Structure of Neural Codes

What is the language of neurons? Understanding how neurons encode information is central to understanding the computational processes and representational structures in the visual system. Using single electrode recording and multielectrode microarray (Utah Bionic array) recording technologies, we are studying how neurons encode information as an individual and as an ensemble. In collaboration with Robert Kass and Antony Brockwell in statistics, we are exploring data-mining and statistical analysis techniques to explore the information encoded in neurons and seek ways to decode these information.

• Project 1: Multielectrode array recording
  • Project Leader: Matthew Smith.... .. . . ... ..
  
  
• Project 2: Decoding visual signals using Volterra Kernels in a particle-filtering framework
  • Project Leader: Ryan Kelly
  
  
• Project 3: Mutual information of neuronal ensembles in scale-space
  • Project Leader: Xiaogang Yan
  
  

Earlier projects:
• Project 1: Recovering Volterra kernels of V1 neurons in awake monkeys
  • Project Leader: Richard Romero
  
  
• Project 2: Decoding visual signals using signals with Hidden Markov model estimation of instantaneous firing rate
  • Project Leader: Richard Romero