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CARL PFAFFMANN
CARL PFAFFMANN
Pages 263-280
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He had graduated from Brown magna cum laude, with honors in psychology, he had played saxophone in orchestras and dance bands, he had been involved with the swimming team, and his scholarship had earned him the respect of Leonard Carmichael, then chairman of the psychology department, who had invited him to join the teaching and research activities of the laboratory. From this beginning Carl went on to a career in which his all-around talents took him to a position of world leadership in his chosen academic field of the chemical senses of taste and smell.
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go with a research assistantship to the nearby laboratory of Herbert Jasper, who was doing pioneering work with the recording of human brain waves. Jasper's electrophysiological record
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cleferentially to sugar, acid, salt, or quinine, but his initial attempts to isolate single taste fibers were unsuccessful. The lingual nerve of the cat was macle up primarily of nontaste-sensitive fibers whose responses "cirownec!
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his dissertation on taste nerve responses to his mentor at Cambridge, but Adrian declined to read it, saying that Car! shouIc!
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discriminate the basic taste components of sweet, sour, salty, en c! bitter given that each of the incliviclual sensory units responds to more than one type of stimulus?
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Uncler these favorable conditions research teams were former! with members of the faculty, graduate students, postcloctorals, en c!
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Every year they hosted a Christmas party, mainly for the psychology department. These were happy years for all of us.
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that certain chemical substances hac! similar abilities to arouse taste nerve responses.
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that, while cravings exist for salt or sugar in animals cleprivec! of these substances, there is no evidence that this results from any diminution of taste sensitivity.
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of the Division of Experimental Psychology of the American Psychological Association. In 1959, together with Lloyc!
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administration of Frederick Seitz as president. Neal Miller extenclec!
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to be a major concern in Carl's Laboratory of Physiological Psychology. Work on the specificity of monkey taste neurons by one of his stuclents, Marion Frank, lee!
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with acivice from his former students Bruce Halpern en c! Max Mozell.
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I am particularly indebted to his former student and colleague Linda Bartoshuk for supplying me with publications and for helpful comments on the present memoir.
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Sensory discharges in cutaneous nerve fibers following chemical stimulation. Psychol.
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Coding gustatory information in the squirrel monkey chorda tympani. In Progress
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Taste loss due to herpes zoster oticus.
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