-----Original Message----- From: NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series Announcements [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Wang, Gladys (NIH/NINDS) Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 12:51 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: NIH Neuroscience Seminar Series: September 13, 2004 - May 23, 200 5 You are invited to attend the next NIH Neuroscience Series lecture on January 24, 2005 at noon in the Lipsett Amphitheater of the NIH Clinical Center, 10 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD. MATTEO CARANDINI, PH.D., Scientist, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute will present his seminar on "Unsuspected Roles of Firing Threshold in Visual Cortex." Dr. Carandini's main interest is the early visual system and how it does what it does. In particular, his work focuses on the lateral geniculate neurons (LGN) and the primary visual cortex (V1). These are the two brain structures that connect the eyes to the portion of cerebral cortex that deals with vision. He explores how LGN and V1 are wired up and seeks simple mathematical expressions to describe their output. His work combines both intracellular and extracellular recording, in addition to computational modeling, aiming towards a complete and quantitative description of exactly how the cerebral cortex achieves it signaling properties. Selected Publications: M Carandini (2004) Amplification of trial-to-trial response variability by neurons in visual cortex PLoS Biology, 2(9): e264. N Priebe, F Mechler, M Carandini, D Ferster (2004) The contribution of the firing threshold to the dichotomy between V1 simple and complex cells Nature Neuroscience, 7:1113-1122. M Carandini, F Sengpiel (2004) Contrast invariance of functional maps in cat primary visual cortex J of Vision, 4: 130-143. M Carandini, DJ Heeger, W Senn, (2002) A synaptic explanation of suppression in visual cortex. J Neurosci, 22:10053-10065. V Bonin, V Mante, M Carandini (2004 ) "Nonlinear processing in LGN neurons In Advances" in Neural Information Processing Systems 16 (Thrun S, Saul L, Schölkopf B, eds). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. M Carandini (2004) "Receptive fields and suppressive fields in the early visual system" in The Cognitive Neurosciences, 3rd Edition (MS Gazzaniga, ed). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Educational Objective of this seminar series to identify recent and ongoing advances in basic and clinical neuroscience research. Target Audience: Neurologists, neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, basic and clinical researchers and health care providers. Reasonable Accommodations: If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact Peggy Rollins at 301-435-2232 during business hours at least 5 business days prior to the event. Accreditation: The National Institutes of Health/Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (NIH/FAES) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The NIH/FAES designates this educational activity for a maximum of 25 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity. For more information see our website - http://neuroseries.info.nih.gov To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send an email message to [log in to unmask] with Unsubscribe Neuroseries-L" (no quotes) in the body of the message.