Senior Seminar in Neural and Behavioral Sciences
Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, Spring, 2002
Session 2: Paradigmatic Cases and Methodogical Considerations
Readings and Web Links
Animals
Bentley, David and Hoy, Ronald R. (1974) The neurobiology of cricket song. Scientific American, August, 1974, pp 34-44.
Young (2000) The Tick Tock of the Biological Clock. Scientific American, March, 2000 http://www.sciamarchive.org/pdfs/1434375.pdf
(This is accessible from campus computers only. If you have trouble with the URL above, go to http://www.sciam archive.org, and search "nature versus nurture")
Humans
Lenhoff, H., Wang, P.P., Greenberg, F, and Bellugi, U. (1997) Williams Syndrome and the Brain, Scientific American, December, 1997 http://www.sciamarchive.org/pdfs/458750.pdf
(This is accessible from campus computers only. If you have trouble with the URL above, go to http://www.sciam archive.org, and search "nature versus nurture")
Looking for Madam Tetrachromat
Tongue-rolling is not a simple inherited trait, Robert Huskey, University of Virginia
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man, search on "behavior"
Heritability
Human Genetics for the Social Sciences, from from Gregory Carey, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado
Human Genetics for the Social Sciences - Interactive Learning Exercises, from Gregory Carey, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado
(needs Internet Explorer rather than Netscape)
Questions for discussion: