Cheryl A Logan
Biographic Data
| ID | 225043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl A Logan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl A |
| FAMILY NAME | Logan |
| SIGNATURE | LOGAN C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7639-4956 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Engrams and biological regulation: What was “wrong” with organic memory
The idea that offspring could inherit attributes or dispositions that their parents had acquired is associated with the thinking of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. But the early twentieth century saw several attempts to modernize the concept as a form of “organic” memory. I focus on one uncommonly comprehensive attempt, that of the German morphologist Richard Semon. Semon’s case is instructive because, despite an evidence-based approach that drew on cell …
Shaping and owning the boundaries of a book
Cheryl Logan uses examples from her recent book, Hormones, Heredity, and Race, to discuss the importance of establishing conceptual boundaries, as writers develop book projects. The conceptual clarity of a book's central thesis and transitions to key subthemes that enrich its structure can both benefit from well-crafted edges that exclude some topics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)
Raising the Murinae Standard
The legacy of Adolf Meyer’s comparative approach: Worcester rats and the strange birth of the animal model
Making mice: Standardizing animals for American biomedical research, 1900-1955
Pavlov's physiology factory: Experiment, interpretation, laboratory enterprise
When scientific knowledge becomes scientific discovery: The disappearance of classical conditioning before Pavlov
In the nineteenth century, scientific materials in experimental physiology changed dramatically. In this context, phenomena that had been widely accepted were lost, sometimes to be reintroduced later as “discoveries.” I describe the loss of the phenomenon of classical conditioning, later rediscovered by Ivan Pavlov. In 1896, Austrian physiologist Alois Kreidl demonstrated experimentally that animals anticipate the occurrence of food that is cued …
The altered rationale for the choice of a standard animal in experimental psychology: Henry H. Donaldson, Adolf Meyer, and "the" albino rat
The altered rationale for the choice of a standard animal in experimental psychology: Henry H. Donaldson, Adolf Meyer, and "the" albino rat
The mid 20th-century dominance of albino rats in nonhuman experimental psychology research often presumed that the animal embodied fundamental psychological processes that could generalize to a wide range of vertebrates. The author describes the conceptual basis for the original choice of white rats by the 2 individuals most responsible for establishing rats as a prominent animal model in the life sciences at the turn of the century: Henry H. Don…
Independence of Mouse-Killing and Intermale Dominance Induced by Competitive Fighting in Rats
Male rats were tested for mouse-killing and then placed in pairs composed of one killer and one non-killer, to assess intermale dominance induced by food competition. Stable dominance relations developed in all pairs considered. A rat's status as a killer or non-killer was not, however, predictive of success in competition for food. Killers dominated in five of 11 pairs; while non-killers prevailed in the remaining six. A second experiment assess…
The altered rationale for the choice of a standard animal in experimental psychology: Henry H. Donaldson, Adolf Meyer, and "the" albino rat
The mid 20th-century dominance of albino rats in nonhuman experimental psychology research often presumed that the animal embodied fundamental psychological processes that could generalize to a wide range of vertebrates. The author describes the conceptual basis for the original choice of white rats by the 2 individuals most responsible for establishing rats as a prominent animal model in the life sciences at the turn of the century: Henry H. Don…
Pavlov's physiology factory: Experiment, interpretation, laboratory enterprise
The legacy of Adolf Meyer’s comparative approach: Worcester rats and the strange birth of the animal model
Independence of Mouse-Killing and Intermale Dominance Induced by Competitive Fighting in Rats
Male rats were tested for mouse-killing and then placed in pairs composed of one killer and one non-killer, to assess intermale dominance induced by food competition. Stable dominance relations developed in all pairs considered. A rat's status as a killer or non-killer was not, however, predictive of success in competition for food. Killers dominated in five of 11 pairs; while non-killers prevailed in the remaining six. A second experiment assess…
The altered rationale for the choice of a standard animal in experimental psychology: Henry H. Donaldson, Adolf Meyer, and "the" albino rat
The altered rationale for the choice of a standard animal in experimental psychology: Henry H. Donaldson, Adolf Meyer, and "the" albino rat
The mid 20th-century dominance of albino rats in nonhuman experimental psychology research often presumed that the animal embodied fundamental psychological processes that could generalize to a wide range of vertebrates. The author describes the conceptual basis for the original choice of white rats by the 2 individuals most responsible for establishing rats as a prominent animal model in the life sciences at the turn of the century: Henry H. Don…
When scientific knowledge becomes scientific discovery: The disappearance of classical conditioning before Pavlov
In the nineteenth century, scientific materials in experimental physiology changed dramatically. In this context, phenomena that had been widely accepted were lost, sometimes to be reintroduced later as “discoveries.” I describe the loss of the phenomenon of classical conditioning, later rediscovered by Ivan Pavlov. In 1896, Austrian physiologist Alois Kreidl demonstrated experimentally that animals anticipate the occurrence of food that is cued …
Pavlov's physiology factory: Experiment, interpretation, laboratory enterprise
Raising the Murinae Standard
The legacy of Adolf Meyer’s comparative approach: Worcester rats and the strange birth of the animal model
Making mice: Standardizing animals for American biomedical research, 1900-1955
Shaping and owning the boundaries of a book
Cheryl Logan uses examples from her recent book, Hormones, Heredity, and Race, to discuss the importance of establishing conceptual boundaries, as writers develop book projects. The conceptual clarity of a book's central thesis and transitions to key subthemes that enrich its structure can both benefit from well-crafted edges that exclude some topics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)
Engrams and biological regulation: What was “wrong” with organic memory
The idea that offspring could inherit attributes or dispositions that their parents had acquired is associated with the thinking of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. But the early twentieth century saw several attempts to modernize the concept as a form of “organic” memory. I focus on one uncommonly comprehensive attempt, that of the German morphologist Richard Semon. Semon’s case is instructive because, despite an evidence-based approach that drew on cell …
Psychology (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (4 works) · Biology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Experimental psychology (3 works) · Neuroscience (3 works)