Gary Muir Publications

Crisp, K. M., & Muir. G. M. (2012). Assessing development of an interdisciplinary perspective in an undergraduate neuroscience course. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 10(2), A88-A95.

Muir, G. M., & Cleary, A. M. (2011). Enhancing student engagement and learning using “Clicker”-based interactive classroom demonstrations. Book chapter for Best Practices for Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning: Connecting to Psychology and the Social Sciences, Oxford University Press.

Muir, G. M., Brown, J. E., Carey, J. P., Hirvonen, T. P., Della Santina, C. C., Minor, L. B., & Taube J. S. (2009). Disruption of the head direction cell signal after occlusion of the semicircular canals in the freely-moving Chinchilla. Journal of Neuroscience, 29(46), 14521–14533.

Muir, G. M., & van der Linden, G. J.* (2009). Students teaching students: An experiential learning opportunity for large introductory psychology classes in collaboration with local elementary schools. Teaching of Psychology, 36(3), 169-173.

Muir, G. M. & van Wylen, D. G. L. (2009). Facilities planning for the neuroscience curriculum at a primarily undergraduate institution: St. Olaf College’s Regents Hall of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 8(1), A73-A77.

Cousens, G. A., & Muir, G. M. (2006). Using extracellular single-unit electrophysiological data as a substrate for investigative laboratory exercises. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, 4(2), A68-A73.

Bassett, J. P., Zugaro, M., Muir, G. M., Golob, E. J., Wiener, S. I., Muller, R. U., & Taube, J. S. (2005). Passive movements of the head do not abolish anticipatory firing properties of head direction cells. Journal of Neurophysiology, 93 (3), 1304-1316.

Dudchenko, P. A., Muir, G. M., Frohardt, R. J., & Taube, J. S. (2005). What does the head direction cell system actually do? Book chapter in S. I. Wiener & J. S. Taube (Eds.), Head direction cells and the neural mechanisms underlying directional orientation. Cambridge, MA: MIT press.

Muir, G. M., & Taube, J. S. (2004). Head direction cell activity and behavior in a navigational task requiring a cognitive mapping strategy. Behavioural Brain Research, 153 (1), 249-253

Muir, G. M., & Bilkey, D. K. (2003). Theta- and movement velocity-related firing of hippocampal neurons is disrupted by lesions centered on the perirhinal cortex. Hippocampus, 13 (1): 93-108.

Muir, G. M., & Taube, J. S. (2002). The neural correlates of navigation: Do head direction and place cells guide spatial behavior? Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 1 (4): 297-317.

Muir, G. M., & Bilkey, D. K. (2001). Instability in the place field location of hippocampal place cells after lesions centered on the perirhinal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 21 (11): 4016-4025.

Bilkey, D. K., & Muir, G. M. (1999). A low cost, high precision subminiature microdrive for extracellular unit recording in behaving animals. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 92 (1-2): 87-90.

Muir, G. M., & Bilkey, D. K. (1998). Synchronous modulation of perirhinal cortex neuronal activity during cholinergically mediated (type II) hippocampal theta. Hippocampus, 8 (5): 526-532.