Research Interests

Bioinformatics (with Mariano Sigman)

Computational Linguistics

Consciousness and Free Will

Evolution

Learning

· Neuronal priming in the olfactory system: Taking advantage of environmental constancy to bias olfactory detection

· WLC & Self-organization (in collaboration with Valentin Zhigulin)

Neural Coding

· Winnerless competition and dynamic attractors (in collaboration with Valentin Zhigulin)

· Olfaction

· Cost-based spike metrics (with Jonathan Victor)

· The role of temporal coding

· The role of synchronization in the read-out of neural assemblies (with Kate MacLeod and Gilles Laurent)

· The source of variability in neuronal responses (with Mike Wehr)

Pattern Recognition

· An Eye Tracker with no hardware requirements other than a computer and a camera (in collaboration with Eva Peral and Pietro Perona)

· Olfaction

· Winnerless competition and dynamic attractors (in collaboration with Valentin Zhigulin)

The Functions of Sleep

Vision (with Eva Peral)

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