Publications

Below is a sample list of publications in which the Plexon Multichannel Acquisition Processor (MAP), Recorder, or MEA-Workstation was used to record from either primate, rat, mouse, other rodent, or cell culture/brain slice.

The papers are listed in alphabetical order by the last name of the first author and then on year of publication.

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Primate
Bichot N., Rossi A., and Desimone R. (2005) Parallel and serial neural mechanisms for visual search in macaque area V4. Science 308:529-34.
Churchland A., Huang X., and Lisberger S. (2006) Responses of neurons in the medial superior temporal visual area (MST) to apparent motion stimuli in macaque monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology Articles in Press 97:272-82.
Dragoi V. and Sur M. (2006) Image structure at the center of gaze during free viewing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18:737-48.
Fecteau J. and Munoz D. (2005) Correlates of capture of attention and inhibition of return across stages of visual processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 17:1714-27.
Freedman D., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., and Miller E. (2003) A comparison of primate prefrontal and inferior temporal cortices during visual categorization Journal of Neuroscience 23:5235-5246.
Freedman D., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., and Miller E. (2002) Visual categorization and the primate prefrontal cortex: neurophysiology and behavior. Journal of Neurophysiology 88:929-941.
Freedman D., Riesenhuber M., Poggio T., and Miller E. (2001) Categorical representation of visual stimuli in the primate prefrontal cortex. Science 291:312-6.
Fries P., Reynolds J., Rorie A., and Desimone R. (2001) Modulation of oscillatory neuronal synchronization by selective visual attention. Science 291:1560-3.
Gold J. (2004) Through the looking glass. Focus on “representation of an abstract perceptual decision in macaque superior colliculus.” Journal of Neurophysiology 91:1936-1937.
Gold J. (2003) Linking reward expectation to behavior in the basal ganglia. Trends in Neuroscience 26:12-14
Hampson R., Pons T., Stanford T., and Deadwyler S. (2004) Categorization in the monkey hippocampus: A possible mechanism for encoding information into memory. PNAS 101:3184-3189.
Hori E., Tabuchi E., Matsumura N., Tamura R., Eifuku S., Endo S., Nishijo H., and Ono T. (2003) Representation of place by monkey hippocampal neurons in real and virtual translocation. Hippocampus 13:190-6.
Horwitz G. and Albright T (2005) Paucity of chromatic linear motion detectors in macaque V1. Journal of Vision 5:525-533.
Horwitz G. Chichilnisky E., and Albright T. (2005) Blue-yellow signals are enhanced by spatiotemporal luminance contrast in macaque V1. Journal of Neurophysiology 93:2263-2278.
Hori E., Nishio Y, Kazui K., Umeno K., Tabuchi E., Sasaki K., Endo S., Ono T., and Nishijo H. (2005) Place-related neural responses in the monkey hippocampal formation in a virtual space. Hippocampus 15:991-996.
Jacobi P., DeSimone R., Ghosh I., Guo J., Leung S., and Pippin D. (2000) New syntheses of the C,D-ring pyrromethenones of phytochrome and phycocyanin. Journal of Organic Chemistry 65:8478-89.
Koch A., Sebening C., DeSimone R., Jahn L., Sack F., and Hagl S. (2005) Coronary fistula of right coronary artery to vena cava superior and ectasia of pulmonary artery. Zeitschrift für Kardiologie 94:813-6.
Krekelberg B., van Wezel R., and Albright T. (2006) Interactions between speed and contrast tuning in the middle temporal area: Implications for the neural code for speed. Journal of Neuroscience 26:8988-8998.
Krekelberg B., van Wezel R., and Albright T. (2006) Adaptation in macaque MT reduces perceived speed and improves speed discrimination. Journal of Neurophysiology 95:255-270.
Krekelberg B. and Albright T. (2005) Motion mechanisms in macaque MT. Journal of Neurophysiology 93:2908-2921.
Leopold D., Bondar I., and Giese A. (2006) Norm-based face encoding by single neurons in the monkey inferotemporal cortex. Nature 442:572-5.
Li W., Piëch V., and Gilbert C. (2006) Contour saliency in primary visual cortex. Neuron 50:951-962.
Li W., Piëch V., and Gilbert C. (2004) Perceptual learning and top-down influences in primary visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience 7:651-657.
Liu J. and Newsome W. (2005) Correlation between Speed Perception and Neural Activity in the Middle Temporal Visual Area. Journal of Neuroscience 25:711-722.
Miller L. (2004) Limb movement: getting a handle on grasp. Current Biology 14f:R714-5.
Miller E. (2000) The prefrontal cortex and cognitive control. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 1:59-65.
Munoz D. and Everling S. (2004) Look Away: The Anti-saccade task and the voluntary control of eye movement. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 5:218-228.
Nieder A. and Miller E. (2004) A parieto-frontal network for visual numerical information in the monkey. PNAS 101:7457-7462.
Nieder A. and Miller E. (2003) Coding of cognitive magnitude: Compressed scaling of numerical information in the primate prefrontal cortex. Neuron 37:149-157.
Nicolelis M. (2002) The amazing adventures of robotrat. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6:449-50.
Nicolelis M. and Ribeiro S. (2002) Multielectrode recordings: the next steps. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 12:602-6.
Nicolelis M. (2003) Brain-machine interfaces to restore motor function and probe neural circuits. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 4:417-422.
Nieder A. and Miller E. (2004) Analog numerical representations in rhesus monkeys: evidence for parallel processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 16:889-901.
Pare M. and Munoz D. (2001) Expression of a re-centering bias in saccade regulation by superior colliculus neurons. Experimental Brain Research 137:354-68.
Paton J., Belova M., Morrison S., and Salzman C. (2006) The primate amygdala represents the positive and negative value of visual stimuli during learning. Nature 439:865-70.
Pedersen S., Kristiansen E., Hansen B., Andersen R., and Zachariassen K. (2006) Cold hardiness in relation to trace metal stress in the freeze-avoiding beetle Tenebrio molitor. Journal of Insect Physiology 52:846-53.
Pohlmeyer E., Miller L., Mussa-Ivaldi F., Perreault E., and Solla S. (2003) Prediction of EMG from multiple electrode recordings in primary motor cortex. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE 3:2197-2200.
Reynolds J. and Chelazzi L. (2004) Attentional modulation of visual processing. Annual Review of Neuroscience 27:611-47.
Rizzuto D., Mamelak A., Sutherling W., Fineman I., and Andersen R. (2005) Spatial selectivity in human ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Nature Neuroscience 8:415-7.
Salzman C., Belova M., and Paton J. (2005) Beetles, boxes and brain cells: neural mechanisms underlying valuation and learning. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 15:721-9.
Sanchez J., Carmena J., Lebedev M., Nicolelis M., Harris J., and Principe J. (2004) Ascertaining the importance of neurons to develop better brain-machine interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 51:943-53.
Santucci D., Kralik J., Lebedev M., and Nicolelis M. (2005) Frontal and parietal cortical ensembles predict single-trial muscle activity during reaching movements in primates. European Journal of Neuroscience 22:1529-40.
Sharma J., Dragoi V., Tenenbaum J., Miller E., and Sur M. (2003) V1 neurons signal acquisition of an internal representation of stimulus location. Science 300:1758-63.
Sugrue L., Corrado G., and Newsome W. (2004) Matching behavior and the representation of value in the parietal cortex. Science 304:1782-7.
Sundberg K., Fallah M., and Reynolds J. (2005) A motion-dependent distortion of retinotopy in area V4. Neuron 49:447-457.
Suzuki W. and Brown E. (2005) Behavioral and neurophysiological analyses of dynamic learning processes. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews 4:67-95.
Sylvestre P., Choi J., and Cullen K. (2003) Discharge dynamics of oculomotor neural integrator neurons during conjugate and disjunctive saccades and fixation. Journal of Nueirphysiology 90:739-54.
Sylvestre P., Roy J., and Cullen K. (2001) Do extraocular motoneurons encode head velocity during head -restrained versus head-unrestrained saccadic and smooth pursuit movements? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 942:497-500.
Thiele A., Dobkins K., and Albright T. (2001) Neural correlates of chromatic motion perception. Neuron 32:351-8.
Torres E. and Andersen R. (2006) Space-time separation during obstacle-avoidance learning in monkeys. Journal of Neurophysiology 96: 2613-2632.
Wallis J., Anderson K., and Miller E. (2001) Single neurons in prefrontal cortex encode abstract rules. Nature 411:953-956.
Werkema E., Messines E., Perrin L., Maron L., Eisenstein O., and Andersen R. (2005) Hydrogen for fluorine exchange in CH4-xFx by monomeric [1,2,4-(Me3C)3C5H2]2CeH: experimental and computational studies. Journal of the American Chemical Society 127:7781-95.
Wiest M. and Nicolelis M. (2003) Behavioral detection of tactile stimuli during 7-12 Hz cortical oscillations in awake rats. Nature Neuroscience 6:913-4.
Wirth S., Yanike M., Frank L., Smith A., Brown E., and Suzuki W. (2003) Single neurons in the monkey hippocampus and learning of new associations. Science 300:1578-81.
Womelsdorf T., Fries P., Mitra P., and Desimone R. (2006) Gamma-band synchronization in visual cortex predicts speed of change detection. Nature 439:733-6.
Zeitler M., Fries P., and Gielen S. (2006) Assessing neuronal coherence with single-unit, multi-unit, and local field potentials. Neural Computation 18:2256-2281.
Zink W., Noll J., Rauch H., Bauer H., Desimone R., Martin E., and Bottiger B. (2004) Continuous assessment of right ventricular ejection fraction: new pulmonary artery catheter versus transoesophageal echocardiography. Anaesthesia 59:1126-32.
Rat
Chang C., Liang K., and Yen C. (2005) Inhibitory avoidance learning altered ensemble activity of amygdaloid neurons in rats. European Journal of Neuroscience 21:210-218.
Cohen D. and Nicolelis M. (2004) Reduction of single-neuron firing uncertainty by cortical ensembles during motor skill learning. Journal of Neuroscience 24:3574-3582.
Dzirasa K., Ribeiro S., Costa R., Santos L., Lin S., Grosmark A., Sotnikova T., Gainetdinov R., Caron M., and Nicolelis M. (2006) Dopaminergic control of sleep–wake states. Journal of Neuroscience 26:10577-10589.
Fanselow E., Sameshima K., Baccala L., and Nicolelis M. (2001) Thalamic bursting in rats during different awake behavioral states. PNAS 98:15330-15335.
Gervasoni D., Lin S., Ribeiro S., Soares E., Pantoja J., and Nicolelis M. (2004) Global forebrain dynamics predict rat behavioral states and their transitions. Journal of Neuroscience 24:11137-11147.
Ghazanfar A. , Krupa D., and Nicolelis M. (2001) Role of cortical feedback in the receptive field structure and nonlinear response properties of somatosensory thalamic neurons. Experimental Brain Research 141:88-100.
Ghazanfar A., Stambaugh C., and Nicolelis M. (2000) Encoding of tactile stimulus location by somatosensory thalamocortical ensembles. Journal of Neuroscience 20:3761-3775.
Gutierrez R., Carmena J.,Nicolelis M., and Simon S. (2006) Orbitofrontal ensemble activity monitors licking and distinguishes among natural rewards. Journal of Neurophysiology 95:119-133.
Katz D., Simon S., and Nicolelis M. (2002) Taste-specific neuronal ensembles in the gustatory cortex of awake rats. Journal of Neuroscience 22:1850-1857.
Katz D., Simon S., and Nicolelis M. (2001) Dynamic and multimodal responses of gustatory cortical neurons in awake rats. Journal of Neuroscience 21:4478-4489.
Kralik J., Dimitrov D., Krupa D., Katz D., Cohen D., and Nicolelis M. (2001) Techniques for long-term multisite neuronal ensemble recordings in behaving animals. Methods 25:121-150.
Kuo C. and Yen C. (2005) Comparison of anterior cingulate and primary somatosensory neuronal responses to noxious laser-heat stimuli in conscious, behaving rats. Journal of Neurophysiology 94:1825-1836.
Ribeiro S., Gervasoni D., Soares E., Zhou Y., Lin S., Pantoja J., Lavine M., Nicolelis M. (2004) Long-lasting novelty-induced neuronal reverberation during slow-wave sleep in multiple forebrain areas. PLoS Biology 2:0126-0137.
Shuler M., Krupa D., and Nicolelis M. (2001) Bilateral integration of whisker information in the primary somatosensory cortex of rats. Journal of Neuroscience 21:5251-5261.
Stapleton J., Lavine M., Wolpert R., Nicolelis M., and Simon S. (2006) Rapid taste responses in the gustatory cortex during licking. Journal of Neuroscience 26:4126-4138.
Tsai M., Kuob C., Sunc W., Yen C. (2004) Differential morphine effects on short- and long-latency laser-evoked cortical responses in the rat. Pain 110:665-674.
Yen C. and Shaw F. (2003) Reticular thalamic responses to nociceptive inputs in anesthetized rats. Brain Research 968:179-191.
Mouse
Costa R., Cohen D., and Nicolelis M. (2004) Differential corticostriatal plasticity during fast and slow motor skill learning in mice. Current Biology 14:1124-1134.
Dzirasa K., Ribeiro S., Costa R., Santos L., Lin S., Grosmark A., Sotnikova T., Gainetdinov R., Caron M., and Nicolelis M. (2006) Dopaminergic control of sleep–wake states. Journal of Neuroscience 26:10577-10589.
Lin L., Chenb G., Xie K., Zaia K., Zhang S., Tsien J. (2006) Large-scale neural ensemble recording in the brains of freely behaving mice. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. In Press
Lin L., Remus Osan R., and Tsien J. (2006) Organizing principles of real-time memory encoding: neural clique assemblies and universal neural codes. Trends in Neuroscience 29:48-57.
Lin L., Osan R., Shoham S., Jin W., Zuo W., and Tsien J. (2005) Identification of network-level coding units for real-time representation of episodic experiences in the hippocampus. PNAS 102:6125-6130.
Cell Culture
Chang J., Brewer G., and Wheeler B. (2006) Neuronal network structuring induces greater neuronal activity through enhanced astroglial development. Journal of Neural Engineering 3:217-226.
Gopal K. and Gross G. (2004) Unique responses of auditory cortex networks in vitro to low concentrations of quinine. Hearing Research 192:10-22.
Gramowski A., Jugelt K., Stuwe S., Schulze R., McGregor G., Wartenberg-Demand A., Loock J., Schroder O., and Weiss D. (2006) Functional screening of traditional antidepressants with primary cortical neuronal networks grown on multielectrode neurochips. European Journal of Neuroscience 24:455-465.
Gramowski A., Jugelt K., Weiss D., Gross G. (2004) Substance Identification by quantitative characterization of oscillatory activity in murine spinal cord networks on microelectrode arrays. European Journal of Neuroscience19:2815-2825.
O’Shaughnessy T., Zim B., Ma W., Shaffer K., Stenger D., Zamanic K., Gross G., Pancrazioa J. (2003) Acute neuropharmacologic action of chloroquine on cortical neurons in vitro. Brain Research 959:280-286.
Pancrazio J., Gray S., Shubin Y., Kulagina N., Cuttino D., Shaffer K., Eisemann K., Curran A., Zim B., Gross G., O’Shaughnessy T. (2003) A portable microelectrode array recording system incorporating cultured neuronal networks for neurotoxin detection. Biosensors and Bioelectronics 18:1339-1347.
Sokal D., Mason R., Parker T. (2000) Multi-neuronal recordings reveal a differential effect of thapsigargin on bicuculline- or gabazine-induced epileptiform excitability in rat hippocampal neuronal networks. Neuropharmacology 39:2408-2417.
Xia Y., and Gross G. (2003) Histiotypic electrophysiological responses of cultured neuronal networks to ethanol. Alcohol 30:167-174.
Xia Y., Gopal K., and Gross G. (2003) Differential acute effects of fluoxetine on frontal and auditory cortex networks in vitro. Brain Research 973:151-160.
Other
Bereshpolova Y., Stoelzel C., Gusev A., Bezdudnaya T., and Swadlow H. (2006) The impact of a corticotectal impulse on the awake superior colliculus. Journal of Neuroscience 26:2250-2259.
Bezdudnaya T., Cano M., Bereshpolova Yulia , Stoelzel C., Alonso J., and Swadlow H. (2006) Thalamic burst mode and inattention in the awake LGNd. Neuron 49:421-432.
Swadlow H., Gusev A., and Bezdudnaya T. (2002) Activation of a cortical column by a thalamocortical impulse. Journal of Neuroscience 22:7766-7773.
U-Probe
Devor A., Tian P., Nishimura N., Teng I., Hillman E., Narayanan S., Ulbert I., Boas D., Kleinfeld D., and Dale A. (2007) Suppressed neuronal activity and concurrent arteriolar vasoconstriction may explain negative bold oxygenation level-dependent signal. J. Neuroscience 27:4452-4459.
Devor A., Dunn A., Andermann M., Ulbert I., Boas D., and Dale A. (2003) Coupling of total hemoglobin concentration, oxygenation, and neural activity in rat somatosensory cortex. Neuron 39: 353-359.
Devor A., Ulbert I., Dunn A, Narayanan S, Jones S., Andermann M., Boas D., and Dale A. (2005) Coupling of the cortical hemodynamic response to cortical and thalamic neuronal activity. PNAS 102: 3822-3827.
Einevoll G., Pettersen K., Devor A., Ulbert I., Halgren E., and Dale A. (2007) Laminar population analysis: estimating firing rates and evoked synaptic activity from multielectrode recordings in rat barrel cortex. J. Neurophysiology 97:2174-2190.
Hackett T., De La Mothe L., Ulbert I., Karmos G., Smiley J., and Schroeder C. (2007) Multisensory convergence in auditory cortex, II. Thalamocorical connections of the caudal superior temporal plane. J. Comparative Neurology 502:924-952.
Lakatos, P., Karmos, G., Mehta, A.D., Ulbert, I., and Schroeder, C.E. (2008) Entrainment of neuronal oscillations as a mechanism of attentional selection. Science 320: 110-113.
Lakatos P., Chen C., O’Connell M., Mills A., and Schroeder C. (2007) Neuronal oscillations and multisensory interation in primary auditory cortex. Neuron 53:279-292.
Lakatos P., Shah A., Knuth K., Ulbert I., Karmos G., and Schroeder C. (2005) An oscillatory hierarchy controlling neuronal excitability and stimulus processing in the auditory cortex. J. Neurophysiology 94:1904-1911.
Pettersen K., Devor A., Ulbert I., Dale A., and Einevoll G. (2006) Current-source density estimation based on inversion of electrostatic forward solution: Effects of finite extent of neuronal activity and conductivity discontinuities. J. Neuroscience Methods 154:116-133.
Shah A., Bressler S., Knuth K., Ding M., Mehta A., Ulbert I., and Schroeder C. (2004) Neural dynamics and the fundamental mechanisms of event-related brain potentials. Cerebral Cortex 14:476-483.
Smiley J., Hackett T., Ulbert I., Karmos G., Lakatos P., Javitt J., and Schroeder C. (2007) Multisensory convergence in auditory cortex, I. Cortical connections of the caudal superior temporal plane in macaque monkeys. J. Comparative Neurology 502:894-923.
Ulbert I., Magloczky Z., Eross L., Czirjak S., Vajda J., Bognar L., Toth S., Szabo Z., Halasz P., Fabo D., Halgren E., Freund T., and Karmos G. (2004) In vivo laminar electrophysiology co-registered with histology in the hippocampus of patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Experimental Neurology 187: 310-318.