Publications of Robert P Erickson    :chronological  alphabetical  combined listing:

%% Journal Articles   
@article{fds325033,
   Author = {Erickson, RP},
   Title = {A study of the science of taste: on the origins and
             influence of the core ideas.},
   Journal = {The Behavioral and brain sciences},
   Volume = {31},
   Number = {1},
   Pages = {59-75},
   Year = {2008},
   Month = {February},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x08003348},
   Abstract = {Our understanding of the sense of taste is largely based on
             research designed and interpreted in terms of the
             traditional four "basic" tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and
             bitter, and now a few more. This concept of basic tastes has
             no rational definition to test, and thus it has not been
             tested. As a demonstration, a preliminary attempt to test
             one common but arbitrary psychophysical definition of basic
             tastes is included in this article; that the basic tastes
             are unique in being able to account for other tastes. This
             definition was falsified in that other stimuli do about as
             well as the basic words and stimuli. To the extent that this
             finding might show analogies with other studies of receptor,
             neural, and psychophysical phenomena, the validity of the
             century-long literature of the science of taste based on a
             few "basics" is called into question. The possible origins,
             meaning, and influence of this concept are discussed. Tests
             of the model with control studies are suggested in all areas
             of taste related to basic tastes. As a stronger alternative
             to the basic tradition, the advantages of the across-fiber
             pattern model are discussed; it is based on a rational
             data-based hypothesis, and has survived attempts at
             falsification. Such "population coding" has found broad
             acceptance in many neural systems.},
   Doi = {10.1017/s0140525x08003348},
   Key = {fds325033}
}

@article{fds325034,
   Author = {Erickson, RP},
   Title = {The evolution and implications of population and modular
             neural coding ideas.},
   Journal = {Progress in brain research},
   Volume = {130},
   Pages = {9-29},
   Year = {2001},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0079-6123(01)30003-1},
   Doi = {10.1016/s0079-6123(01)30003-1},
   Key = {fds325034}
}