Background
Casseday, John Herbert was born on August 11, 1934 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of John Herbert and Marjorie (Hoban) Casseday.
(The brain of an echo locating bat is devoted, in large pa...)
The brain of an echo locating bat is devoted, in large part, to analyzing sound and conducting behavior in a world of sounds and echoes. This monograph is about analysis of sound in the brainstem of echolocating bats and concerns the relationship between brain structure and brain function. Echolocating bats are unique subjects for the study of such relationships. Like man, echolocating bats emit sounds just for the purpose of listening to them. Simply by observing the bat's echolocation sounds, we know what the bat listens to in nature. We therefore have a good idea what the bat's auditory brain is designed to do. But this alone does not make the bat unique. The brain of the bat is, by mammalian standards, rather primitive. The unique aspect is the combination of primitive characteristics and complex auditory processing. Within this small brain the auditory structures are hypertrophied and have an elegance of organization not seen in other mammals. It is as if the auditory pathways had evolved while the rest of the brain remained evolutionary quiescent.
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Casseday, John Herbert was born on August 11, 1934 in Pasadena, California, United States. Son of John Herbert and Marjorie (Hoban) Casseday.
Bachelor, University California, Riverside, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1970.
Assistant professor, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1972-1979; associate medical research professor, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, 1979-1988; associate professor department neurobiology, Duke U. Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, since 1988.
(The brain of an echo locating bat is devoted, in large pa...)
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, International Society Neuroethology, Society Neurosci.
Married Margrid Krueger. Children: Patrick, Tara. Married Ellen Covey, February 15, 1981.