Eric Fortune
About Me
Dr. Fortune has been interested in evolutionary biology since childhood. He is passionate about understanding the mechanisms and evolution of animal behavior.
Education
Ph.D.; University of Chicago; Biology; 1995
B.S.; University of Chicago; ; 1989
B.S.; University of Chicago; ; 1989
Website
Teaching Interests
Animal behavior and neuroscience
Past Courses
BIOL 150: LIVING IN A VARIABLE UNIVERSE
BIOL 200: CONCEPTS IN BIOLOGY
BIOL 337: COLLECTIVE INTEL IN BIOL SYST
BIOL 340: MAMMALIAN PHYSIOLOGY
BIOL 383: NEURAL BASIS OF BEHAVIOR
BIOL 447: CELLULAR&SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
BIOL 495: HONORS SEMINAR IN BIOLOGY
BIOL 612: COMPARATIVE ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY
BIOL 630: CRITICAL THINKING FOR LIFE SCI
BIOL 630: CRITICAL THINKING FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES
BIOL 200: CONCEPTS IN BIOLOGY
BIOL 337: COLLECTIVE INTEL IN BIOL SYST
BIOL 340: MAMMALIAN PHYSIOLOGY
BIOL 383: NEURAL BASIS OF BEHAVIOR
BIOL 447: CELLULAR&SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE
BIOL 495: HONORS SEMINAR IN BIOLOGY
BIOL 612: COMPARATIVE ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY
BIOL 630: CRITICAL THINKING FOR LIFE SCI
BIOL 630: CRITICAL THINKING FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES
Research Interests
Mechanisms of Animal Behavior
Journal Article
Uyanik, I, & Sefati, S, & Stamper, S, & Cho, K, & Ankarali, M, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2020). Variability in locomotor dynamics reveals the critical role of feedback in task control.. eLife, 9,
Uyanik, I, & Stamper, S, & Cowan, N, & Fortune, Eric (2019). Sensory Cues Modulate Smooth Pursuit and Active Sensing Movements.. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 13, 59.
Elie, J, & Hoffmann, S, & Dunning, J, & Coleman, M, & Fortune, Eric, & Prather, J (2019). From Perception to Action: The Role of Auditory Input in Shaping Vocal Communication and Social Behaviors in Birds.. Brain, behavior and evolution, 94(1-4), 51-60.
Coleman, Melissa, & Fortune, Eric (2018). Quick Guide: Duet singing in plain-tailed wrens. Current Biology, 28(11), 643-645.
Biswas, D, & Arend, L, & Stamper, S, & Vágvölgyi, B, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2018). Closed-Loop Control of Active Sensing Movements Regulates Sensory Slip.. Current biology : CB, 28(24), 4029-4036.e4.
Uyanik, I, & Stamper, S, & Cowan, N, & Fortune, Eric (2019). Sensory Cues Modulate Smooth Pursuit and Active Sensing Movements.. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 13, 59.
Elie, J, & Hoffmann, S, & Dunning, J, & Coleman, M, & Fortune, Eric, & Prather, J (2019). From Perception to Action: The Role of Auditory Input in Shaping Vocal Communication and Social Behaviors in Birds.. Brain, behavior and evolution, 94(1-4), 51-60.
Coleman, Melissa, & Fortune, Eric (2018). Quick Guide: Duet singing in plain-tailed wrens. Current Biology, 28(11), 643-645.
Biswas, D, & Arend, L, & Stamper, S, & Vágvölgyi, B, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2018). Closed-Loop Control of Active Sensing Movements Regulates Sensory Slip.. Current biology : CB, 28(24), 4029-4036.e4.
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Madhav, M, & Jayakumar, R, & Demir, A, & Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2018). High-resolution behavioral mapping of electric fishes in Amazonian habitats.. Scientific reports, 8(1), 5830.
Sutton, E, & Demir, A, & Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2016). Dynamic modulation of visual and electrosensory gains for locomotor control.. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 13(118),
Rouse, Jr, M, & Stevenson, T, & Fortune, Eric, & Ball, G (2015). Reproductive state modulates testosterone-induced singing in adult female European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).. Hormones and behavior, 72, 78-87.
Cowan, N, & Ankarali, M, & Dyhr, J, & Madhav, M, & Roth, E, & Sefati, S, & Sponberg, S, & Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Daniel, T (2014). Feedback control as a framework for understanding tradeoffs in biology.. Integrative and comparative biology, 54(2), 223-37.
Sefati, S, & Neveln, I, & Roth, E, & Mitchell, T, & Snyder, J, & Maciver, M, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2013). Mutually opposing forces during locomotion can eliminate the tradeoff between maneuverability and stability.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(47), 18798-803.
Madhav, M, & Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2013). Closed-loop stabilization of the Jamming Avoidance Response reveals its locally unstable and globally nonlinear dynamics.. The Journal of experimental biology, 216(Pt 22), 4272-84.
Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Chacron, M (2013). Perception and coding of envelopes in weakly electric fishes.. The Journal of experimental biology, 216(Pt 13), 2393-402.
Stamper, S, & Madhav, M, & Cowan, N, & Fortune, Eric (2012). Beyond the Jamming Avoidance Response: weakly electric fish respond to the envelope of social electrosensory signals.. The Journal of experimental biology, 215(Pt 23), 4196-207.
Stamper, S, & Roth, E, & Cowan, N, & Fortune, Eric (2012). Active sensing via movement shapes spatiotemporal patterns of sensory feedback.. The Journal of experimental biology, 215(Pt 9), 1567-74.
McGillivray, P, & Vonderschen, K, & Fortune, Eric, & Chacron, M (2012). Parallel coding of first- and second-order stimulus attributes by midbrain electrosensory neurons.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 32(16), 5510-24.
Fortune, Eric, & Rodríguez, C, & Li , D, & Ball, G, & Coleman, M (2011). Neural mechanisms for the coordination of duet singing in wrens.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6056), 666-70.
Khosravi-Hashemi, N, & Fortune, Eric, & Chacron, M (2011). Coding movement direction by burst firing in electrosensory neurons.. Journal of neurophysiology, 106(4), 1954-68.
Roth, E, & Zhuang, K, & Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2011). Stimulus predictability mediates a switch in locomotor smooth pursuit performance for Eigenmannia virescens.. The Journal of experimental biology, 214(Pt 7), 1170-80.
Chacron, M, & Fortune, Eric (2010). Subthreshold membrane conductances enhance directional selectivity in vertebrate sensory neurons.. Journal of neurophysiology, 104(1), 449-62.
Stamper, S, & Carrera-G, E, & Tan, E, & Fugère, V, & Krahe, R, & Fortune, Eric (2010). Species differences in group size and electrosensory interference in weakly electric fishes: implications for electrosensory processing.. Behavioural brain research, 207(2), 368-76.
Chacron, M, & Toporikova, N, & Fortune, Eric (2009). Differences in the time course of short-term depression across receptive fields are correlated with directional selectivity in electrosensory neurons.. Journal of neurophysiology, 102(6), 3270-9.
Fortune, Eric, & Chacron, M (2009). From molecules to behavior: organismal-level regulation of ion channel trafficking.. PLoS biology, 7(9), e1000211.
Hitschfeld, E, & Stamper, S, & Vonderschen, K, & Fortune, Eric, & Chacron, M (2009). Effects of restraint and immobilization on electrosensory behaviors of weakly electric fish.. ILAR journal, 50(4), 361-72.
Carver, S, & Roth, E, & Cowan, N, & Fortune, Eric (2008). Synaptic plasticity can produce and enhance direction selectivity.. PLoS computational biology, 4(2), e32.
Cowan, N, & Fortune, Eric (2007). The critical role of locomotion mechanics in decoding sensory systems.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 27(5), 1123-8.
Ramcharitar, J, & Tan, E, & Fortune, Eric (2006). Global electrosensory oscillations enhance directional responses of midbrain neurons in eigenmannia.. Journal of neurophysiology, 96(5), 2319-26.
Fortune, Eric (2006). The decoding of electrosensory systems.. Current opinion in neurobiology, 16(4), 474-80.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G, & Kawasaki, M (2006). Encoding and processing biologically relevant temporal information in electrosensory systems.. Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 192(6), 625-35.
Tan, E, & Nizar, J, & Carrera-G, E, & Fortune, Eric (2005). Electrosensory interference in naturally occurring aggregates of a species of weakly electric fish, Eigenmannia virescens.. Behavioural brain research, 164(1), 83-92.
Ramcharitar, J, & Tan, E, & Fortune, Eric (2005). Effects of global electrosensory signals on motion processing in the midbrain of Eigenmannia.. Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 191(9), 865-72.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (2003). Voltage-gated Na+ channels enhance the temporal filtering properties of electrosensory neurons in the torus.. Journal of neurophysiology, 90(2), 924-9.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (2002). Roles for short-term synaptic plasticity in behavior.. Journal of physiology, Paris, 96(5-6), 539-45.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (2001). Short-term synaptic plasticity as a temporal filter.. Trends in neurosciences, 24(7), 381-5.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (2000). Short-term synaptic plasticity contributes to the temporal filtering of electrosensory information.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 20(18), 7122-30.
Rose, G, & Fortune, Eric (1999). Frequency-dependent PSP depression contributes to low-pass temporal filtering in Eigenmannia.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 19(17), 7629-39.
Rose, G, & Fortune, Eric (1999). Mechanisms for generating temporal filters in the electrosensory system.. The Journal of experimental biology, 202(Pt 10), 1281-9.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (1997). Passive and active membrane properties contribute to the temporal filtering properties of midbrain neurons in vivo.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 17(10), 3815-25.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (1997). Temporal filtering properties of ampullary electrosensory neurons in the torus semicircularis of Eigenmannia: evolutionary and computational implications.. Brain, behavior and evolution, 49(6), 312-23.
Rose, G, & Fortune, Eric (1996). New techniques for making whole-cell recordings from CNS neurons in vivo.. Neuroscience research, 26(1), 89-94.
Fortune, Eric, & Margoliash, D (1995). Parallel pathways and convergence onto HVc and adjacent neostriatum of adult zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).. The Journal of comparative neurology, 360(3), 413-41.
Margoliash, D, & Fortune, Eric, & Sutter, M, & Yu, A, & Wren-Hardin, B, & Dave, A (1994). Distributed representation in the song system of oscines: evolutionary implications and functional consequences.. Brain, behavior and evolution, 44(4-5), 247-64.
Fortune, Eric, & Margoliash, D (1992). Cytoarchitectonic organization and morphology of cells of the field L complex in male zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata).. The Journal of comparative neurology, 325(3), 388-404.
Margoliash, D, & Fortune, Eric (1992). Temporal and harmonic combination-sensitive neurons in the zebra finch's HVc.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 12(11), 4309-26.
Sutton, E, & Demir, A, & Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2016). Dynamic modulation of visual and electrosensory gains for locomotor control.. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface, 13(118),
Rouse, Jr, M, & Stevenson, T, & Fortune, Eric, & Ball, G (2015). Reproductive state modulates testosterone-induced singing in adult female European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris).. Hormones and behavior, 72, 78-87.
Cowan, N, & Ankarali, M, & Dyhr, J, & Madhav, M, & Roth, E, & Sefati, S, & Sponberg, S, & Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Daniel, T (2014). Feedback control as a framework for understanding tradeoffs in biology.. Integrative and comparative biology, 54(2), 223-37.
Sefati, S, & Neveln, I, & Roth, E, & Mitchell, T, & Snyder, J, & Maciver, M, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2013). Mutually opposing forces during locomotion can eliminate the tradeoff between maneuverability and stability.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 110(47), 18798-803.
Madhav, M, & Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2013). Closed-loop stabilization of the Jamming Avoidance Response reveals its locally unstable and globally nonlinear dynamics.. The Journal of experimental biology, 216(Pt 22), 4272-84.
Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Chacron, M (2013). Perception and coding of envelopes in weakly electric fishes.. The Journal of experimental biology, 216(Pt 13), 2393-402.
Stamper, S, & Madhav, M, & Cowan, N, & Fortune, Eric (2012). Beyond the Jamming Avoidance Response: weakly electric fish respond to the envelope of social electrosensory signals.. The Journal of experimental biology, 215(Pt 23), 4196-207.
Stamper, S, & Roth, E, & Cowan, N, & Fortune, Eric (2012). Active sensing via movement shapes spatiotemporal patterns of sensory feedback.. The Journal of experimental biology, 215(Pt 9), 1567-74.
McGillivray, P, & Vonderschen, K, & Fortune, Eric, & Chacron, M (2012). Parallel coding of first- and second-order stimulus attributes by midbrain electrosensory neurons.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 32(16), 5510-24.
Fortune, Eric, & Rodríguez, C, & Li , D, & Ball, G, & Coleman, M (2011). Neural mechanisms for the coordination of duet singing in wrens.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6056), 666-70.
Khosravi-Hashemi, N, & Fortune, Eric, & Chacron, M (2011). Coding movement direction by burst firing in electrosensory neurons.. Journal of neurophysiology, 106(4), 1954-68.
Roth, E, & Zhuang, K, & Stamper, S, & Fortune, Eric, & Cowan, N (2011). Stimulus predictability mediates a switch in locomotor smooth pursuit performance for Eigenmannia virescens.. The Journal of experimental biology, 214(Pt 7), 1170-80.
Chacron, M, & Fortune, Eric (2010). Subthreshold membrane conductances enhance directional selectivity in vertebrate sensory neurons.. Journal of neurophysiology, 104(1), 449-62.
Stamper, S, & Carrera-G, E, & Tan, E, & Fugère, V, & Krahe, R, & Fortune, Eric (2010). Species differences in group size and electrosensory interference in weakly electric fishes: implications for electrosensory processing.. Behavioural brain research, 207(2), 368-76.
Chacron, M, & Toporikova, N, & Fortune, Eric (2009). Differences in the time course of short-term depression across receptive fields are correlated with directional selectivity in electrosensory neurons.. Journal of neurophysiology, 102(6), 3270-9.
Fortune, Eric, & Chacron, M (2009). From molecules to behavior: organismal-level regulation of ion channel trafficking.. PLoS biology, 7(9), e1000211.
Hitschfeld, E, & Stamper, S, & Vonderschen, K, & Fortune, Eric, & Chacron, M (2009). Effects of restraint and immobilization on electrosensory behaviors of weakly electric fish.. ILAR journal, 50(4), 361-72.
Carver, S, & Roth, E, & Cowan, N, & Fortune, Eric (2008). Synaptic plasticity can produce and enhance direction selectivity.. PLoS computational biology, 4(2), e32.
Cowan, N, & Fortune, Eric (2007). The critical role of locomotion mechanics in decoding sensory systems.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 27(5), 1123-8.
Ramcharitar, J, & Tan, E, & Fortune, Eric (2006). Global electrosensory oscillations enhance directional responses of midbrain neurons in eigenmannia.. Journal of neurophysiology, 96(5), 2319-26.
Fortune, Eric (2006). The decoding of electrosensory systems.. Current opinion in neurobiology, 16(4), 474-80.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G, & Kawasaki, M (2006). Encoding and processing biologically relevant temporal information in electrosensory systems.. Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 192(6), 625-35.
Tan, E, & Nizar, J, & Carrera-G, E, & Fortune, Eric (2005). Electrosensory interference in naturally occurring aggregates of a species of weakly electric fish, Eigenmannia virescens.. Behavioural brain research, 164(1), 83-92.
Ramcharitar, J, & Tan, E, & Fortune, Eric (2005). Effects of global electrosensory signals on motion processing in the midbrain of Eigenmannia.. Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology, 191(9), 865-72.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (2003). Voltage-gated Na+ channels enhance the temporal filtering properties of electrosensory neurons in the torus.. Journal of neurophysiology, 90(2), 924-9.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (2002). Roles for short-term synaptic plasticity in behavior.. Journal of physiology, Paris, 96(5-6), 539-45.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (2001). Short-term synaptic plasticity as a temporal filter.. Trends in neurosciences, 24(7), 381-5.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (2000). Short-term synaptic plasticity contributes to the temporal filtering of electrosensory information.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 20(18), 7122-30.
Rose, G, & Fortune, Eric (1999). Frequency-dependent PSP depression contributes to low-pass temporal filtering in Eigenmannia.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 19(17), 7629-39.
Rose, G, & Fortune, Eric (1999). Mechanisms for generating temporal filters in the electrosensory system.. The Journal of experimental biology, 202(Pt 10), 1281-9.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (1997). Passive and active membrane properties contribute to the temporal filtering properties of midbrain neurons in vivo.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 17(10), 3815-25.
Fortune, Eric, & Rose, G (1997). Temporal filtering properties of ampullary electrosensory neurons in the torus semicircularis of Eigenmannia: evolutionary and computational implications.. Brain, behavior and evolution, 49(6), 312-23.
Rose, G, & Fortune, Eric (1996). New techniques for making whole-cell recordings from CNS neurons in vivo.. Neuroscience research, 26(1), 89-94.
Fortune, Eric, & Margoliash, D (1995). Parallel pathways and convergence onto HVc and adjacent neostriatum of adult zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata).. The Journal of comparative neurology, 360(3), 413-41.
Margoliash, D, & Fortune, Eric, & Sutter, M, & Yu, A, & Wren-Hardin, B, & Dave, A (1994). Distributed representation in the song system of oscines: evolutionary implications and functional consequences.. Brain, behavior and evolution, 44(4-5), 247-64.
Fortune, Eric, & Margoliash, D (1992). Cytoarchitectonic organization and morphology of cells of the field L complex in male zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata).. The Journal of comparative neurology, 325(3), 388-404.
Margoliash, D, & Fortune, Eric (1992). Temporal and harmonic combination-sensitive neurons in the zebra finch's HVc.. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 12(11), 4309-26.
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Electric fishes: neural systems, behaviour and evolution.
The Journal of experimental biology, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2013
The Journal of experimental biology, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2013