Students and Postdocs

» 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.    http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/

» Ad Aertsen    This lab studies theoretical neuroscience, spiking neural networks, temporal processing and dynamic coding.    http://www.brainworks.uni-freiburg.de/

» 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    http://www.cns-berlin.org/People/herz

» 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background knowledge about learning and memory (with an emphasis on associative learning) together with published and unpublished original research on the fruitfly Drosophila and (soon) the sea-slug Aplysia.    http://brembs.net/

» Christopher Walsh    Researching the development and function of the cerebral cortex and the genes involved in this process. From the Harvard Institutes of Medicine.    http://www.bidmc.harvard.edu/neurology/walshlab/

» Claudia Schmauss    The Laboratory at Columbia University performs neurobiology research on dopamine receptors.    http://www.schmauss-lab.com/

» 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.    http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/batlab/

» Cynthia L. Jordan    The Jordan lab works on cellular and molecular mechanims underlying steroid-regulated behaviors.    http://www.msu.edu/~breedsm/cj.htm

» Cyril Pernet    studies statistics, human neurophysiology and neuroimaging. The webpage provides a user guide for fMRI analysis using SPM2.    http://membres.lycos.fr/wamcyril/

» 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.    http://www.purveslab.net

» 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-inspi    http://lis.epfl.ch/member.php?SCIPER=111729

» 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.    http://www.fitzpatricklab.net

» 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.    http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/

» David Tam    A physiologist studying computational and experimental neuroscience problems.    http://www.david.tam.name

» David Tolhurst    My research interests are in the area of the neurophysiology and psychophysics of vision.    http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/tolhurst/

» Dittmar, Michael    Research on stroke, anesthesiology, and out-of-hospital emergency medicine.    http://www-nw.uni-regensburg.de/~.dim14809.anaest.klinik.uni-regensburg.de/

» Dmitri Chklovskii    Interested in developmental pattern generation or ways of describing coupled networks of genes and neurons.    http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/chklovskii.html

» Donald Sakaguchi    Researches development and plasticity in vertebrate visual systems    http://www.public.iastate.edu/~zoogen/saklab.html

» Dwight Bergles    The Laboratory at Johns Hopkins studies synaptic physiology, with an emphasis on glutamate transporters and glial involvement in neuronal signaling.    http://www.bergleslab.com/

» 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.    http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/adelson/

» Ed Boyden    Analysis and engineering of neural circuit function.    http://edboyden.org

» Eduardo Candelario-Jalil    The lab is using neurochemical approaches to study phenomena such as brain injury and regeneration.    http://www.freewebs.com/candelariojalil/

» 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 proce    http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~eero/

» Elba Serrano    Focuses on the development of the nervous system, with an emphasis on the sensory systems responsible for hearing and balance.    http://biology-web.nmsu.edu/serrano/neurolab/neurolab.html

» Elie Bienenstock    Elie Bienenstock is interested in temporal coding by individual action potentials.    http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/elie/page.html

» Francesco Ventriglia    Working at the Institute of Cybernetics of CNR. Working on projects related to parallel computer simulation of neurotransmitter difusion and neural network.    http://biocib.cib.na.cnr.it/Ventriglia/ventriglia.html

» Frank LaFerla    Researches the molecular biology of neurodegenerative disorders.    http://neurobiology.bio.uci.edu/faculty/laferla/laferla.htm

» Fred Gage    The Gage lab works on adult neural stem cells.    http://www-biology.ucsd.edu/faculty/gage.html

» 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.    http://lnc.usc.edu/~holt/

» Georg Schulze    Motivational psychology from an engineering perspective with biological contraints. Behavioral modeling. Resonance Raman spectroscopy of neurotransmitters. Artificial neural networks.    http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/schulze/Georg_SchulzeHP.htm

» Giedrius Buracas    addresses the origins of the BOLD signal measured when applying fMRI. He is also interested in temporal codes.    http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~giedrius/

» 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    http://www.agri.huji.ac.il/~mgutnick

» 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.    http://hlab.phys.rug.nl/

» Hilary Beggs    The Beggs lab works on signal transduction, cell morphology, and extracellular influences on circuit development in the retina.    http://www.ucsf.edu/beggs/

» Huda Zoghbi    The Zoghbi lab works on neural development and neurodegeneration.    http://www.bcm.edu/db/db_fac-zoghbi.html

» Jürgen Schmidhuber    Has done important work on regularization of neural networks. Also addresses processing long short term memory and optimal learning.    http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/

» Jack Gallant    The Gallant lab studies the neural basis of vision and visual perception, with particular emphasis on object vision, and visual selective attention.    http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/users/users_profile.php?rid=12

» Jeff Henderson    Researching the molecular mechanisms which regulate neuronal injury and survival following acute or chronic CNS insults.    http://www.phm.utoronto.ca/~jeffh/henderson.htm

» Jennifer Raymond    The Raymond lab does research on the mechanisms of motor learning in a simple cerebellar task.    http://www.stanford.edu/group/raymondlab/

» 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.    http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/jachimow/

» Jianguo Gu    Studies on spinal cord sensory transmission using patch-clamp, immunocytochmistry and molecular biology approaches.    http://plaza.ufl.edu/jggjgg/

» Jim Trimmer    Research laboratory studying molecular organization of neuronal signaling proteins.    http://www.sunysb.edu/biochem/BIOCHEM/facultypages/trimmer/index.html

» John Taylor    Mathematical modelling in neurobiology, Neural computation and neural bases of behaviour, High energy physics and superstrings, quantum field theory and quantum gravity.    http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~jgtaylor/index.htm

» 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 c    http://www.umass.edu/neuro/faculty/files/moore.html

» Josh Tenenbaum    Studies how people use statistical methods when solving cognitive problems.    http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html

» Julie Grezes    Dr. Grezes studies neural bases of social phenomena such as action perception, emotions, and theory of mind.    http://www.juliegrezes.com

» Jörg Conradt    Does robotics research at institute of neuroinformatics. He is interested in novel types of robots, pattern generation, control and navigation.    http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~conradt/

» 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.    http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/svoboda3.html

» Karl Deisseroth    Studies hippocampal neurogenesis.    http://www.stanford.edu/~deissero/

» Kaushik Ghose    Behavioural experiments on flying bats. Beam patterns. Neural models.    http://www.wam.umd.edu/~kghose/research.html

» 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.    http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~xscr/

» 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 &    http://phy.ucsf.edu/~ken/

» 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.    http://ni.cs.tu-berlin.de/

» Klaus Pawelzik    does theoretical neuroscience tightly bound to electrophysiological measurements.    http://www-neuro.physik.uni-bremen.de/~pawelzik/

» Klaus-Armin Nave    Prof. Dr. Nave uses transgenic mouse and molecular/cellular techniques to study neural development and the neurodegenerative pathogenesis.    http://www.nave.de/

» Konrad Körding    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.    http://www.kording.eu

» Laurent Itti    Focus in visual neuroscience, approached using computational modeling, human psychophysics and functional neuroimaging. In particular, studies on visual attention in primates.    http://ilab.usc.edu/

» 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    http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgaanl/

» Luis R. Cruz Cruz    studies Alzheimers disease at the Center for Polymer Studies at Boston University    http://polymer.bu.edu/cruz/

» Maneesh Sahani    Focuses on the statistical analysis of neural data and the design of experiments in neuroscience.    http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~maneesh/

» 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    http://www.msu.edu/~breedsm

» Mark Dubin    Applies virtual reality to neural rehabilitation.    http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/index.html

» Mark Laubach    The lab uses methods for large-scale neuronal ensemble recording to study neuronal processing in multiple parts of the nervous system simultaneously.    http://spikelab.jbpierce.org/

» 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 brai    http://mit.edu/org/w/wilsonlab/

» Matthew Larkum    My research interests focus on the roll of dendritic processing in networks of cortical neurons.    http://www.physio.unibe.ch/~larkum/

» Maurizio Grimaldi    Information includes curriculum vitae, publications, research interest description, address, and links.    http://www.mauriziogrimaldi.net/

» Michael Hausser    Works on how neuronal dendrites perform computations.    http://www.ucl.ac.uk/wibr/3/research/neuro/mh/mh.htm

» Michael Mauk    works on how timed information is encoded in the cerebellum.    http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/mmauk/

» Michael Nikoletseas    Scientist working on nonassosiative and associative learning phenomena.    http://www.greekads.com/nikoletseas/

» Michale Fee    Understanding how the brain learns and generates complex sequential behaviors, with a focus on the songbird as a model system.    http://web.mit.edu/feelab/

» 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 analyze    http://www.shef.ac.uk/bms/research/juusola

» Morgan Sheng    Studies synaptic structure, function, and plasticity.    http://web.mit.edu/picower/faculty/sheng.html

» 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.    http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/dafny

» Nathan Intrator    Neural Computation, High Dimensional Statistics and Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Visual Cortex Plasticity, Time series prediction    http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~nin/

» Nordeen, Ernest J.    Hormonal regulation of neural plasticity and learning, with a focus on the songbird system.    http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/ernie/ernie.html

» Nordeen, Kathy W.    Studies neural plasticity, learning, memory, with a focus on vocal learning in songbirds.    http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/knordeen/knordeen.html

» Pam Reinagel    Pam Reinagel studies how patterns of activity in populations of visual neurons encode information about visual scenes, epsecially naturalistic ones.    http://www.biology.ucsd.edu/labs/reinagel/

» Patrick Hoyer    Patrick Hoyer works on ICA (independent component analysis) and nonlinear variants thereof.    http://www.cis.hut.fi/~phoyer/

» Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil    Addresses very basic questions on cellular and molecular mechanisms of proliferation and differentiation in the central nervous system.    http://www2.umdnj.edu/cblabweb/

» 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.    http://www.greenspine.ca

» Paul Glimcher    The Glimcher lab studies the neural mechanisms underlying choice behavior using a combination of electrophysiological, behavioral, and neuroimaging techniques.    http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~glimcher/

» Paul Harrison    His group is studying gene expression in psychiatric disorders in the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry.    http://www.psychiatry.ox.ac.uk/mng/

» Peter Dayan    Builds mathematical and computational models of neural processing, with a particular emphasis on representation and learning. The main focus is on reinforcement learning and unsupervised learning, covering the ways that animals come to choose appropriate    http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~dayan/

» 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    http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~peterk/

» Peter Lansbury    From the Center for Neurologic Diseases and Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.    http://lansbury.bwh.harvard.edu

» Peter Latham    Computational neuroscience and neural coding.    http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~pel/

» Pouget, Alexandre    The Pouget lab works on the computational neuroscience of spatial representation, visual perception, and neural coding.    http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/alex/

» Quentin Huys    He is interested in the mechanisms that have led to neural tissue being able to control complex organisms. Photography is another artistic way of slicing the timeline and recombining it for analysis.    http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~qhuys/

» 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 in    http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~rao/

» 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 pr    http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/

» Reza Shadmehr    The Shadmehr lab works on motor control and learning, robotics, brain imaging, and neurophysiology.    http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~reza/

» Richard Hahnloser    Richard Hahnloser is doing theory on recurrent systems and songbird physiology.    http://hebb.mit.edu/people/rh/

» Richard Tsien    The Tsien lab does research on synaptic transmission, signal transduction, and pathophysiology of calcium channels.    http://www.stanford.edu/group/Tsienlab/

» Robert Fern    Research on ischemic injuries in the neonatal brain.    http://faculty.washington.edu/bobfern/index.html

» Rodney Douglas    Rodney Douglas addresses information processing in the neocortex. He is the head of the institute of neuroinformatics in Zurich.    http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~rjd/

» 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, an    http://psychology.psy.bris.ac.uk/people/rolandbaddeley.htm

» Ruedi Stoop    The Stoop group works on statistical neural networks, biological complexity, self-organized clustering and perception, and hearing biophysics.    http://stoop.net/group

» Ruth Herbst    The laboratory of Dr. Ruth Herbst focuses on the formation of the neuromuscular synapse. Specific topics and research areas are described.    http://www.univie.ac.at/brainresearch/herbst

» Sam Roweis    Machine Learning , Nonlinear Manifolds , Signal Processing , DNA Computing    http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~roweis/

» Sami Ikonen    The role of the septohippocampal cholinergic system in cognitive functions - a doctoral thesis.    http://www.uku.fi/neuro/54the.htm

» Sander Bohte    Neuroscientist in Amsterdam related to coding by action potentials as well as pattern recognition.    http://www.cwi.nl/~sbohte/

» Shawn Mikula    does experiments and theories to study coincidence detection as well as connectivity. He uses simulation methods as well as fMRI.    http://brainmeta.com/index.php?q=mikula

» 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    http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/laugh.htm

» Stephen Grossberg    Vision, audition, language, learning and memory, reward and motivation, cognition, development, sensory-motor control, mental disorders, applications.    http://cns-web.bu.edu/Profiles/Grossberg.html

» Stephen Maren    Fear, conditioned learning behavior, and the neurophysiology of the amygdala. Research summaries, related links. Rat behavior animation.    http://www-personal.umich.edu/~maren/marenlab.html

» 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.    http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/sb.html

» Theo Geisel    Nonlinear dynamics, chaotic systems, neural networks    http://www.chaos.gwdg.de/theo/

» Thomas J. Anastasio    Our goal is to gain deeper insight into multisensory integration and motor learning using computational neuroscience methodology.    http://csn.beckman.uiuc.edu

» 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    http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/zador.html

» 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.    http://biocib.cib.na.cnr.it/Maharhajan/maha.html

» Vialatte, Francois    PhD in cognitive neuroscience research. Includes publications.    http://fbv.site.voila.fr/

» Vibhanshu Abhishek    is interested in Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, (humanoid) Robotics, Psychology    http://www.geocities.com/vibhanshu/

» Vito Di Maio    The projects carried out at the Institute of Cybernetics are mainly related to neurocomputation and visual perception of geometrical figures.    http://biocib.cib.na.cnr.it/DiMaio/dimaio.html

» Werner Rathmayer    Overview of the research in our lab at the University of Constance, Germany, covering research in invertebrate neuroscience.    http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Bio/research/Arbeitsgruppen/Rathmayer/Homepage/index_eng.htm

» William H. Calvin    A theoretical neurophysiologist and author of The Cerebral Code, How the Brain Thinks.    http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/

» Winfried Denk    Biomedical optics, two-photon microscopy, and imaging of neuronal activity.    http://www.mpg.de/cgi-bin/mpg.de/person.cgi?nav=kontakt&inst=medizinische_forschung&persId=166764&lang=en

» Wiskott, Laurenz    Face recognition, Invariances in learning and vision.    http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~wiskott/homepage.html

» 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 neu    http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/NEU/dany.html

» Yasir el Sherif    Information on ATP, melatonin, 8-OH-DPA, and magnetic fields in the nervous system.    http://www.angelfire.com/yt/yas709neuroscience/

» 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.    http://www.bio.miami.edu/zlu/index.html