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Awardee

Mark Schnitzer, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

Affiliations
  • Professor, Department of Biology and Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
  • Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Publications

An approximate line attractor in the hypothalamus encodes an aggressive state

Cell, January 5, 2023

A Nair, T Karigo, B Yang, Surya Ganguli, Mark Schnitzer, Scott Linderman, et al.

Dual-polarity voltage imaging of the concurrent dynamics of multiple neuron types

Science, November 4, 2022

M Kannan, G Vasan, S Haziza, C Huang, R Chrapkiewicz, J Luo, et al.

Noise correlations in neural ensemble activity limit the accuracy of hippocampal spatial representations

Nat Commun, July 25, 2022

O Hazon, VH Minces, DP Tomàs, Surya Ganguli, Mark Schnitzer, and PE Jercog

Emergent reliability in sensory cortical coding and inter-area communication

Nature, May 19, 2022

S Ebrahimi, J Lecoq, O Rumyantsev, T Tasci, Y Zhang, C Irimia, et al.

Projects

black and white brain scan

How does the brain predict the future? Large-scale neural calcium imaging, two-photon optogenetic and deep neural network studies of future prediction across 11 neocortical areas in behaving mice

Funded Work

Events

Mathematics & Physical Sciences

Fundamental Bounds on the Fidelity of Sensory Cortical Coding

Lecture

September 23, 2020

5–6:15 p.m. ET

Speaker

Mark Schnitzer

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