NPB Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior

Barbara Chapman
Associate Professor
Center for Neuroscience
1544 Newton Court
530.754.5012
bxchapman (at) ucdavis (dot) edu

Degrees:
B.A., Biology, Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, 1984
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, 1991

Teaching Interests:
Neuroscience

Research Interests:
Development of connections and functional architecture in the vertebrate central nervous system.

Selected Publications:
Chapman, B. and T. Bonheoffer. 1998. Overrepresentation of horizontal and vertical orientation preferences in developing ferret area 17. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 95: 2609-2614.

Chapman, B., M.P. Stryker and T. Bonhoeffer. 1996. Development of orientation preference maps in ferret primary visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 16(20)6443-6453.

Chapman, B. and L.S. Stone. 1996. Turning a blind eye to cortical receptive fields. Neuron 16:9-12.

Antonini, A., M.P. Stryker and B. Chapman. 1995. Development and plasticity of cortical columns and their thalamic input. Maturational Windows and Adult Cortical Plasticity (Bela Julesz and Ilona Kovacs, Editors), Santa Fe Institute, Studies in the Sciences of Complexity, Proceedings Volume XXIV, Reading, MA, Adison-Wesley.

Chapman, B. and M. P. Stryker. 1993. Development of orientation selectivity in ferret visual cortex and effects of deprivation. Journal of Neuroscience, 13:5251-5262.

Affiliation:
Center for Neuroscience