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  • Mon 18th July 2016

    Kristina Nielsen on How the Brain Turns Pixels into Objects

    Full article link. Interviewed by Catherine Gara Kristina Nielsen is an assistant professor of neuroscience with the Zanvyl Krieger/Mind Brain Institute. She studies how nerve cells are organized in the brain’s visual areas to enable object recognition. How did you get into science?NIELSEN: I come from a scientific family. My dad and uncle are physicists, and one of my grandfathers was an engineer. At university in Germany, where I grew up, I started studying physics because I liked it ...

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  • Fri 1st July 2016

    Publications - July 2016

    Publications from Primary Faculty Members - July 2016 Na Y, Park S, Lee C, Kim DK, Park JM, Sockanathan S, Huganir RL, Worley PF. Real-Time Imaging Reveals Properties of Glutamate-Induced Arc/Arg 3.1 Translation in Neuronal Dendrites. Neuron. 2016 Jul 5. pii: S0896-6273(16)30294-X. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.06.017. [Epub ahead of print] Wagatsuma N, von der Heydt R, Niebur E. Spike Synchrony Generated by Modulatory Common Input through NMDA-type Synapses. J Neurophysiol. 2016 J...

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