Heiligenberg Lecture Series History

Dr. Walter F. Heiligenberg was a professor of behavioral physiology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. His groundbreaking research identifying the function of neural networks for behavior has made him a world leader in the field of neuroethology. His seminal work on neural nets in electric fish elegantly combined electrophysiology and behavior with computational models and methods, making him a pioneer in the field of computational neuroscience. In this tradition, the Walter Heiligenberg Lectures recognizes the most distinguished research in neuroethology and in identifying how complex behaviors emerge from the activity patterns of neural networks.

• Dan Feldman

  2022
  Neural Coding of Whisker Touch

• Leonard Maler

  2021
  Spatial Learning via Active Sensing: Evidence for Cell Assemblies in the Fish Telencephalon?

• Catherine Carr

  2019
  Brainstem Codes for Sound Localization

• Harold H. Zakon

  2018
  Electric Fish and Ion Channels: Neurobiology Meets Molecular Evolution

• Eric I. Knudsen

  2017
  How the brain decides what to think about next: Neural Mechanisms of Attention in Birds

• Hans A. Hofmann

  2016
  Evolutionary Neuroethology of the Social Brain

• Cynthia F. Moss

  2015
  Representing space through sound: What the bat's voice tells the bat's brain

• William Kristan

  2014
  Making Behavioral Choices: Neuronal Democracy, Republic, or Monarchy?

• Rudiger Wehner

  2013
  Insect Neuroethology: A Look into the Cockpit of a Desert Navigator

• John G. Hildebrand

  2012
  Learning from Insect Brains: Explorations of a 'Simple' Olfactory System

• Allison Doupe

  2011
  What Songbirds Can Teach Us About Learning and the Brain