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Biography

Education

AB Biological Sciences 1956, Stanford
PhD Electrical Engineering 1962, Stanford

Professional Career

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

Activities at the University of California

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

Honors

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

Recent Publications

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.

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