Paul Grobstein
Eleanor A. Bliss Professor of Biology

Education

B.A.in Biology, Harvard University, 1969
M.S. in Biology, Stanford University, 1972
Ph.D. in Biology, Stanford University, 1973

Research Interests

Publications

Grobstein, P. (1988) On beyond neuronal specificity: problems in going from cells to networks and from networks to behavior. In: Advances in Neural and Behavioral Development, Volume III. (Shinkman, P.G., ed.), Ablex, pp. 1-58.

Grobstein, P. (1988) From the head to the heart: some thoughts on similarities between brain function and morphogenesis, and on their significance for research methodology and biological theory. Experientia 44: 961-971.

Masino, T. and Grobstein, P. (1989) The organization of descending tectofugal pathways underlying orienting in the frog, Rana pipiens. I. Lateralization, parcellation, and an intermediate spatial representation. Exp. Brain Res. 75: 227-244.

Masino, T. and Grobstein, P. (1989) The organization of descending tectofugal pathways underlying orienting in the frog, Rana pipiens. II. Evidence for the involvement of a tecto-tegmento-spinal pathway. Exp. Brain Res. 75: 245-264.

Grobstein, P. (1989) Organization in the sensorimotor interface: a case study with increased resolution. In: Visuomotor Coordination: Amphibians, Comparisons, Models, and Robots (Ewert, J.-P. and Arbib, M.A., eds), Plenum, pp 537-568.

Grobstein, P. (1989) Diversity and deviance: a biological perspective. Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Spring, 1989, pp 4-5.

Grobstein, P. (1989) The Scientist/Teacher: A Call to Arms. J. College Sci. Teaching, December, p 140ff.

Grobstein, P. (1990) Strategies for analyzing complex organization in the nervous system. I. Lesion experiments, the old rediscovered. In: Computational Neuroscience. (Schwartz, E., ed.), MIT Press, pp 19-37.

Grobstein, P. (1990) Strategies for analyzing complex organization in the nervous system. II. A case study: directed movement and spatial representation in the frog. In: Computational Neuroscience. (Schwartz, E., ed.), MIT Press, pp 242-255.

Grobstein, P. (1991) Genomes to dreams. Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin, Spring, 1991, pp 14-17.

Grobstein, P. (1991) Directed movement in the frog: a closer look at a central representation of spatial location. In: Visual Structures and Integrated Functions (Research Notes in Neural Computing, Vol., 3) (Arbib, M.A. and Ewert, J.-P., eds), Springer-Verlag, pp 125-138.

Grobstein, P. (1992) Directed movement in the frog: motor choice, spatial representation, free will? In: Neurobiology of Motor Programme Selection: New Approaches to Mechanisms of Behavioral Choice. (Kien, J., McCrohan, C., Winlow, B., eds.), Pergamon Press, pp 250-279.

Grobstein, P., Brodfuehrer, P, and Oristaglio, J. (1993) The free-will problem: motor choice and intrinsic variability in frog and leech. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 19: 1617.

Grobstein, P. (1994) Variability in behavior and the nervous system. In: Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, Volume 4 (V.S. Ramachandran, ed.), Academic Press, 447-458.

Patton, P. and Grobstein, P (1998) The effects of telencephalic lesions on visually mediated prey orienting behavior in the frog (Rana pipiens). I. The effects of complete removal of one telencephalic lobe, with a comparison to the effects of unilateral tectal lobe lesions. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 51: 123-143.

Patton, P. and Grobstein, P (1998) The effects of telencephalic lesions on visually mediated prey orienting behavior in the frog (Rana pipiens). II. The effect of limited lesions to the telencephalon. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution 51: 144-161

Grobstein, P., Oristaglio, J, Baum, A., and McCallum, J. (1998) Frog prey orienting behavior: further analysis of a sensorimotor deficit. Soc. Neursoci. Abstr. 24: 187.

Oristaglio, J., Grobstein, P., Biernat, Ni., and Vero, E. (1998) Frog prey orienting behavior: the problem of multiple distance cues. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 24: 187.

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