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Prof. Dr. Kuno Kirschfeld

Address:	Spemannstr. 41 72076 Tübingen
Room number:	1.B.11
Phone:	+49 7071 601 580
Fax:	+49 7071 601 577
E-Mail:	kuno.kirschfeld

Kuno Kirschfeld

Position: Emeritus Unit: Alumni Kirschfeld

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Kuno Kirschfeld was director of the department Comparative Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics from 1968 till his retirement in 2002. His main research interests were the primary processes and photo transduction in the photoreceptors of insects, physiological optics, visual pigments and the ion regulation in the nervous system. He further compared the processing of visual information in insects and vertebrates and the influence of common anesthesia on the nervous system.

Conference papers (11):
•	Kirschfeld K (1969) Optics of the compound eye In: Processing of optical data by organisms and machines, International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi": Course XLIII, 1968, Academic Press, New York, NY, USA, 144-166.
•	Kirschfeld K (1968) The Musca compound eye In: Invertebrate Receptors, 23rd Symposium of the Zoological Society of London 1967, Academic Press, London, UK, 165-166.
•	Kirschfeld K (1966) Discrete and graded receptor potentials in the compond eye of the fly (Musca) In: The functional organization of the compound eye, International Symposium on the Functional Organization of the Compound Eye 1965, Pergamon Press, Oxford, UK, 291-307.
Contributions to books (10):
•	Kirschfeld K : Die Hierarchie von Gehirn und Geist, 243-268. In: Was bedeutet Leben?: Beiträge aus den Geisteswissenschaften, (Ed) U. Baumann, Lembeck, Frankfurt a. M., Germany, (2008).
•	Kirschfeld K : Photorezeption (periphere Sehorgane), 385-405. In: Neurowissenschaft: vom Molekül zur Kognition, (Ed) J. Dudel, Springer, Berlin, Germany, (2001).
•	Kirschfeld K : Course control and tracking: Orientation through image stabilization, 67-93. In: Orientation and communication in arthropods, (Ed) M. Lehrer, Birkhäuser, Basel, Switzerland, (1997).
•	Kirschfeld K : Photorezeption (periphere Sehorgane), 383-403. In: Neurowissenschaft: vom Molekül zur Kognition, (Ed) J. Dudel, Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1996).
•	Kirschfeld K : Bistable and photostable pigments in microvillar photoreceptors, 142-162. In: Sense Organs, (Ed) M.S. Laverack, Blackie, Glasgow, UK, (1981).
•	Kirschfeld K : The visual sytem of the fly: Physiological optics and functional anatomy as related to behavior, 297-310. In: The Neurosciences: Forth Study Program, (Ed) F.O. Schmitt, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, (1979).
•	Kirschfeld K : The Resolution of Lens and Compound Eyes, 354-370. In: Neural Principles in Vision, (Ed) F. Zettler, Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1976).
•	Kirschfeld K and Synder AW : Wave guide mode effects, birefringence and diochroism in fly receptors, 56-77. In: Photoreceptor optics, (Ed) A.W. Synder, Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1975).
•	Kirschfeld K : The visual system of Musca: Studies on optics, structure and function, 61-74. In: Information Processing in the Visual Systems of Arthropods, (Ed) R. Wehner, Springer, Berlin, Germany, (1972).
•	Braitenberg V and Kirschfeld K : Datenübertragung im Klomplexauge der Fliege, 105-113. In: Kybernetik: Brücke zwischen den Wissenschaften, (Ed) H. Frank, Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt a. M., Germany, (1970).
Posters (20):
•	Kirschfeld K (March-2006): The Hierarchy of Brain and Mind, 9th Tübingen Perception Conference (TWK 2006), Tübingen, Germany.
•	Kirschfeld K (May-2005): Alpha Waves: A new tool to investigate visual attention with high temporal resolution, Annual Meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO 2005), Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 46(Supplement) B857.
•	Kirschfeld K (October-2004): Linear and nonlinear components in alpha waves of the EEG and in visually evoked potentials (VEPs), 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2004), San Diego, CA, USA.
•	Kirschfeld K (February-2004): Can Visual Stimuli Affect the Phase of Brain Oscillations?, 7th Tübingen Perception Conference (TWK 2004), Tübingen, Germany.
•	Kirschfeld K , Sigala N and Logothetis NK (November-2001): Natural images: a lingua franca for primates?, 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2001), San Diego, CA, USA.
•	Kammer T , Lehr L and Kirschfeld K (February-1999): Zeitliche Dispersion im Sehsystem des Menschen, 2. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz (TWK 99), Tübingen, Germany.
•	Kirschfeld K and Kammer T (February-1998): Attention and metacontrast: a unifying concept, 1. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz (TWK 98), Tübingen, Germany.
•	Kammer T and Kirschfeld K (February-1998): Besteht eine topographische Beziehung von Skotom und Phosphen bei Magnetstimulation desvisuellen Kortex?, 1. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz (TWK 98), Tübingen, Germany.
•	Campenhausen M and Kirschfeld K (February-1998): Spectral sensitivity of stare nystagmus and smooth pursuit, 1. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz (TWK 98), Tübingen, Germany.
•	Campenhausen M and Kirschfeld K (December-1997): Spectral sensitivity of the large field optomotor system in man, Sixth Annual Meeting of the Israel Society for Neurosciences, Eilat, Israel, Neuroscience Letters, Supplement 48 S12.
•	Antkowiak B , Helfrich-Förster C , Pappe I and Kirschfeld K (May-1997): Cellular mechanisms of high frequency oscillations in the neocortex probed by general anaesthetics, 25th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany, From Membrane to Mind 616.
•	Kirschfeld K (May-1996): Information by cortical sub- and suprathreshold activity, 24th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany, Brain and Evolution, 2 428.
•	Schaerer S , Feiler R and Kirschfeld K (May-1996): Object perception in goldfish, 24th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany, Brain and Evolution, 2 386.
•	Kirschfeld K (February-1996): Automatic gain control by feedback oscillations: a mechanism that enables the nervous system to be fast?, 1. Kongress der Neurowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, Neuroforum, 2(Sonderausgabe) 166.
•	Schaerer S , Feiler R and Kirschfeld K (February-1996): Motion sensitivity to large-field stimuli in goldfish measured in a closed-loop paradigm, 1. Kongress der Neurowissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany, Neuroforum, 2(Sonderausgabe) 194.
•	Gewecke M , Kirschfeld K , Feiler R , Hartwieg E , Hengstenberg R and Lenz G (1987): Heuschrecken "sehen" Video-Filme, 15th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany, New Frontiers in Brain Research 148.
•	Vogt K and Kirschfeld K (May-1983): C40 Carotinoide in Fliegenaugen, 76. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Bonn, Germany, Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 76 330.
•	Vogt K and Kirschfeld K (June-1982): Die Quantenausbeute der Energieübertragung in Photorezeptoren von Fliegen, 75. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 75 337.
•	Kirschfeld K , Minke B and Franceschini N (June-1977): Hinweis auf ein "Antennenpigment" in Photorezeptoren von Fliegen, 70. Jahresversammlung der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, Erlangen, Germany, Verhandlungen der Deutschen Zoologischen Gesellschaft, 70 229.
•	Kirschfeld K (September-1962): Electrophysiological experiments in compound eyes, XXII International Congress of Physiological Sciences, Leiden, Netherlands, Information Processing in the Nervous System, 2 977.
Popular Scientific Articles (4):
•	Kirschfeld K : Stellungnahme zur Broschüre "Affenversuche" des Deutschen Tierschutzbundes e.V., Diskussionsbeitrag für den Landesbeirat für Tierschutz des Landes Baden-Württemberg(June-2007) 2007, 1-7.
•	Kirschfeld K : Ethisch nicht zu vertreten. Der Neurobiologe Kuno Kirschfeld: Embryonenschutzgesetz birgt unnötige gesundheitliche Risiken: Interview, Schwäbisches Tagblatt(December-1-2001), 30.
•	Kirschfeld K : Wann beginnt der Mensch, ein Mensch zu sein?, Süddeutsche Zeitung(November-17-2001) 265, II.
•	Kirschfeld K : Eine Zelle ist noch kein Mensch, Die Zeit(August-1991) 1991, 1-5.
Talks (1):
•	Kirschfeld K (September-1996): Information processing by cortical subtreshold and supratreshold activity, 19th European Conference on Visual Perception, Strasbourg, France, Perception, 25(ECVP Abstract Supplement) 2.