Jeffrey L. Calton, Ph.D.
Courses | Papers and Publications | Research Projects | Professional Associations
Contact Information |
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| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Office Hours: |
No Regular Summer Hours |
| E-mail: | calton@csus.edu |
| Office Phone: |
(916) 278-5607 |
| Mailing Address: |
Sacramento State 6000 J Street Sacramento, CA 95819-6007 |
Courses
- Psychology 115 - Introduction to Neuroscience
- Psychology 117 - Drugs and Behavior
- Psychology 118 - Cognitive Neuroscience
- Psychology 220 - Psychopharmacology (graduate)
Recent Papers and Publications
- Calton, J.L. and Taube, J.S. (2005). Degradation of head direction cell activity during inverted locomotion. The Journal of Neuroscience, 25, 2420-2428
- Calton, J.L., Stackman, R.W., Goodridge, J.P., Archey, W.B., Dudchenko, P.A., and Taube, J.S. (2003). Hippocampal place cell instability following lesions of the head direction cell network. The Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 9719-9731.
- Dickinson, A.R., Calton, J.L., and Snyder, L.H. (2003). Non-spatial saccade-specific activation in area LIP of monkey parietal cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 90, 2460-2465.
- Calton, J. L., Dickinson, A. R., & Snyder, L. H. (2002). Non-spatial, motor-specific activation in posterior parietal cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 580-588.
Research Projects/Interests
- We are interested in the brain mechanisms that allow organisms to successfully navigate in the world. There are specialized neurons in the brain known as head direction cells, that seem to encode the horizontal direction that the head is pointed in a known environment. Theorists have suggested that these cells are part of the brain networks that mediate navigational behavior. As a lab we perform experiments aimed at determining the characteristics of these cells.
Professional Associations
- Society for Neuroscience.
Last updated: 01/20/2006
