 Stephen Grossberg - http://cns-web.bu.edu/Profiles/Grossberg.html Vision, audition, language, learning and memory, reward and motivation, cognition, development, sensory-motor control, mental disorders, applications. |
 Luis R. Cruz Cruz - http://polymer.bu.edu/cruz/ studies Alzheimers disease at the Center for Polymer Studies at Boston University |
 Paul Harrison - http://www.psychiatry.ox.ac.uk/mng/ His group is studying gene expression in psychiatric disorders in the University of Oxford Department of Psychiatry. |
 David Tolhurst - http://www.pdn.cam.ac.uk/staff/tolhurst/ My research interests are in the area of the neurophysiology and psychophysics of vision. |
 Simon Laughlin - http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/laugh.htm Simon Laughlin addresses optimal coding, the cost of action potentials and more generally relates the properties of nervous systems to ethological optimisation and constraints |
 Eduardo Candelario-Jalil - http://www.freewebs.com/candelariojalil/ The lab is using neurochemical approaches to study phenomena such as brain injury and regeneration. |
 Josh Tenenbaum - http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html Studies how people use statistical methods when solving cognitive problems. |
 Ed Adelson - http://web.mit.edu/persci/people/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. |
 Richard Hahnloser - http://hebb.mit.edu/people/rh/ Richard Hahnloser is doing theory on recurrent systems and songbird physiology. |
 Michale Fee - http://web.mit.edu/feelab/ Understanding how the brain learns and generates complex sequential behaviors, with a focus on the songbird as a model system. |
 Morgan Sheng - http://web.mit.edu/picower/faculty/sheng.html Studies synaptic structure, function, and plasticity. |
 Matt Wilson - http://mit.edu/org/w/wilsonlab/ 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. |
 Yasir el Sherif - http://www.angelfire.com/yt/yas709neuroscience/ Information on ATP, melatonin, 8-OH-DPA, and magnetic fields in the nervous system. |
 Jerzy Achimowicz - http://www.angelfire.com/wa3/jachimow/ 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. |
 Hans van Hateren - http://hlab.phys.rug.nl/ 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. |
 Zhongmin Lu - http://www.bio.miami.edu/zlu/index.html Laboratory (P.I. - Dr. John Lu) that focuses on mechanisms of hearing in fish, including directional and ultrasonic hearing, and neurotoxin effects on hearing. |
 Elie Bienenstock - http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/elie/page.html Elie Bienenstock is interested in temporal coding by individual action potentials. |
 David Mumford - http://www.dam.brown.edu/people/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. |
 Michael Nikoletseas - http://www.greekads.com/nikoletseas/ Scientist working on nonassosiative and associative learning phenomena. |
 Mark Dubin - http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/index.html Applies virtual reality to neural rehabilitation. |
 Randall O'Reilly - http://psych.colorado.edu/~oreilly/ 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. |
 Sam Roweis - http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~roweis/ Machine Learning , Nonlinear Manifolds , Signal Processing , DNA Computing |
 William H. Calvin - http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvin/ A theoretical neurophysiologist and author of The Cerebral Code, How the Brain Thinks. |
 Robert Fern - http://faculty.washington.edu/bobfern/index.html Research on ischemic injuries in the neonatal brain. |
 Winfried Denk - http://www.mpg.de/cgi-bin/mpg.de/person.cgi?nav=kontakt&inst=medizinische_forschung&persId=166764&lang=en Biomedical optics, two-photon microscopy, and imaging of neuronal activity. |
 Ruedi Stoop - http://stoop.net/group The Stoop group works on statistical neural networks, biological complexity, self-organized clustering and perception, and hearing biophysics. |
 Christopher Walsh - http://www.bidmc.harvard.edu/neurology/walshlab/ Researching the development and function of the cerebral cortex and the genes involved in this process. From the Harvard Institutes of Medicine. |
 Peter Lansbury - http://lansbury.bwh.harvard.edu From the Center for Neurologic Diseases and Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. |
 Nordeen, Ernest J. - http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/ernie/ernie.html Hormonal regulation of neural plasticity and learning, with a focus on the songbird system. |
 Nordeen, Kathy W. - http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/knordeen/knordeen.html Studies neural plasticity, learning, memory, with a focus on vocal learning in songbirds. |
 Pouget, Alexandre - http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/alex/ The Pouget lab works on the computational neuroscience of spatial representation, visual perception, and neural coding. |
 Jack Gallant - http://neuroscience.berkeley.edu/users/users_profile.php?rid=12 The Gallant lab studies the neural basis of vision and visual perception, with particular emphasis on object vision, and visual selective attention. |
 Yang Dan - http://mcb.berkeley.edu/faculty/NEU/dany.html 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. |
 Jennifer Raymond - http://www.stanford.edu/group/raymondlab/ The Raymond lab does research on the mechanisms of motor learning in a simple cerebellar task. |
 Richard Tsien - http://www.stanford.edu/group/Tsienlab/ The Tsien lab does research on synaptic transmission, signal transduction, and pathophysiology of calcium channels. |
 Karl Deisseroth - http://www.stanford.edu/~deissero/ Studies hippocampal neurogenesis. |
 Georg Schulze - http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/schulze/Georg_SchulzeHP.htm Motivational psychology from an engineering perspective with biological contraints. Behavioral modeling. Resonance Raman spectroscopy of neurotransmitters. Artificial neural networks. |
 Vialatte, Francois - http://fbv.site.voila.fr/ PhD in cognitive neuroscience research. Includes publications. |
 Klaus-Armin Nave - http://www.nave.de/ Prof. Dr. Nave uses transgenic mouse and molecular/cellular techniques to study neural development and the neurodegenerative pathogenesis. |
 Frank LaFerla - http://neurobiology.bio.uci.edu/faculty/laferla/laferla.htm Researches the molecular biology of neurodegenerative disorders. |
 Sander Bohte - http://www.cwi.nl/~sbohte/ Neuroscientist in Amsterdam related to coding by action potentials as well as pattern recognition. |
 Nachum Dafny / Alan Swann - http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/dafny The Dafny/Swann lab works on the neuronal mechanisms and pathways involved with drug addiction, with a focus on rodent models. |
 Michael Mauk - http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/homepage/mmauk/ works on how timed information is encoded in the cerebellum. |
 Laurent Itti - http://ilab.usc.edu/ Focus in visual neuroscience, approached using computational modeling, human psychophysics and functional neuroimaging. In particular, studies on visual attention in primates. |
 Gary Holt - http://lnc.usc.edu/~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. |
 Marc Breedlove, Cynthia Jordan - http://www.msu.edu/~breedsm 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 |
 Cynthia L. Jordan - http://www.msu.edu/~breedsm/cj.htm The Jordan lab works on cellular and molecular mechanims underlying steroid-regulated behaviors. |
 Eero Simoncelli - http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~eero/ 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. |
 Paul Glimcher - http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~glimcher/ The Glimcher lab studies the neural mechanisms underlying choice behavior using a combination of electrophysiological, behavioral, and neuroimaging techniques. |
 Loesch, Dr Andrzej - http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucgaanl/ 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. |
 Peter Latham - http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~pel/ Computational neuroscience and neural coding. |
 Quentin Huys - http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~qhuys/ 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. |
 Peter Dayan - http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~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. |
 John Taylor - http://www.mth.kcl.ac.uk/~jgtaylor/index.htm Mathematical modelling in neurobiology, Neural computation and neural bases of behaviour, High energy physics and superstrings, quantum field theory and quantum gravity. |
 Maneesh Sahani - http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/~maneesh/ Focuses on the statistical analysis of neural data and the design of experiments in neuroscience. |
 Michael Hausser - http://www.ucl.ac.uk/wibr/3/research/neuro/mh/mh.htm Works on how neuronal dendrites perform computations. |
 Sue Becker - http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Psychology/sb.html 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. |
 Mikko Juusola - http://www.shef.ac.uk/bms/research/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. |
 Roland Baddeley - http://psychology.psy.bris.ac.uk/people/rolandbaddeley.htm 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. |
 Tony Zador - http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/zador.html 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? |
 Dmitri Chklovskii - http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/chklovskii.html Interested in developmental pattern generation or ways of describing coupled networks of genes and neurons. |
 Karel Svoboda - http://www.cshl.org/public/SCIENCE/svoboda3.html 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. |
 Francesco Ventriglia - http://biocib.cib.na.cnr.it/Ventriglia/ventriglia.html Working at the Institute of Cybernetics of CNR. Working on projects related to parallel computer simulation of neurotransmitter difusion and neural network. |
 Veeramani Maharhajan - http://biocib.cib.na.cnr.it/Maharhajan/maha.html 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. |
 Vito Di Maio - http://biocib.cib.na.cnr.it/DiMaio/dimaio.html The projects carried out at the Institute of Cybernetics are mainly related to neurocomputation and visual perception of geometrical figures. |
 Theo Geisel - http://www.chaos.gwdg.de/theo/ Nonlinear dynamics, chaotic systems, neural networks |
 Dale Purves - http://www.purveslab.net the Purves laboratory is studying visual perception and its neurobiological underpinnings. Shows a lot of interactive demos of psychophysical effects and optical illusions. |
 Maurizio Grimaldi - http://www.mauriziogrimaldi.net/ Information includes curriculum vitae, publications, research interest description, address, and links. |
 David Fitzpatrick - http://www.fitzpatricklab.net 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. |
 Reza Shadmehr - http://www.bme.jhu.edu/~reza/ The Shadmehr lab works on motor control and learning, robotics, brain imaging, and neurophysiology. |
 Jianguo Gu - http://plaza.ufl.edu/jggjgg/ Studies on spinal cord sensory transmission using patch-clamp, immunocytochmistry and molecular biology approaches. |
 Cynthia F. Moss - http://www.bsos.umd.edu/psyc/batlab/ Advancing our understanding of how sensory information is processed, organized, and integrated with motor programs, with a focus on bat auditory processing. |
 Huda Zoghbi - http://www.bcm.edu/db/db_fac-zoghbi.html The Zoghbi lab works on neural development and neurodegeneration. |
 Kaushik Ghose - http://www.wam.umd.edu/~kghose/research.html Behavioural experiments on flying bats. Beam patterns. Neural models. |
 Stephen Maren - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~maren/marenlab.html Fear, conditioned learning behavior, and the neurophysiology of the amygdala. Research summaries, related links. Rat behavior animation. |
 Pam Reinagel - http://www.biology.ucsd.edu/labs/reinagel/ Pam Reinagel studies how patterns of activity in populations of visual neurons encode information about visual scenes, epsecially naturalistic ones. |
 Fred Gage - http://www-biology.ucsd.edu/faculty/gage.html The Gage lab works on adult neural stem cells. |
 Vibhanshu Abhishek - http://www.geocities.com/vibhanshu/ is interested in Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, (humanoid) Robotics, Psychology |
 Keith Sillar - http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~xscr/ 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. |
 Donald Sakaguchi - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~zoogen/saklab.html Researches development and plasticity in vertebrate visual systems |
 Thomas J. Anastasio - http://csn.beckman.uiuc.edu Our goal is to gain deeper insight into multisensory integration and motor learning using computational neuroscience methodology. |
 Dwight Bergles - http://www.bergleslab.com/ The Laboratory at Johns Hopkins studies synaptic physiology, with an emphasis on glutamate transporters and glial involvement in neuronal signaling. |
 Jeff Henderson - http://www.phm.utoronto.ca/~jeffh/henderson.htm Researching the molecular mechanisms which regulate neuronal injury and survival following acute or chronic CNS insults. |
 Björn Brembs - http://brembs.net/ 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. |
 Mark Laubach - http://spikelab.jbpierce.org/ The lab uses methods for large-scale neuronal ensemble recording to study neuronal processing in multiple parts of the nervous system simultaneously. |
 Klaus Obermayer - http://ni.cs.tu-berlin.de/ 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 - http://www-neuro.physik.uni-bremen.de/~pawelzik/ does theoretical neuroscience tightly bound to electrophysiological measurements. |
 Claudia Schmauss - http://www.schmauss-lab.com/ The Laboratory at Columbia University performs neurobiology research on dopamine receptors. |
 Andreas Herz - http://www.cns-berlin.org/People/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 |
 Ad Aertsen - http://www.brainworks.uni-freiburg.de/ This lab studies theoretical neuroscience, spiking neural networks, temporal processing and dynamic coding. |
 Werner Rathmayer - http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Bio/research/Arbeitsgruppen/Rathmayer/Homepage/index_eng.htm Overview of the research in our lab at the University of Constance, Germany, covering research in invertebrate neuroscience. |
 Peter König - http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~peterk/ 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. |
 Sami Ikonen - http://www.uku.fi/neuro/54the.htm The role of the septohippocampal cholinergic system in cognitive functions - a doctoral thesis. |
 Nathan Intrator - http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~nin/ Neural Computation, High Dimensional Statistics and Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision, Visual Cortex Plasticity, Time series prediction |
 Jörg Conradt - http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~conradt/ Does robotics research at institute of neuroinformatics. He is interested in novel types of robots, pattern generation, control and navigation. |
 Rodney Douglas - http://www.ini.unizh.ch/~rjd/ Rodney Douglas addresses information processing in the neocortex. He is the head of the institute of neuroinformatics in Zurich. |
 David Tam - http://www.david.tam.name A physiologist studying computational and experimental neuroscience problems. |
 Patrick Hoyer - http://www.cis.hut.fi/~phoyer/ Patrick Hoyer works on ICA (independent component analysis) and nonlinear variants thereof. |
 Jürgen Schmidhuber - http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/ Has done important work on regularization of neural networks. Also addresses processing long short term memory and optimal learning. |
 Aapo Hyvarinen - http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/ahyvarin/ 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. |
 Dario Floreano - http://lis.epfl.ch/member.php?SCIPER=111729 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). |
 Matthew Larkum - http://www.physio.unibe.ch/~larkum/ My research interests focus on the roll of dendritic processing in networks of cortical neurons. |
 Gutnick-Fleidervish Laboratory - http://www.agri.huji.ac.il/~mgutnick 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 |
 John W. Moore - http://www.umass.edu/neuro/faculty/files/moore.html 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. |
 Patrizia Casaccia-Bonnefil - http://www2.umdnj.edu/cblabweb/ Addresses very basic questions on cellular and molecular mechanisms of proliferation and differentiation in the central nervous system. |
 Giedrius Buracas - http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~giedrius/ addresses the origins of the BOLD signal measured when applying fMRI. He is also interested in temporal codes. |
 Jim Trimmer - http://www.sunysb.edu/biochem/BIOCHEM/facultypages/trimmer/index.html Research laboratory studying molecular organization of neuronal signaling proteins. |
 Elba Serrano - http://biology-web.nmsu.edu/serrano/neurolab/neurolab.html Focuses on the development of the nervous system, with an emphasis on the sensory systems responsible for hearing and balance. |
 Julie Grezes - http://www.juliegrezes.com Dr. Grezes studies neural bases of social phenomena such as action perception, emotions, and theory of mind. |
 Paul De Koninck - http://www.greenspine.ca The lab investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms used by neurons to decode synaptic and electrical activities that propagate through neural circuits. |
 Ed Boyden - http://edboyden.org Analysis and engineering of neural circuit function. |
 Hilary Beggs - http://www.ucsf.edu/beggs/ The Beggs lab works on signal transduction, cell morphology, and extracellular influences on circuit development in the retina. |
 Wiskott, Laurenz - http://itb.biologie.hu-berlin.de/~wiskott/homepage.html Face recognition, Invariances in learning and vision. |
 Dittmar, Michael - http://www-nw.uni-regensburg.de/~.dim14809.anaest.klinik.uni-regensburg.de/ Research on stroke, anesthesiology, and out-of-hospital emergency medicine. |
 Rajesh Rao - http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~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. |
 Ruth Herbst - http://www.univie.ac.at/brainresearch/herbst The laboratory of Dr. Ruth Herbst focuses on the formation of the neuromuscular synapse. Specific topics and research areas are described. |
 Shawn Mikula - http://brainmeta.com/index.php?q=mikula does experiments and theories to study coincidence detection as well as connectivity. He uses simulation methods as well as fMRI. |
 Ken Miller - http://phy.ucsf.edu/~ken/ 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. |
 Konrad Körding - http://www.kording.eu 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. |