Homepages of scientists and labs addressing the structure and the functioning of the nervous system. Students & Postdocs (6) 1. Aapo Hyvarinen - Involved in developing independent component analysis (ICA). Page supplies papers and code for reproducing experiments. Addresses generative model based vision and statistics of natural scenes. 2. Ad Aertsen - This lab studies theoretical neuroscience, spiking neural networks, temporal processing and dynamic coding. 3. Allison Doupe - Lab analyzes how the nervous system mediates behavior, especially complex behaviors that must be learned. Birdsong is the model system used for these studies. 4. Andreas Bartels NEW! - Using imaging methods to understand information processing in the human brain. 5. Andreas Engel - Known for the "binding by synchrony" hypothesis. Interested in temporal processing in particular at 40Hz. This lab does electrophysiology driven by computational ideas. 6. Andreas Herz - Addresses Signal Processing and Coding in the Brain. Functional Role of Neural Oscillations and Rapid Synchronization , Model Systems with Spiking Neurons: Dynamics and Computation 7. Christopher Walsh - Researching the development and function of the cerebral cortex and the genes involved in this process. From the Harvard Institutes of Medicine. 8. Claudia Schmauss - The Laboratory at Columbia University performs neurobiology research on dopamine receptors. 9. Cynthia F. Moss - Advancing our understanding of how sensory information is processed, organized, and integrated with motor programs, with a focus on bat auditory processing. 10. Cyril Pernet - studies statistics, human neurophysiology and neuroimaging. The webpage provides a user guide for fMRI analysis using SPM2. 11. David Fitzpatrick - The Laboratory at Duke University Medical Center is focused on understanding the functional organization of circuits in primary visual cortex, an important component in processing visual information. 12. David Mumford - David Mumford is working on similarity metrics and on statistics of natural scenes. He links the properties of the real world to propertie of neurons in the nervous system. 13. David Tam - A physiologist studying computational and experimental neuroscience problems. 14. Dittmar, Michael - Research on stroke, anesthesiology, and out-of-hospital emergency medicine. 15. Dmitri Chklovskii - Interested in developmental pattern generation or ways of describing coupled networks of genes and neurons. 16. Dr Shah-Naz Hayat Khan - Neurosurgeon and neuroscience researcher. 17. Dwight Bergles - The Laboratory at Johns Hopkins studies synaptic physiology, with an emphasis on glutamate transporters and glial involvement in neuronal signaling. 18. Ed Adelson - Ed Adelson focuses on topics in human and machine vision, including mid-level vision, lightness perception, motion analysis, perceptual organization, and image data compression. 19. Eduardo Candelario-Jalil - The lab is using neurochemical approaches to study phenomena such as brain injury and regeneration. 20. Eero Simoncelli - The laboratory addresses a variety of basic issues in the analysis and representation of visual imagery. 1) construction of mathematical theories for the representation of visual information, 2) development of functional models for biological visual processing, and 3) creation of novel algorithms for image processing and computer vision applications. 21. Elie Bienenstock - Elie Bienenstock is interested in temporal coding by individual action potentials. 22. Francesco Ventriglia - Working at the Institute of Cybernetics of CNR. Working on projects related to parallel computer simulation of neurotransmitter difusion and neural network. 23. Frank Tennigkeit - electrophysiolgy on slices and pharmacology 24. Fred Gage - The Gage lab works on adult neural stem cells. 25. Gary Holt - Our goal is to devise learning rules that can develop a feature-detector hierarchy similar to that proposed by Fukushima et al. (1983) in order to recognize objects independent of location, scale, or orientation. 26. Geoffrey Boynton - We are interested in the neural correlates of human visual perception. We make use of a relatively new technique for measuring brain responses in humans called Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging or fMRI. 27. Georg Schulze - Motivational psychology from an engineering perspective with biological contraints. Behavioral modeling. Resonance Raman spectroscopy of neurotransmitters. Artificial neural networks. 28. Gutnick-Fleidervish Laboratory - Research programs and members of the laboratory of Prof. Mike Gutnick and Dr. Ilya Fleidervish in the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, The Hebrew University, Rehovot, Israel 29. Hans van Hateren - I am working on several aspects of visual processing. My current main interest is to use the statistics of natural stimuli (images, time series of intensities, video) for investigating and understanding the visual system. 30. Jürgen Schmidhuber - Has done important work on regularization of neural networks. Also addresses processing long short term memory and optimal learning. 31. Jack Gallant - The Gallant lab studies the neural basis of vision and visual perception, with particular emphasis on object vision, and visual selective attention. 32. Jianguo Gu - Studies on spinal cord sensory tranmission using patch-clamp, immunocytochmistry and molecular biology approaches. 33. John Taylor - Mathematical modelling in neurobiology, Neural computation and neural bases of behaviour, High energy physics and superstrings, quantum field theory and quantum gravity. 34. John W. Moore - This lab studies a simple form of associative learning - classical eyeblink conditioning in rabbits - using a variety of approaches: behavioral, computational, and neurophysiological. Recent work has focused on neuronal activity of the cerebellum during complex training procedures. 35. Jonas Frisén - Department of Cell and Molecular Biology. Studies on the development of the nervous system and the continued neurogenesis from neural stem cells in the adult. 36. Julie Grezes NEW! - Dr. Grezes studies neural bases of social phenomena such as action perception, emotions, and theory of mind. 37. Karel Svoboda - Karel Svoboda is addressing the functioning of the nervous system using two photon microscopy. His page summarizes the research goal of understanding network function from an understanding of the nerve cells properties. 38. Keith Sillar - The group studies locomotion at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Studies on the development and intrinsic mechanisms behind the neural control of vertebrate locomotion. 39. Ken Miller - My lab's interests focus on understanding the cerebral cortex. We use theoretical and computational methods, and theoretically motivated experimental methods, to unravel the circuitry of the cerebral cortex, the rules by which this circuitry develops or "self-organizes", and the computational functions of this circuitry. 40. Klaus Obermayer - The NI group focuses on computational models of neuronal systems, on the mathematical analysis of neural networks, and on the development of ANN algorithms, in particular for image processing applications. 41. Klaus Pawelzik - does theoretical neuroscience tightly bound to electrophysiological measurements. 42. Klaus-Armin Nave - Prof. Dr. Nave uses transgenic mouse and molecular/cellular techniques to study neural development and the neurodegenerative pathogenesis. 43. Laurent Itti - Focus in visual neuroscience, approached using computational modeling, human psychophysics and functional neuroimaging. In particular, studies on visual attention in primates. 44. Loesch, Dr Andrzej - Relationship between the autonomic nervous system and the vascular system, mechanisms underlying disease in human arteries, cerebral and coronary arteries. Relevant to clinical medicine. Saphenous vein for CABG, and neurodegenerative diseases. University College London. 45. Luis R. Cruz Cruz - studies Alzheimers disease at the Center for Polymer Studies at Boston University 46. Luke Remage-Healey - Investigating the neuroendocrine mechanisms of behavior, using vocalizing fish and social bird models. 47. Matt Wilson - What are the mechanisms of learning and memory? How are actions and experiences encoded in the activity patterns of neurons in the brain? In the Wilson Lab we are addressing these questions through multineuron recording from the hippocampus and other brain areas of rats and mice during active behavior. 48. Matthew Larkum - My research interests focus on the roll of dendritic processing in networks of cortical neurons. 49. Michael Hausser - Works on how neuronal dendrites perform computations. 50. Michael Nikoletseas - Scientist working on nonassosiative and associative learning phenomena. 51. Mikko Juusola - studies processing in visual neurons of Drosophila as well as effects of molecular components on neural computations and sensory adaptation. Influence of rearing and environment on signalling is studied and signalling during natural stimulation is analyzed and modeled. 52. Nachum Dafny / Alan Swann - The Dafny/Swann lab works on the neuronal mechanisms and pathways involved with drug addiction, with a focus on rodent models. 53. Nathan Intrator - Neural Computation, High Dimensional Statistics and Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Visual Cortex Plasticity, Time series prediction 54. Patrick Hoyer - Patrick Hoyer works on ICA (independent component analysis) and nonlinear variants thereof. 55. Paul Harrison - His group is studying gene expression in psychiatric disorders in the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry. 56. Peter König - Experimental and theoretical studies of sensory processing and sensory motor integration in the mammalian cortex under natural conditions.Thus, I investigate the role of top-down signals, their relation to the fast dynamics, learning and plasticity in the neuronal network. Insights obtained from this work are transferred to real-world applications. 57. Peter Lansbury - From the Center for Neurologic Diseases and Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. 58. Rajesh Rao - The primary goal of my research is to discover the computational principles underlying the brain's remarkable ability to learn, process and store information, and to apply this knowledge to the task of building adaptive robotic systems and artificially intelligent agents. 59. Randall O'Reilly - He develops computational and formal models of the biological bases of cognition , focusing on specialization of function in and interactions between hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, and posterior neocortex in learning, memory, attention, and controlled processing. 60. Reza Shadmehr - The Shadmehr lab works on motor control and learning, robotics, brain imaging, and neurophysiology. 61. Richard Hahnloser - Richard Hahnloser is doing theory on recurrent systems and songbird physiology. 62. Rodney Douglas - Rodney Douglas addresses information processing in the neocortex. He is the head of the institute of neuroinformatics in Zurich. 63. Roland Baddeley - He is interested in many things including neural network techniques, the statistics of naturally generated spike trains in V1 and IT and the implications for coding, eye movements, stereo interactions in V1, timing behaviour, reading in young children, and the statistics of natural images. 64. Ruedi Stoop - The Stoop group works on statistical neural networks, biological complexity, self-organized clustering and perception, and hearing biophysics. 65. Ruth Herbst - The laboratory of Dr. Ruth Herbst focuses on the formation of the neuromuscular synapse. Specific topics and research areas are described. 66. S. Marc Breedlove - Studies the effect of steroid hormones on the developing and adult nervous system, including the sexual differentiation of the developing brain and spinal cord, as well as the activation of plasticity in the adult nervous system. 67. Sam Roweis - Machine Learning , Nonlinear Manifolds , Signal Processing , DNA Computing 68. Sander Bohte - Neuroscientist in Amsterdam related to coding by action potentials as well as pattern recognition. 69. Shawn Mikula - does experiments and theories to study coincidence detection as well as connectivity. He uses simulation methods as well as fMRI. 70. Stephen Grossberg - Vision, audition, language, learning and memory, reward and motivation, cognition, development, sensory-motor control, mental disorders, applications. 71. Stephen Maren - Fear, conditioned learning behavior, and the neurophysiology of the amygdala. Research summaries, related links. Rat behavior animation. 72. Sue Becker - Computational neuroscience, neural network models of perceptual and cognitive processes including cortical and hippocampal memory systems, spatial memory, semantic memory organization, frontal executive control of memory. 73. Theo Geisel - Nonlinear dynamics, chaotic systems, neural networks 74. Thomas J. Anastasio - Our goal is to gain deeper insight into multisensory integration and motor learning using computational neuroscience methodology. 75. Tony Zador - At a cocktail party we can selectively attend to a single voice, effortlessly filtering out all the others that make up the banter that surrounds us; yet this task remains far beyond the capabilities of our most sophisticated computers. How do the neurons in our brains conspire to form such powerful computational engines? 76. William H. Calvin - A theoretical neurophysiologist and author of The Cerebral Code, How the Brain Thinks. 77. Wiskott, Laurenz - Face recognition, Invariances in learning and vision. 78. Yang Dan - Goal is to understand the structure, function and plasticity of the mammalian visual system. Uses a combination of electrophysiological, psychophysical, and computational techniques to analyze how visual information is coded in the spiking activity of neurons in the visual cortex. 79. Yi Rao - Cell-cell interactions are studied that control neuronal migration, identify extracellular molecular cues that guide the direction of neuronal migration, and investigate intracellular signal transduction mechanisms that mediate cellular responses to extracellular cues. 80. Zhongmin Lu - Laboratory (P.I. - Dr. John Lu) that focuses on mechanisms of hearing in fish, including directional and ultrasonic hearing, and neurotoxin effects on hearing. 81. Abdelkader Ennaceur - This lab studies the role of cortical and sub-cortical structures in learning, memory and attention. 82. Ann Graybiel - Works on the basal ganglia, including systems-level, molecular, and clinically relevant studies. 83. Björn Brembs - Features a wealth of background knowledge about learning and memory (with an emphasis on associative learning) together with published and unpublished original research on the fruitfly Drosophila and (soon) the sea-slug Aplysia. 84. Bruno Olshausen - The lab relates the function of the nervous system to the statistics of natural scenes. On his page he supplies scientific papers and software relating sparse coding. 85. Christoph Kayser - The lab studies the statistical regularities of natural scenes, how they relate to the response properties of cortical cells and quantifies the impact of global stimulus structure on visual cortical activity. 86. Cynthia L. Jordan - The Jordan lab works on cellular and molecular mechanims underlying steroid-regulated behaviors. 87. Dale Purves - the Purves laboratory is studying visual perception and its neurobiological underpinnings. Shows a lot of interactive demos of psychophysical effects and optical illusions. 88. Dario Floreano - Goal is to develop methods for evolving embedded intelligent systems, such as Autonomous Robots, capable of adaptation to physical environments. Interested in artificial sensory-motor systems that display life-like properties and are based upon bio-inspired mechanisms (genetics, cellular biology, neural networks, bio-morphic engineering). 89. David Tolhurst - My research interests are in the area of the neurophysiology and psychophysics of vision. 90. Donald Sakaguchi NEW! - Researches development and plasticity in vertebrate visual systems 91. Ed Boyden - Analysis and engineering of neural circuit function. 92. Elba Serrano NEW! - Focuses on the development of the nervous system, with an emphasis on the sensory systems responsible for hearing and balance. 93. Frank LaFerla NEW! - Researches the molecular biology of neurodegenerative disorders. 94. Gaute Einevoll - My present research activity is within biological physics where I focus on mathematical modeling of neural systems. The goal is to increase the understanding of how the behavior of biological systems is determined by the collective behavior of many cells. 95. Giedrius Buracas - addresses the origins of the BOLD signal measured when applying fMRI. He is also interested in temporal codes. 96. Hilary Beggs - The Beggs lab works on signal transduction, cell morphology, and extracellular influences on circuit development in the retina. 97. Huda Zoghbi - The Zoghbi lab works on neural development and neurodegeneration. 98. Jeff Henderson NEW! - Researching the molecular mechanisms which regulate neuronal injury and survival following acute or chronic CNS insults. 99. Jennifer Raymond - The Raymond lab does research on the mechanisms of motor learning in a simple cerebellar task. 100. Jerzy Achimowicz - Digital signal processing (DSP) is applied to the analysis of electro-physiological signals (such as EEG), with emphasis on human brain electrical activity. From the State Committee for Scientific Research; Warsaw, Poland. 101. Jim Trimmer - Research laboratory studying molecular organization of neuronal signaling proteins. 102. Josh Tenenbaum - Studies how people use statistical methods when solving cognitive problems. 103. Juanita Anders - Research on low power laser irradiation, spinal cord injury research and diabetes. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology. 104. Jörg Conradt - Does robotics research at institute of neuroinformatics. He is interested in novel types of robots, pattern generation, control and navigation. 105. Karl Deisseroth - Studies hippocampal neurogenesis. 106. Kaushik Ghose - Behavioural experiments on flying bats. Beam patterns. Neural models. 107. Konrad Körding NEW! - Neuroscientist doing both experiments and theory at the Instistute of Neurology, London. Specializes in Bayesian Statistics and Statistics of Natural scenes. Applications to Visual, Somatosensory, Auditory and Motor problems. 108. Marc Breedlove, Cynthia Jordan - The lab studies hormonal modulation of the developing and adult nervous system that leads to changes in behavior. Using a range of rodent species, the lab tries to understand which cells directly respond to the hormone, which genes are regulated in those cells, and how the structure and function of the cell changes as a consequence of that gene regulation 109. Mark Dubin NEW! - Applies virtual reality to neural rehabilitation. 110. Mark Laubach - The lab uses methods for large-scale neuronal ensemble recording to study neuronal processing in multiple parts of the nervous system simultaneously. 111. Maurizio Grimaldi - Information includes curriculum vitae, publications, research interest description, address, and links. 112. Michael Mauk - works on how timed information is encoded in the cerebellum. 113. Michale Fee - Understanding how the brain learns and generates complex sequential behaviors, with a focus on the songbird as a model system. 114. Morgan Sheng - Studies synaptic structure, function, and plasticity. 115. Nordeen, Ernest J. - Hormonal regulation of neural plasticity and learning, with a focus on the songbird system. 116. Nordeen, Kathy W. - Studies neural plasticity, learning, memory, with a focus on vocal learning in songbirds. 117. Pam Reinagel - Pam Reinagel studies how patterns of activity in populations of visual neurons encode information about visual scenes, epsecially naturalistic ones. 118. Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil NEW! - Addresses very basic questions on cellular and molecular mechanisms of proliferation and differentiation in the central nervous system. 119. Paul De Koninck - The lab investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms used by neurons to decode synaptic and electrical activities that propagate through neural circuits. 120. Paul Glimcher - The Glimcher lab studies the neural mechanisms underlying choice behavior using a combination of electrophysiological, behavioral, and neuroimaging techniques. 121. Peter Latham - Computational neuroscience and neural coding. 122. Pouget, Alexandre - The Pouget lab works on the computational neuroscience of spatial representation, visual perception, and neural coding. 123. Richard Tsien - The Tsien lab does research on synaptic transmission, signal transduction, and pathophysiology of calcium channels. 124. Robert Fern - Research on ischemic injuries in the neonatal brain. 125. Ronald Harris-Warrick - Information on the lab, the team, on projects, methods and spiny lobsters. 126. Sami Ikonen - The role of the septohippocampal cholinergic system in cognitive functions - a doctoral thesis. 127. Simon Laughlin - Simon Laughlin addresses optimal coding, the cost of action potentials and more generally relates the properties of nervous systems to ethological optimisation and constraints 128. Synaptic Plasticity in Health and Disease Research Group NEW! - The laboratory is currently investigating the synaptic and cellular deficits that underlie cognitive dysfunction in Huntington's Disease. 129. Veeramani Maharhajan - Working at the Institute of Cybernetic of CNR. Included current working projects mainly related to the himmunohystochemistry of hippocampal piramidal cells; the effect of maternal drug abuse on neonatal rodents. 130. Vibhanshu Abhishek - is interested in Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, (humanoid) Robotics, Psychology 131. Vito Di Maio - The projects carried out at the Institute of Cybernetics are mainly related to neurocomputation and visual perception of geometrical figures. 132. Werner Rathmayer - Overview of the research in our lab at the University of Constance, Germany, covering research in invertebrate neuroscience. 133. Winfried Denk - Biomedical optics, two-photon microscopy, and imaging of neuronal activity. 134. Yasir el Sherif - Information on ATP, melatonin, 8-OH-DPA, and magnetic fields in the nervous system.

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