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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.
Abdelkader Ennaceur - This lab at the University of Sunderland studies cognition and emotion in rats and mice exposed to novelty and open spaces, and the underlying physiological, neuroanatomical and molecular bases of fear and anxiety.
Ad Aertsen - This lab studies theoretical neuroscience, spiking neural networks, temporal processing and dynamic coding.
Allison Doupe - Lab analyzes how the nervous system mediates behavior, especially complex behaviors that must be learned, studying the neural basis of vocal learning in songbirds.
Andreas Bartels - Using imaging methods to understand information processing in the human brain.
Andreas Engel - Work at the 40Hz Lab is focused on the dynamics of neural processing, from single cells to perception and behavior.
Andreas Herz - Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin. Main research interest is the dynamics and information processing in neural systems.
Ann Graybiel - Research at the Graybiel Lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, is focused on trying to understand how activity states of the forebrain are controlled and modulated during motor activity, procedural learning and cognition.
Bjorn 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background knowledge about learning and memory (with an emphasis on associative learning) together with published and unpublished original research on the fruitfly Drosophila and the sea-slug Aplysia.
Brandi Ormerod - Research at the Stem Cell Research Lab at the University of Florida is focused on how neuron addition impacts behavior and on how systems-level regulators influence neurogenesis and gliogenesis.
Breedlove Jordan Lab - This lab at Michigan State University is researching the hormonal modulation of the developing and adult nervous system that leads to changes in behavior.
Bruno Olshausen - Research at the lab concentrates on trying to understand how we organize sensory information in order to build meaningful representations of objects, sounds and surface textures in the environment.
Christoph Kayser - Work combines behavioral and electrophysiological studies with functional imaging in order to understand how the brain combines the input from the different sensory systems into a coherent whole.
Christopher Walsh - Researching the development and function of the cerebral cortex and the genes involved in this process. From the Harvard Institutes of Medicine.
Claudia Schmauss - The Laboratory at Columbia University performs neurobiology research on dopamine receptors.
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.
Cynthia L. Jordan - The Jordan lab works on cellular and molecular mechanims underlying steroid-regulated behaviors.
Cyril Pernet - Studies statistics, human neurophysiology and neuroimaging. Provides a user guide for fMRI analysis using SPM2.
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.
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).
David Cox - The Visual Neuroscience Group at Harvard studies the neurophysiology of natural visual systems in an effort to build better artificial ones
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.
David Mumford - Research is on similarity metrics, statistics of natural scenes and pattern theory.
David Tam - A physiologist studying computational and experimental neuroscience problems.
David Tolhurst - My research interests are in the area of the neurophysiology and psychophysics of vision.
Dittmar, Michael - Research on stroke, anesthesiology, and out-of-hospital emergency medicine.
Dmitri Chklovskii - Interested in developmental pattern generation or ways of describing coupled networks of genes and neurons.
Donald Sakaguchi - Researches development and plasticity in vertebrate visual systems
Dwight Bergles - The Laboratory at Johns Hopkins studies synaptic physiology, with an emphasis on glutamate transporters and glial involvement in neuronal signaling.
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.
Ed Boyden - Analysis and engineering of neural circuit function.
Eduardo Candelario-Jalil - The lab is using neurochemical approaches to study phenomena such as brain injury and regeneration.
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.
Elba Serrano - Focuses on the development of the nervous system, with an emphasis on the sensory systems responsible for hearing and balance.
Elie Bienenstock - Elie Bienenstock is interested in temporal coding by individual action potentials.
Eunice Yuen - Research focuses on the regulation of neurotransmitter receptors, and the implications of abnormal receptor activity in neurological diseases.
Featherstone Lab - Research at this neurogenetics laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago is focused on understanding how the brain forms functional connections and processes information.
Francesco Ventriglia - Working at the Institute of Cybernetics of CNR. Working on projects related to parallel computer simulation of neurotransmitter difusion and neural network.
Frank LaFerla - Researches the molecular biology of Alzheimer's disease and neurodegenerative disorders.
Fred Gage - The Gage lab works on adult neural stem cells.
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.
Gaute Einevoll - Research activity is in computational neuroscience, in particular various problems related to the function of nerve cells and networks of nerve cells.
Geoffrey Boynton - Researching the neural correlates of human visual perception using the relatively new technique for measuring brain responses in humans called functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Georg Schulze - Motivational psychology from an engineering perspective with biological contraints. Behavioral modeling. Resonance Raman spectroscopy of neurotransmitters. Artificial neural networks.
Giedrius Buracas - addresses the origins of the BOLD signal measured when applying fMRI. He is also interested in temporal codes.
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
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.
Heather Bradshaw - Research at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, is centered on the relationship of endogenous cannabinoids and uterine and vaginal neurophysiology.
Hilary Beggs - The Beggs lab works on signal transduction, cell morphology, and extracellular influences on circuit development in the retina.
Huda Zoghbi - The Zoghbi lab works on neural development and neurodegeneration.
Idan Segev - This lab at the Department of Neurobiology, Hebrew University, Israel is studying nerve cells and the specific networks they form.
Jürgen Schmidhuber - Has done important work on regularization of neural networks. Also addresses processing long short term memory and optimal learning.
Jack Gallant - The Gallant lab studies the neural basis of vision and visual perception, with particular emphasis on object vision, and visual selective attention.
Jeff Henderson - Researching the molecular mechanisms which regulate neuronal injury and survival following acute or chronic CNS insults.
Jennifer Raymond - The Raymond lab does research on the mechanisms of motor learning in a simple cerebellar task.
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.
Jianguo Gu - Studies on spinal cord sensory transmission using patch-clamp, immunocytochmistry and molecular biology approaches.
Jim Trimmer - Research laboratory studying molecular organization of neuronal signaling proteins.
John Taylor - Mathematical modelling in neurobiology, Neural computation and neural bases of behaviour, High energy physics and superstrings, quantum field theory and quantum gravity.
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.
Jonas Frisen - The Frisen Lab at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden is studying the development of the nervous system and the continued neurogenesis from neural stem cells in the adult.
Josh Tenenbaum - Studies how people use statistical methods when solving cognitive problems.
Juanita Anders - Research on low power laser irradiation, spinal cord injury research and diabetes. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics.
Julie Grezes - Dr. Grezes studies neural bases of social phenomena such as action perception, emotions, and theory of mind.
Jörg Conradt - Does robotics research at institute of neuroinformatics. He is interested in novel types of robots, pattern generation, control and navigation.
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.
Karl Deisseroth - Studies hippocampal neurogenesis.
Kaushik Ghose - Behavioural experiments on flying bats. Beam patterns. Neural models.
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.
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.
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.
Klaus Pawelzik - does theoretical neuroscience tightly bound to electrophysiological measurements.
Klaus-Armin Nave - Prof. Dr. Nave uses transgenic mouse and molecular/cellular techniques to study neural development and the neurodegenerative pathogenesis.
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.
Kristina M Visscher - Kristina provides her CV and publications and provides links to some spectacular demonstrations of different concepts in science with an emphasis on neuroscience.
Laurent Itti - Focus in visual neuroscience, approached using computational modeling, human psychophysics and functional neuroimaging. In particular, studies on visual attention in primates.
Lilian Yuan - Research at the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota is focused on understanding the dendritic mechanisms underlying synaptic and intrinsic plasticity, and how malfunction of these mechanisms contributes to human neurological diseases.
Lisa Topolnik - The Neural Imaging Lab uses cellular imaging techniques in combination with electrophysiology and genetic approaches to study local biochemical signalling at excitatory synapses of different type of central neurons.
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.
LONI: Laboratory of Neuro Imaging - This lab at UCLA does research into the relationship between brain structure and function using image data.
Luis R. Cruz Cruz - studies Alzheimers disease at the Center for Polymer Studies at Boston University
Luke Remage-Healey - At the Brain Research Institute at the University of California. List of publications.
Lydia Danglot - Researching the mechanisms of formation of neuronal synapses and vesicular trafficking. Also provides details of publications and courses taught.
Maneesh Sahani - Focuses on the statistical analysis of neural data and the design of experiments in neuroscience.
Mark Dubin - Applies virtual reality to neural rehabilitation.
Mark Laubach - The lab uses methods for large-scale neuronal ensemble recording to study neuronal processing in multiple parts of the nervous system simultaneously.
Mato, German - Researcher at Bariloche Nuclear Center. Includes activity on neural networks, neural modelling and related subjects. List of publications.
Matt Phillips - Postdoct in Dr. Michael E. Goldberg's Primate Electrophysiology lab in Columbia University. Research interests include neurobiology, psychophysics, visual search and saccadic eye movement.
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.
Matthew Larkum - My research interests focus on the roll of dendritic processing in networks of cortical neurons.
Maurizio Grimaldi - Information includes curriculum vitae, publications, research interest description, address, and links.
Michael Hausser - Works on how neuronal dendrites perform computations.
Michael Mauk - works on how timed information is encoded in the cerebellum.
Michael Nikoletseas - Scientist working on nonassosiative and associative learning phenomena.
Michale Fee - Understanding how the brain learns and generates complex sequential behaviors, with a focus on the songbird as a model system.
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.
Morgan Sheng - Studies synaptic structure, function, and plasticity.
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.
Nathan Intrator - Neural Computation, High Dimensional Statistics and Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Visual Cortex Plasticity, Time series prediction
Nordeen, Ernest J. - Hormonal regulation of neural plasticity and learning, with a focus on the songbird system.
Nordeen, Kathy W. - Studies neural plasticity, learning, memory, with a focus on vocal learning in songbirds.
Pam Reinagel - Pam Reinagel studies how patterns of activity in populations of visual neurons encode information about visual scenes, epsecially naturalistic ones.
Patrick Hoyer - Patrick Hoyer works on ICA (independent component analysis) and nonlinear variants thereof.
Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil - Addresses very basic questions on cellular and molecular mechanisms of proliferation and differentiation in the central nervous system.
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.
Paul Glimcher - The Glimcher lab studies the neural mechanisms underlying choice behavior using a combination of electrophysiological, behavioral, and neuroimaging techniques.
Paul Harrison - His group is studying gene expression in psychiatric disorders in the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry.
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 actions in the face of rewards and punishments, and the ways and goals of the process by which they come to form neural representations of the world. The models are informed and constrained by neurobiological, psychological and ethological data.
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.
Peter Lansbury - From the Center for Neurologic Diseases and Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Peter Latham - Computational neuroscience and neural coding.
Pouget, Alexandre - The Pouget lab works on the computational neuroscience of spatial representation, visual perception, and neural coding.
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.
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.
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.
Reza Shadmehr - The Shadmehr lab works on motor control and learning, robotics, brain imaging, and neurophysiology.
Richard Hahnloser - Richard Hahnloser is doing theory on recurrent systems and songbird physiology.
Richard Tsien - The Tsien lab does research on synaptic transmission, signal transduction, and pathophysiology of calcium channels.
Robert Fern - Research on ischemic injuries in the neonatal brain.
Rodney Douglas - Rodney Douglas addresses information processing in the neocortex. He is the head of the institute of neuroinformatics in Zurich.
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.
Ruedi Stoop - The Stoop group works on statistical neural networks, biological complexity, self-organized clustering and perception, and hearing biophysics.
Ruth Herbst - Research is focused on the molecular mechanisms that regulate the formation and maintenance of the neuromuscular synapse.
Sam Roweis - Machine Learning , Nonlinear Manifolds , Signal Processing , DNA Computing
Sami Ikonen - The role of the septohippocampal cholinergic system in cognitive functions - a doctoral thesis.
Sander Bohte - Neuroscientist in Amsterdam related to coding by action potentials as well as pattern recognition.
Shawn Mikula - does experiments and theories to study coincidence detection as well as connectivity. He uses simulation methods as well as fMRI.
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
Stephen Grossberg - Vision, audition, language, learning and memory, reward and motivation, cognition, development, sensory-motor control, mental disorders, applications.
Stephen Maren - Fear, conditioned learning behavior, and the neurophysiology of the amygdala. Research summaries, related links. Rat behavior animation.
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.
The Human Neurodiversity Laboratory - Outlines the research being undertaken at Dr. Mark Eckert's neuroimaging laboratory which is focused on understanding the neural basis for individual differences in cognition.
Theo Geisel - Nonlinear dynamics, chaotic systems, neural networks
Thomas J. Anastasio - Our goal is to gain deeper insight into multisensory integration and motor learning using computational neuroscience methodology.
Thorsten Naserke - Curriculum vitae, lists of skills, publications, participations at conferences and a description of research into the development of the midbrain and hindbrain.
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?
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.
Vialatte, Francois - PhD in cognitive neuroscience research. Includes publications.
Vibhanshu Abhishek - is interested in Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, (humanoid) Robotics, Psychology
Vito Di Maio - The projects carried out at the Institute of Cybernetics are mainly related to neurocomputation and visual perception of geometrical figures.
Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL - Provides information on the Centre, the research being undertaken, the investigators, news and events.
Werner Rathmayer - Overview of the research in our lab at the University of Constance, Germany, covering research in invertebrate neuroscience.
William H. Calvin - A theoretical neurophysiologist and author of The Cerebral Code, How the Brain Thinks.
Winfried Denk - Biomedical optics, two-photon microscopy, and imaging of neuronal activity.
Wiskott, Laurenz - Face recognition, Invariances in learning and vision.
Women in Neuroscience Biographies - Women who are contributing to our knowledge of neuroscience today including Ellen Kuwana, Frances Mary Ashcroft, Leslie P. Tolbert, Rae Nishi, Christine H. Block and Rosamund Langston.
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.
Yasir el Sherif - Information on ATP, melatonin, 8-OH-DPA, and magnetic fields in the nervous system.
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.

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