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  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Brent Doiron is a researcher affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their work primarily spans the field of Neuroscience, with a specific emphasis on subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural Networks and Applications

Brent Doiron has contributed to several scientific papers, with recent publications including:

  • Large-scale neural recordings call for new insights to link brain and behavior, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • Cortical VIP neurons locally control the gain but globally control the coherence of gamma band rhythms, 2022, Neuron
  • The logic of recurrent circuits in the primary visual cortex, 2024, Nature Neuroscience
  • Assembly formation is stabilized by Parvalbumin neurons and accelerated by Somatostatin neurons, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Untangling stability and gain modulation in cortical circuits with multiple interneuron classes, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The venues where Brent Doiron frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Science Advances

The researcher collaborates regularly with several colleagues. Their most frequent co-authors are:

  • Gregory Handy
  • Chengcheng Huang
  • Hillel Adesnik
  • Anne-Marie M. Oswald
  • Christoph Miehl

Brent Doiron received recognition as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2009, marking an acknowledgment of their contributions to their field.

Best Publications

  • Correlation between neural spike trains increases with firing rate.

    Jaime de la Rocha;Brent Doiron;Brent Doiron;Brent Doiron;Eric Shea-Brown;Eric Shea-Brown;Krešimir Josić

  • Slow dynamics and high variability in balanced cortical networks with clustered connections

    Ashok Litwin-Kumar;Brent Doiron

  • Formation and maintenance of neuronal assemblies through synaptic plasticity

    Ashok Litwin-Kumar;Brent Doiron

  • Large-scale neural recordings call for new insights to link brain and behavior

    Anne E. Urai;Brent Doiron;Andrew M. Leifer;Anne K. Churchland

  • The mechanics of state-dependent neural correlations.

    Brent Doiron;Ashok Litwin-Kumar;Ashok Litwin-Kumar;Robert Rosenbaum;Gabriel K Ocker;Gabriel K Ocker

  • The spatial structure of correlated neuronal variability

    Robert Rosenbaum;Matthew A Smith;Adam Kohn;Jonathan E Rubin

  • Parallel Processing of Sensory Input by Bursts and Isolated Spikes

    Anne-Marie M. Oswald;Maurice J. Chacron;Brent Doiron;Joseph Bastian

  • Integrating Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity: the current state of the field and future research directions

    Tara Keck;Taro Toyoizumi;Lu Chen;Brent Doiron

  • Non-classical receptive field mediates switch in a sensory neuron's frequency tuning

    Maurice J. Chacron;Brent Doiron;Leonard Maler;André Longtin

  • Theory of oscillatory firing induced by spatially correlated noise and delayed inhibitory feedback

    Benjamin Lindner;Brent Doiron;André Longtin

  • Inhibitory feedback required for network oscillatory responses to communication but not prey stimuli

    Brent Doiron;Maurice J. Chacron;Leonard Maler;André Longtin

  • Inhibitory stabilization and visual coding in cortical circuits with multiple interneuron subtypes.

    X Ashok Litwin-Kumar;Robert Rosenbaum;Brent Doiron

  • Circuit Models of Low-Dimensional Shared Variability in Cortical Networks.

    Chengcheng Huang;Douglas A. Ruff;Ryan Pyle;Robert Rosenbaum

  • Ghostbursting: a novel neuronal burst mechanism.

    Brent Doiron;Carlo R. Laing;André Longtin;Leonard Maler

  • Correlation and synchrony transfer in integrate-and-fire neurons: basic properties and consequences for coding.

    Eric Shea-Brown;Eric Shea-Brown;Krešimir Josić;Jaime de la Rocha;Brent Doiron;Brent Doiron

  • Deterministic multiplicative gain control with active dendrites.

    W. Hamish Mehaffey;Brent Doiron;Leonard Maler;Ray W. Turner

  • Balanced Networks of Spiking Neurons with Spatially Dependent Recurrent Connections

    Robert Rosenbaum;Brent Doiron

  • Subtractive and Divisive Inhibition: Effect of Voltage-Dependent Inhibitory Conductances and Noise

    Brent Doiron;André Longtin;Neil Berman;Leonard Maler

  • Oscillatory activity in electrosensory neurons increases with the spatial correlation of the stochastic input stimulus.

    Brent Doiron;Benjamin Lindner;André Longtin;Leonard Maler

  • Interval Coding. I. Burst Interspike Intervals as Indicators of Stimulus Intensity

    Anne-Marie M. Oswald;Brent Doiron;Leonard Maler

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonard Maler
Leonard Maler University of Ottawa
Jonathan E. Rubin
Jonathan E. Rubin University of Pittsburgh
Ray W. Turner
Ray W. Turner University of Calgary
Maurice J. Chacron
Maurice J. Chacron McGill University
Joseph Bastian
Joseph Bastian University of Oklahoma
John Rinzel
John Rinzel New York University
Robert Williamson
Robert Williamson University of Melbourne
Alex D. Reyes
Alex D. Reyes New York University
Nathaniel N. Urban
Nathaniel N. Urban University of Pittsburgh
Frank Sengpiel
Frank Sengpiel Cardiff University

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