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Biography
AB Biological Sciences 1956, Stanford
PhD Electrical Engineering 1962, Stanford
1961-67: Member of research staff, Laboratory for Automata Research, Librascope Div,
General Precision Inc
Research on modeling of neuroelectric phenomena and
small neural networks
1967 - present: University of California, Berkeley.
Member, Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Graduate Groups in
Neurobiology, Biophysics and Bioengineering
1969-77 Director, Biomedical Engineering Training Program
1977-82 Associate Dean, Graduate Division
1982-83 Founded (with SA Berger and S Glantz) the Joint UCSF/UCB Graduate Group in Bioengineering
1988-91 Chairman of the Joint UCB/UCSF Graduate Group in Bioengineering
1988-96 Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Engineering
1994-99 Professor in the Graduate School, U.C. Berkeley.
1994-96 Established (with J Casey) the Engineering Science Undeclared option for enterring freshman
1999- Professor emeritus
Neurosciences Research Program Summer Fellow 1966, 1969
UC Berkeley Citation for Distinguished Teaching, 1972
Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award 1984
Fellow, Acoustical Society of America
The Berkeley Citation, 1997
Fellow (emeritus), Biomedical Engineering Society
Lewis ER, van Dijk P. (2003) New variations on the derivation of spectro-temporal receptive fields for primary auditory afferent axons. Hearing Res 186 30-46.
Lewis ER, Fay RR (2004) Environmental variables and the fundamental nature of hearing. In G Manley, A Popper, R Fay (eds) Evolution of Hearing, Springer Verlag, New York, pp 27-54.
Lewis ER (2004) Useful concepts from circuit theory. In G Manley, A Popper, R Fay (eds) Evolution of Hearing, Springer Verlag, New York, pp 369-400.
Lewis ER (2004) Neural nets: modeling, In G Adelman, BH Smith (eds) Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Elsevier, New York.
Lewis ER, Narins PM, Jarvis JUM, Bronner G, Mason MJ (2006) Preliminary evidence for the use of microseismic cues for navigation by the Namib golden mole. J Acoust Soc Am 119 1260-1268.
Lewis ER, MacGregor RJ (2006) On determinism, chaos, and small-number particle systems in the brain. J. Int Neurosci 5 223-247.
Sneary MG, Lewis ER (2007) Tuning properties of turtle auditory nerve fibers: Evidence for suppression and adaptation. Hearing Res 228 22-30.
Lewis ER, MacGregor RJ (2010) A natural science approach to consciousness. J. Int Neurosci 9 153-191.