James C. Lynch

James C. Lynch

PROFESSOR EMERITUS

Department:
SOM-Advanced Biomedical Education

Education

Stanford University, MA, Physiological Psychology1971
Stanford University, PhD, Neurological Sciences1971
University of Missouri, BA, Experimental Psychology1964
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Physiology - Vernon Mountcastle

Current Positions

Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy06/2010 - Present
Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy1996 - Present
Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Neurology1992 - Present
Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Physiology And Biophysics1991 - Present
Associate Professor, School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology1987 - Present
The University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, Mississippi 39216

Academic Appointments or Other Previous Appointments

Associate Professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center, School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy1982 - 1996
Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi Medical Center, School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy1981 - 1982
Assistant Professor, Mayo Medical School, Mayo Clinic, School of Medicine1976 - 1981
Instructor, The Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine1974 - 1976

Publications

Journal Article

Lynch, J.C. Pursuit eye movement signals in the basal ganglia. Neuroreport 20: 103-4, 20092009
Gaymard, B., Lynch, J. C., Ploner, C. J., Rivaud-Péchoux, S. The parieto-collicular pathway. Anatomical location and contribution to saccade generation. Eur. J. Neurosci., 17: 1518-1526. 20032003
Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J. C. The pursuit subregion of the frontal eye field projects to the caudate nucleus in monkeys. J. Neurophysiol., 89: 2678-2684, 20032003
Haines, D. E., Hutchins, J. B., and Lynch, J. C. Medical neurobiology: do we teach neurobiology in a format that is relevant to the clinical setting? Anat. Rec. (New Anat.) 269:00-106, 20022002
Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D., and Lynch, J.C. Overlap of saccadic and pursuit eye movement systems in the brainstem reticular formation. J. Neurophysiol., 86: 3056-3060. 20012001
Clower, D.M., West, R.A., Lynch, J.C., and Strick, P.L. The inferior parietal lobule is the target of output from the superior colliculus, hippocampus and cerebellum. J. Neurosci., 21: 6283-6291. 20012001
Ma, T.P., Lynch, J.C., Donahoe, D. K., Attallah, H. and Rafols, J.A. Organization of the medial pulvinar nucleus in the macaque. Anat. Record., 250: 220-237. 19981998
Tian, J.-R. and Lynch, J.C. Subcortical input to the smooth and saccadic eye movement subregions of the frontal eye field in Cebus monkey. J. Neurosci., 17: 9233-9247. 19971997
Tian, J.-R. and Lynch, J.C. Cortico-cortical input to the smooth and saccadic eye movement subregions of the frontal eye field in the Cebus monkey. J. Neurophysiol., 76: 2754-2771. 19961996
Tian, J.-R. and Lynch, J.C. Functionally defined smooth and saccadic eye movement subregions in the frontal eye field of the Cebus monkey. J. Neurophysiol., 76: 2740-2753, 19961996
Tian, J.-R. and Lynch, J.C. Slow and saccadic eye movements evoked by microstimulation in the supplementary eye field of the Cebus monkey. J. Neurophysiol. 74: 2204-2210. 19951995
Lynch, J.C., Hoover, J.E., and Strick, P.L. Input to the primate frontal eye field from the substantia nigra, superior colliculus, and dentate nucleus demonstrated by transneuronal transport. Exp. Brain Res. 100:181-186. 19941994
Lynch, J.C. Saccade initiation and latency deficits after combined lesions of the frontal and posterior eye fields in monkeys. J. Neurophysiol. 68: 1913-1916. 19921992
Hardy, S.G.P. and J.C. Lynch. The spatial distribution of pulvinar neurons that project to two subregions of the inferior parietal lobule in the macaque. Cerebral Cortex 2: 217-230. 19921992
Lynch, J.C. and J.W. McLaren. Deficits of visual attention and saccadic eye movements after lesions of parieto-occipital cortex in monkeys. J. Neurophysiol. 61: 74-90. 19891989
Lynch, J.C. Frontal eye field lesions in monkeys disrupt visual pursuit. Exper. Brain Res. 68: 437-441. 19871987
Lynch, J.C., A.M. Graybiel and L.J. Lobeck. The differential projection of two cytoarchitectonic subregions of the inferior parietal lobule of macaque upon the deep layers of the superior colliculus. J. Comp. Neurol. 235: 241-254. 19851985
Lynch, J.C. Book review of "Brain Mechanisms of Perceptual Awareness and Purposeful Behavior", eds. O. Pompeiano and C. Ajmone Marsan, Trends in Neurosci. 6: 397-398,19831983
Lynch, J.C. and J.W. McLaren. Optokinetic nystagmus deficits following parieto-occipital cortex lesions in monkeys. Exper. Brain Res. 49: 125-130, 19831983
Lynch, J.C. The functional organization of posterior parietal association cortex. Behav. Brain Sci. 3: 485-534, 19801980
Lynch, J.C. The command function concept in studies of the primate nervous system. Behav. Brain Sci. 1: 31-32, 19781978
Lynch, J.C., V.B. Mountcastle, W.H. Talbot and T.C.-T. Yin. Parietal lobe mechanisms for directed visual attention. J. Neurophysiol. 40: 362-389, 19771977
Mountcastle, V.B., J.C. Lynch, A. Georgopoulos, H. Sakata and C. Acuña. The posterior parietal association cortex of the monkey: command functions for operations within extrapersonal space. J. Neurophysiol. 38: 871-908, 19751975
Dewson, J.H., III, K.H. Pribram and J.C. Lynch. Effects of ablations of temporal cortex upon speech sound discrimination in the monkey. Exper. Neurol. 24: 579-591. 19691969
Dewson, J.H., III, G.A. Wertheim and J.C. Lynch. Acquisition of successive auditory discrimination in monkeys. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 43: 162-163. 19681968
Cui, D.
Lynch, J.C.
Smith, A.D.
Wilson, T.D.
Lehman M.N Stereoscopic vascular models of the head and neck: a CT angiography (CTA) visualization
Lynch, J.C. and Tian, J.R. Cortico-cortical networks and cortico-subcortical loops for the higher control of eye movements. Progress in Brain Research, Vol 151: Neuroanatomy of the Oculomotor System, ed. J. Buettner-Ennever, Elsevier, New York, pp.461-501, 20062006
Lynch, J.C. This Week's Citation Classic: "Parietal association cortex: Sensory or beyond." (Behav. Brain Sci. 3: 485-534, 1980). Current Contents (Social and Behavioral Sciences) 23: 10. 19911991

Review Article

Lynch, J.C. A short history of the study of the interaction between oculomotor control and shifts of visual attention. Cognitive Critique, 2: 43-74, 2010

Abstracts

Cui, D.-M., Lynch, J.C., Yang, G.-C., and Haines, D.E. Creating Illustrations for Teaching of Neuroscience. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. Vol. 35, Program No. 2830, 20092009
Cui, D.-M., Lynch, J.C., Yang, G.-C., and Haines, D.E. Techniques of developing illustrations for histology teaching. Experimental Biology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 20092009
Cui, D.-M and Lynch, J.C. Contributions of the anterior intralaminar nuclei of the thalamus to cortico-subcortical oculomotor loops. Neural Control of Movement Annual Meeting, Abstracts, Vol.11, B-05. 20062006
Cui, D.-M. and Lynch, J.C. Cortical oculomotor projections to the subthalamic nucleus in monkeys. Program No. 138.17 2006 Neuroscience Meeting Planner, Atlanta, GA: Society for Neuroscience 20062006
Cui, D.-M. and Lynch, J.C. Neural connections of subregions of the frontal eye field with the intralaminar thalamic nuclei in monkeys. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. Vol. 31, Program No. 166.4. 20052005
Cui, D.-M. and Lynch J. C. Dynamic virtual models depict the relationship between the terminal fields of pursuit and saccade projections from the frontal eye field to the caudate and putamen in monkeys. 14th Annual Meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society, Sitges, Spain, March 28-April 3, 20042004
Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. Independent oculomotor loop circuits from the frontal eye field through the basal ganglia. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. Viewer 2004: Program No. 186.7 20042004
Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. A three dimensional model of the terminal fields in the caudate and putamen that are labeled by BDA injections in the pursuit and saccade subregions of the frontal eye. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci, 43: E-Abstracts 2650, 20022002
Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. Three-dimensional dynamic virtual models depict the relationship between pursuit and saccade projections from the frontal eye field to the striatum. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. Viewer 2002: Program No. 364.12. 20022002
Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D.-M., and Lynch, J.C. Direct projections from the saccade and pursuit subregions of the frontal eye field to the brainstem oculomotor related reticular formation. The FASEB Journal Abstracts 15: A1076, 20012001
Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D., and Lynch, J.C. Distribution of pontine terminals from saccade and smooth pursuit subregions of frontal eye field in Cebus monkeys. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 27, Program No. 404.2, 20012001
Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. Organization of projections from the frontal pursuit area to the putamen in cebus monkeys. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 27, Program No. 404.1, 20012001
Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J.C. Basal ganglia circuits related to visual pursuit in monkey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 26: 1717. 20002000
Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D.-M., and Lynch, J.C. Pursuit subregion of the frontal eye field projects directly to brainstem premotor areas in Cebus monkey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 26: 1717, 20002000
Cui, D.-M., Yan, Y.-J., and Lynch, J. C. The Caudate Nucleus is a Major Target of Visual Pursuit Signals from the Frontal Eye Field in Monkeys. Invest. Ophthal.Vis. Sci. 41:S307. 20002000
Yan, Y.-J., Cui, D.-M., and Lynch, J.C. Efferent targets of the pursuit subregion of the frontal eye field in Cebus monkey include the superior colliculus, pontine nuclei, and caudate nucleus Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 25:1397. 19991999
West, R.A., Lynch, J.C., and Strick, P.L. The inferior parietal lobule is the target of output from the superior colliculus, cerebellum, and hippocampus. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 25:1402, 19991999
West, R.A., Lynch, J.C., and Strick, P.L. Superior colliculus inputs to the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) in the monkey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 24: 418, 19981998
Lynch, J.C. and Tian, J.-R. Connections of the claustrum to functionally identified subregions of the frontal eye field and the supplemental eye field of Cebus monkeys. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 23: 474. 19971997
Lynch, J.C. Cortical networks for the control of purposeful eye movements. Proceedings, p. 4, Neural Control of Movement Meeting 19961996
Lynch, J.C., Tian, J.-R., and Chiemprabha, A.W. Individual neurons in the ventral anterior nucleus of the thalamus of Cebus monkeys project to both the supplementary eye field and the frontal eye field. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 22: 418, 19961996
Tian, J.-R. and Lynch, J.C. Parallel cortico-cortical networks for the control of pursuit and saccadic eye movements in monkeys. Proceedings, p. 26, Neural Control of Movement Meeting 19961996
Tian, J.-R. and Lynch, J.C. Corticocortical inputs to saccade and pursuit subregions of the frontal eye field in cebus monkey. Proceedings, 5th Annual Neural Control of Movement Meeting, p. 231995
Tian, J.-R., Liu, H., and Lynch, J.C. Thalamic input to the slow eye movement and saccadic eye movement subregions of the frontal eye field in cebus monkey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 21: 1195. 19951995
Tian, J.-R. and Lynch, J.C. Corticocortical inputs to two functionally defined subregions of the frontal eye field in cebus monkey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 20: 144, 19941994
Lynch, J.C., Attalah, H., Rafols, J.A., and Ma, T.P. Cytoarchitecture of the primate medial pulvinar nucleus. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 20: 145, 19941994
Lynch, J.C., J.E. Hoover, and P.L. Strick. Morphology and spatial distribution of superior colliculus neurons labeled by frontal eye field injections in monkey. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 34: 1137. 19931993
Lynch, J.C. Cortical networks for the control of eye movements Proceedings, Neural Control of Movement Meeting. 2: 3. 19921992
Lynch, J.C., J.E. Hoover, and P.L. Strick. The primate frontal eye field is the target of neural signals from the substantia nigra, superior colliculus, and dentate nucleus. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 18: 855. 19921992
Tian, J.-R., J.C. Lynch, and S.G.P. Hardy. Area LIP input to area 7a in the inferior parietal lobule of macaque. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 17: 1020. 19911991
Lynch, J.C., J.-R. Tian, and J.S. Touliatos. Saccade latency changes after lesions of the frontal eye fields and the posterior eye fields in monkeys. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 32: 1021. 19911991
Lynch, J.C. and R.M. Miller. Differential distribution of corticopontine fibers originating in areas concerned with visual pursuit. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 30S: 183, 19891989
Lynch, J.C. Pursuit Recovery after Frontal Eye Field Lesions in Monkeys. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 15: 1202. 19891989
Miller, R.M. and J.C. Lynch. The differential distribution of corticopontine terminals from two subregions of the inferior parietal lobule and from dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in monkeys. Anatom. Rec. 223: 80A, 19891989
Lynch, J.C. The Inferior Parietal Lobule: "An Essential Node in a Distributed Cerebral System" for Oculomotor Control. Proceedings, Neuroscience: Integrative Functions. A Symposium Honoring Vernon B. Mountcastle 19891989
Lynch, J.C., J.C. Allison, R.S. Hines and R.L. Roark. Oculomotor impairment following combined lesions of parieto-occipital cortex and frontal eye fields in rhesus monkeys. Neurosci. Abstr. 12: 1086, 19861986
Hardy, S.G.P. and J.C. Lynch. Projections from the pulvinar to subregions of the inferior parietal lobule in macaques. Neurosci. Abstr. 12: 456, 19861986
Lynch, J.C. The interaction of prefrontal and parieto-occipital cortex in the control of purposive eye movements in rhesus monkeys. Developments in Oculomotor Research. A satellite symposium of the XXX International Congress of Physiological Sciences. Proceedings, p. 37, 19861986
Lynch, J.C. and J.C. Allison. A quantitative study of visual pursuit deficits following lesions of the frontal eye fields in rhesus monkeys. Neurosci. Abstr. 11: 473, 19851985
Lynch, J.C., L.J. Lobeck and S.G.P. Hardy. The connectivity of the inferior parietal lobule with the pulvinar complex of the thalamus in rhesus monkey: patches and clusters. Neurosci. Letters 22: S304. 19851985
Lobeck, L.J., J.C. Lynch and S.G.P. Hardy. The connectivity of two subregions of the inferior parietal lobule with the pulvinar complex of the thalamus in the rhesus monkey. Neurosci. Abstr. 11: 677. 19851985
Lynch, J.C. and J.W. McLaren. A quantitative study of contralateral inattention in monkey following lesions of posterior parietal, prestriate, and prefrontal cortex. Neurosci. Abstr. 10: 59. 19841984
Lynch, J.C. and A.M. Graybiel. Comparison of afferents traced to the superior colliculus from the frontal eye fields and from two subregions of area 7 of the rhesus monkey. Neurosci. Abstr. 9: 750, 19831983
Lobeck, L.J., J.C. Lynch and N.L. Hayes. Neurons in attention-related regions of the cerebral cortex which project to intermediate and deep layers of superior colliculus of the rhesus monkey. Neurosci. Abstr. 9: 751. 19831983
Lynch, J.C. Neural mechanisms of attention. Neurosci. Abstr. 7: 720 . 19811981
Lynch, J.C. The role of parieto-occipital association cortex in oculomotor control. Exper. Brain Res. 41: A32. 19801980
McLaren, J.W. and J.C. Lynch. Vertical optokinetic nystagmus deficit following lesion of parieto-occipital association cortex in rhesus monkey. Neurosci. Abstr. 6: 475, 19801980
Lynch, J.C. and J.W. McLaren. Effects of lesions of parieto-occipital association cortex upon performance of oculomotor and attention tasks in monkeys. Neurosci. Abstr. 5: 794. 19791979
Lynch, J.C. and J.W. McLaren. Effects of posterior parietal lobe lesion on optokinetic nystagmus in rhesus monkey. Fed. Proc. 38: 899. 19791979
McLaren, J.W. and J.C. Lynch. Quantitative studies of optokinetic nystagmus in monkeys before and after lesions of parieto-occipital association cortex. Neurosci. Abstr. 5: 797. 19791979
Lynch, J.C. Neural correlates of contour enhancement recorded in primary somesthetic cortex of cat. Physiologist 21: 74, 19781978
Lynch, J.C., T.C.-T. Yin, W.H. Talbot and V.B. Mountcastle. A cortical source of command signals for visually evoked saccadic movements of the eyes. Neurosci. Abstr. 1: 59, 19751975
Yin, T.C.-T., J.C. Lynch, W.H. Talbot and V.B. Mountcastle. Neuronal mechanisms of the parietal lobe for directed visual attention, studies in waking monkeys. Neurosci. Abstr. 1: 59. 19751975
Lynch, J.C., H. Sakata, A. Georgopoulos and V.B. Mountcastle. Parietal association cortex neurons active during hand and eye tracking of objects in immediate extrapersonal space. Physiologist 16: 384. 19731973
Lynch, J.C., C. Acuña, H. Sakata, A. Georgopoulos and V.B. Mountcastle. The parietal association areas and immediate extrapersonal space Proceedings, Society for Neuroscience Third Annual Meeting, p. 244. 19731973
Dongmei Cui, James C. Lynch, Gongchao Yang, and Duane E. Haines. Integrating Anatomical and Clinical Illustrations in a Teaching Format. FASEB J. 2010 24:826.1, 2010

Book Chapter

Lynch, J.C. Oculomotor control: Anatomical pathways. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, ed. L.R. Squire, Oxford: Academic Press, pp. 17-23, 20092009
Lynch, J.C. The Cerebral Cortex. Fundamental Neuroscience, ed. D. Haines. (Third Edition) Churchill-Livingstone, ew York, 20062006
Lynch, J.C., Corbett, J.J., and Hutchins, J.B. The Visual System. Fundamental Neuroscience, ed. D. Haines. (Third Edition) Churchill-Livingstone, New York, 20062006
Lynch, J.C. The Cerebral Cortex. Fundamental Neuroscience, ed. D. Haines. (Second Edition) Churchill-Livingstone, New York, 20022002
Lynch, J.C. Columnar organization of the cerebral cortex. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Second Edition), ed. G. Adelman. Elsevier, Amsterdam 19981998
Lynch, J.C. Posterior parietal association cortex. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Second Edition), ed. G. Adelman. Elsevier, Amsterdam 19981998
Lynch, J.C. The Cerebral Cortex. Fundamental Neuroscience, ed. D. Haines. Churchill-Livingstone, New York, 19971997
Lynch, J.C. Columnar organization of the cerebral cortex. The Yearbook of the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, ed. G. Adelman. Birkhäuser, Boston, pp. 37-40, 19891989
Lynch, J.C. Posterior parietal association cortex. Speech and Language, eds. G. Adelman and D. Kimura. Birkhäuser, Boston, pp. 63-64, 19891989
Lynch, J.C. Posterior parietal association cortex. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, ed. G. Adelman. Birkhäuser, Boston, pp. 925-926. 19871987
Lynch, J.C. and J.W. McLaren. The contribution of parieto-occipital association cortex to the control of slow eye movements. Functional Basis of Ocular Motility Disorders, eds. G. Lennerstrand, D.S. Zee, and E. L. Keller, Wenner-Gren Symposium Series 37: 501-510, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 19821982
Lynch, JC The Cerebral Cortex. In: Fundamental Neuroscience, ed. D. Haines. (Fourth Edition) Churchill-Livingstone, New York, in press
Lynch JC, Corbett JJ The Visual System. In: Fundamental Neuroscience, ed. D. Haines. (Fourth Edition) Churchill-Livingstone, New York, in press

Book

Cui D-M, Naftel JP, Daley W P, Lynch JC, Fratkin JD, Haines DE, Yang G-C Atlas of Histology with Functional and Clinical Correlations Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2010.

Presentations

National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, All the right connections: What can oculomotor thalamus do for you?, 16th Annual Neural Control of Movement Meeting, Key Biscayne, Florida05/2006
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, A distributed cortical network for the control of voluntary eye movements, 14th Annual Meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society, Sitges, Spain03/2004
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Cortical Eye Fields: How Much More Than Motor?, 14th Annual Meeting of the Neural Control of Movement Society, Sitges, Spain03/2004
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Pursuit-related projections of the Frontal Eye Field to saccade-related centers in the subcortical oculomotor system., Neural Control of Movement 11th Annual Meeting, Seville, Spain03/2001
State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Distributed Networks in the Cerebral Cortex Control Voluntary Movement, UMC Research Seminar Series. University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS03/2000
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Cerebral cortex mechanisms of oculomotor control in monkeys and humans. First Sino-American Conference on Eye Movement Control., America-China Association for Neurology and Neuroscience Exchange, Chinese Education Association for International Exchange, and the General Hospital of the PLA., Beijing, P.R. China07/1999
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Functional neuroanatomy of visual perception, selective attention, and oculomotor control., Chinese Academy of Science, Xuan Wu Hospital Department of Neurology, and Beijing University., Beijing, P.R. China.11/1997
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Functional neuroanatomy of voluntary motor control. First Brain Imaging and Cognition Symposium, Chinese Academy of Science and Beijing Hospital Brain Imaging and Cognition Research Center, Beijing, P.R. China11/1997
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Parallel cortico-cortical neural networks control purposeful eye movements., Neuroscience Lecture Series, University Medical Center, Jackson, MS.06/1997
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Parallel cortico-cortical networks control purposeful saccadic and pursuit eye movements, Human Neurobiology Seminar Series, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA05/1997
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Brain lesion experiments in monkey cortical eye fields., Beijing Neurological Association, Beijing, P.R. China., Beijing, P.R. China.10/1996
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Recent advances in oculomotor research, Department of Neurology, Xuan Wu Hospital and Capital University of Medical Science, Beijing, P.R. China10/1996
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Recent advances in visual system anatomy and physiology research., Beijing Laboratory of Cognitive Science, University of Science and Technology of China and Chinese National Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China.10/1996
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Cortical Networks for the Control of Purposive Eye Movements, Neural Control of Movement meeting, Marco Island, FL04/1996
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Cortical Networks that Control Goal-Directed Eye Movements., The Brain Research Institute, UCLA.02/1996
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Cortical Networks that Control Purposeful Eye Movements., Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology., Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology.02/1996
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, The contribution of frontal and parietal cortical eye fields to tracking and saccadic eye movements in monkeys., The Brain Sciences Center, University of Minnesota and VA Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN05/1992
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Cortical Networks for the Control of Eye Movements, Neural Control of Movement meeting, Marco Island, FL04/1992
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Interaction between frontal and posterior cortical fields in the control of voluntary eye movements., Interdepartmental Neuroscience Seminar, SUNY-Syracuse.05/1991
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, The interaction of frontal and posterior eye fields in the control of eye movements in monkeys., Department of Anatomy, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, MD04/1991
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Frontal Eye Field Influence on Visual Pursuit in Monkeys., Birmingham Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, University of Alabama in Birmingham12/1990
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NEI-NIH, Bethesda, Maryland10/1989
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Department of Anatomy, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut02/1986
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland02/1986
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIH-NIMH, Bethesda, Maryland02/1986
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Department of Neurosurgery, Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, New York1986
State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Sensorimotor Integration: The Central Coding of Motor Behavior., Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Anaheim, California10/1984
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, The contribution of cortical association areas to oculomotor control., Anaheim, California, Sensorimotor Integration Special Interest Dinner at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience10/1984
State/Local Invited Seminars/Lectures, Oculomotor System: Cortico-Collicular Organization., Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Boston11/1983
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Organizer of the symposium Neural Mechanisms of Attention: Multiple Approaches to the Study of a Higher Nervous Function., Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, California.10/1981
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, Parietal lobe lesions and visual attention in monkeys., Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Los Angeles, California10/1981
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, The contribution of parieto-occipital association cortex to the control of slow eye movements., Functional Basis of Ocular Motility Disorders, Stockholm, Sweden.09/1981
Functions of the parietal cortex., Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, England08/1981
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, The parietal lobe and attention. A lecture given at a panel on The unilateral neglect syndrome, a Winter Conference on Brain Research, Kenneth M. Heilman, M.D., Chairman. January, 1981., Keystone, Colorado.1981
National and International Invited Seminars/Lectures, The role of parieto-occipital association cortex in oculomotor control. A lecture given at the Symposium on Visual Mechanisms in Primates and Lower Animals, Braunlage, West Germany., Organized by the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, West Germany.07/1980

Honors, Awards, and Recognition

Basic Science All-Star Teacher Award, University of Mississippi Medical Center2007
Selected as a Distinguished Mentor by Gold Humanism Society inductees2007
Honorary Professor, Graduate School of the University of Science and Technology, Beijing, P.R. China1997
Behavioral and Brain Sciences paper (1980) and two others selected as a "Citation Classic", Institute for Scientific Information1990
Andrew Mellon Foundation Career Development Award1974
NSF Graduate Fellowship1964
A.B. with Departmental Honors and General Honors1964
First Prize, Fidelity Educational Foundation Reseach Competition1963
Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society1962
O.M. Steward Scholarship in Physics, University of Missouri1960

Professional Membership and Service

AAAS
American - Chian Association for Neurology and Neuroscience Exchange
American Physilogical Society
Neural Control of Movement Society
Society for Neuroscience

Committee Service

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Graduate Program Steering Committee, Member2006 - Present
UMMC Intramural Research Support Program Review Committee, Member2006 - 2006
ad hoc Graduate Council Subcommittee for preparation for SACS evaluation, Member2005 - 2006
ad hoc Neuroscience subcommittee for M-1 curriculum revision, Member2004 - 2006
Search Committee for Chairman of Ophthalmology, Member2000 - 2001
Institutional Effectiveness Committee for institutional self-study in preparation for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation site visit., Member1998 - 2000
Department of Anatomy Graduate Education Committee, Chair1996 - 2006
Department of Anatomy Graduate Education Program, Director1996 - 2006
Graduate Council, Member1996 - 2006
Sterile Surgery Suite Oversight Committee, Department of Anatomy, Chair1996 - 2003
Student Evaluation and Promotion Committee, UMC School of Dentistry, Member1996 - 1999
Department of Anatomy Image Analysis Committee, Chair1991 - 1994
Anatomy Department Faculty Search Committee, Member1989 - 1990
Liaison Committee on Medical Education Task Force, Library Subcommittee, Member1989 - 1990
ad hoc Committee to Establish a Sterile Surgery Suite, Chair1987 - 1996
ad hoc Department of Anatomy Computer Acquisition Committee, Chair1987 - 1988
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, Organizing Coordinator1983 - 1988
Graduate Education Committee, Member1982 - Present
School Of Medicine - Graduate Medical Education, Member1982 - Present
School Of Medicine - Graduate Medical Education, Chair1982 - 1984
Division of Information Services ad hoc Strategic Planning for Basic Science Users Committee, Member

Other Service

Member, Neurology Research Coordinating Committee ad hoc Subcommittee to Develop a proposal for a Neurology Clinician-Investigator Program, Mayo Clinic, Member1980 - 1980
Director, Code Library of Physiology and Pharmacology, Mayo Clinic, Director1977 - 1979
Member, Education Committee, Department of Physiology, Mayo Clinic, Member1976 - 1980
Member, Neurology Research Coordinating Committee, Mayo Clinic, member1976 - 1980
Neuroscience Lecture Series Committee , Mayo Clinic, Chairman1976 - 1978

Teaching Experience

Medicine, Course, Guest Presenter, Advanced Biology (Bio 400 and 402, Belhaven)Fall 2004
Dentistry, Course, Team member, Dental Gross and Neuroanatomy (Anat 600)Fall 2004
601, Dentistry, Course, Guest Presenter, Dental Histology (Anatomy 601)Fall 2003
Nursing, Course, Guest Presenter, Psychiatric Mental Health nursing programFall 2003
722, Medicine, Course, Course Director, Advanced Topics in AnatomyFall 1996
Graduate, Course, Teacher, Anatomy 738Summer 1995
Graduate, Course, Co-coordinator, Anatomy 736Fall 1992
Medicine, Course, Participant, PhysiologyFall 1991
SHRP, Course, Guest Presenter, Physical Therapy 324Fall 1990
Dentistry, Course, Course Director, Dental NeuroanatomyFall 1989
Medicine, Course, Assistant Course Coordinator, Medical NeurobiologyFall 1987
Medicine, Course, Guest Presenter, Neurology, Neurosurgery, and OphthalmologySpring 1984
Medicine, Course, Coordinator of Clinical Lectures, Medical NeurobiologySpring 1982
Dentistry, Course, Team member, Dental NeuroanatomyFall 1981
Medicine, Course, Team member, Medical Neuroanatomy/NeurobiologySpring 1981
Medicine, Course, Guest participant, Medical NeuroscienceFall 1978
Medicine, Course, Guest Presenter, Ophthalmology, Neurology and NeurosurgeryFall 1976
Graduate, Course, Course Director, Physiology 8856Fall 1976
Medicine, Course, Demonstration-Discussion Section Leader, Medical Physiology courseFall 1974
Medicine, Course, Laboratory Assistant, Medical Physiology courseFall 1971
Graduate, Course, Course Director, Electrophysiology TechniquesFall 1968
Medicine, Course, Teaching assistant, General PsychologyFall 1963

Directed Student Learning

Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Junru Tian1990 - 1991
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Suzanne Y. Musil1989 - 1990
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Jay W. McLaren1977 - 1981
Internship Advisor, Advised: Dongmei Cui
Internship Advisor, Advised: Jose Lopez
Internship Advisor, Advised: Robert T. Tenny
Internship Advisor, Advised: Winston M. Campbell
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Kristin Weaver
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Lan Zhou
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Nan Lin
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Yue (Tracy) Wang
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Yuefeng (Jordan) Lu
Internship Advisor, Advised: Yi-jun Yan
Supervised Teaching Activity, Advised: Xiao-hong Si
Internship Advisor, Advised: Hao Liu
Internship Advisor, Advised: Wensi Sun
Internship Advisor, Advised: Junru Tian