects of focal cooling. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 4:145.

Calvin, W. H. (1978). Setting the pace and pattern of discharge: Do CNS neurons vary their sensitivity to external inputs via their repetitive firing processes? Federation Proc. (Symp.) 37:2165-2170.

Calvin, W. H. (1978). Re-excitation in normal and abnormal repetitive firing of CNS neurons. In: Abnormal Neuronal Discharges (N. Chalazonitis and M. Boisson, eds.), Raven Press, New York, pp.49-61.

Calvin, W. H. (1979). Some design features of axons and how neuralgias may defeat them. In: Advances in Pain Research and Therapy (J. Bonica, ed.), 3:297-309.

Calvin, W. H., and Graubard, K. (1979). Styles of neuronal computation. Chapter 29 in: The Neurosciences, Fourth Study Program. Edited by F. O. Schmitt and F. G. Worden. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp.513-524.

Graubard, K., and Calvin, W. H. (1979). Presynaptic dendrites: Implications of spikeless synaptic transmission and dendritic geometry. Chapter 18 in: The Neurosciences, Fourth Study Program. Edited by F. O. Schmitt and F. G. Worden. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp.317-331.

Calvin, W. H., and K. Graubard (1979). Somatic vs dendritic synapses: Membrane resistivity is often unimportant in determining relative strengths. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 5:1690.

Calvin, W. H., and D. A. Turner (1980). Voltage and current transfer along dendrites of lobster stretch receptor neurons. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 6:197.

Calvin, W. H. (1980). Normal repetitive firing and its pathophysiology. In: Epilepsy: A Window to Brain Mechanisms (J. Lockard and A. A. Ward, Jr., eds.), Raven Press, New York, pp. 97-121.

Turner, D. A., and Calvin, W. H. (1981). Dendritic analysis of lobster stretch receptor neurons: Electrotonic properties with single and distributed inputs. Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology 1:189-207.

Calvin, William H. (1981). The throwing theory for language origins. Human Ethology Newsletter 3:17-22.

Graubard, K., and William H. Calvin (1981). Aplysia buccal ganglion motorneurons: Morphology and electrotonic properties. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 7:113.

Calvin, William H. (1982). Book review of: Neurones Without Impulses by A. Roberts and B. M. B. Bush. Journal of Neurobiology 13:199-200.

Calvin, W. H. (1982). Ectopic firing from damaged nerve: Chemo- and mechanosensitivity, afterdischarge and crosstalk. In: Etiology of Idiopathic Low Back Pain (A. A. White III, S. Gordon, eds.), C. V. Mosby: Philadelphia. pp. 433-443.

Calvin, W. H. (1982). To spike or not to spike? Controlling the neuron's rhythm, preventing the ectopic beat. In: Abnormal Nerves and Muscles as Impulse Generators. Edited by W. J. Culp and J. Ochoa. Pages 295-321. New York: Oxford Univ. Press.

Calvin, W. H., Devor, M., and Howe, J. F. (1982). Can neuralgias arise from minor demyelination? Spontaneous firing, mechanosensitivity, and afterdischarge from conducting axons. Experimental Neurology 75:755-763.

Calvin, W. H. (1982). Did throwing stones shape hominid brain evolution? Ethology and Sociobiology 3:115-124.

Calvin, W. H. (1983). Timing sequencers as a foundation for language. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6(2):210-211.
Calvin, W. H. (1983). A stone's throw and its launch window: timing precision and its implications for language and hominid brains. Journal of Theoretical Biology 104:121-135.

See also BOOKS

Calvin, W. H. (1984). Precision timing requirements suggest wider brain connections, not more restricted ones. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 7(3):334.

Calvin, W. H. (1984). Fine discrimination as an emergent property of parallel neural circuits. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 10:218.11.

Calvin, W. H. (1986). The great encephalization: Throwing, juvenilization, developmental slowing, and maternal mortality roles in prehuman brain enlargement. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 12:136.9 (abstract; entire text was subsequently published in Human Ethology Newsletter, September 1987).

Calvin, W. H. (1987). On evolutionary expectations of symmetry and toolmaking. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 10:267-268 (June 1987).

Calvin, W. H. (1987). Bootstrapping thought: Is consciousness a Darwinian sidestep? Whole Earth Review 55:22-28 (Summer 1987).

Calvin, W. H. (1987). Darwin machines: Selection among stochastic sequencers in parallel command buffers as a mimic of consciousness. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 13(3):428.16.

Calvin, W. H. (1987). Of fast teeth and big heads. Nature 328:481 (6 August; scientific correspondence).

Calvin, W. H. (1987). The Great Encephalization: Throwing, juvenilization, developmental slowing, and maternal mortality roles in prehuman brain enlargement. Human Ethology Newsletter 5(3):6-8 (September 1987).

Calvin, W. H. (1987). The brain as a Darwin machine. Nature 330:33-34 (5 November).

Calvin, W. H. (1988). Fast Tracks to Intelligence: Considerations from Evolutionary Biology and Neurobiology. In: Bioastronomy - The Next Steps, edited by George Marx (D. Reidel, Dordrecht, Holland), Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, Bioastronomy Colloquium 99, Lake Balaton, Hungary (June 1987), pp.237-245.

Calvin, W. H. (1988). The evolutionary sidestep. Whole Earth Review 60:4-9 (Fall 1988).

Calvin, W. H. (1988). Why "Grandmother's Face" and "Command" Neurons Are Rare (Answer: The Fireworks Finale). Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 14:260.

Calvin, W. H. (1988). A global brain theory (a book review of Gerald Edelman's Neural Darwinism). Science 240:1802-1803 (24 June 1988).

Calvin, W. H. (1989). Commentary on "The archaeology of perception." Current Anthropology 30(2):138-139 (April 1989).

Calvin, William H. (1989). Darwinian view of language: A well-formed sentence as analogous to speciation and the immune response. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts 15:415.12.
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