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Overview

Daniel H. O'Connor is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States and is active in neuroscience research, particularly focusing on neural dynamics and brain function. Their scholarly work spans various specialized fields within neuroscience and related disciplines.

The main fields of study for Daniel H. O'Connor include:

  • Neuroscience

Within neuroscience, their subfields of study cover:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Sensory Systems
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems

The primary topics of O'Connor's research encompass:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Neural Engineering
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Muscle activation and electromyography studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Among their frequent co-authors are:

  • William Olson
  • Jeong Jun Kim
  • Duo Xu
  • Samuel J. Sober
  • Yi-Ting Chang

Daniel H. O'Connor's publications often appear in journals and archives with a focus on neuroscience, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Cell Reports
  • Neuron
  • Neuroscience

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Daniel H. O'Connor include:

  • "Neural activity in the mouse claustrum in a cross-modal sensory selection task" (2021) published in Neuron
  • "Cortical processing of flexible and context-dependent sensorimotor sequences" (2022) published in Nature
  • "Of mice and monkeys: Somatosensory processing in two prominent animal models" (2021) published in Progress in Neurobiology
  • "Locus coeruleus spiking differently correlates with S1 cortex activity and pupil diameter in a tactile detection task" (2021) published in eLife
  • "Myomatrix arrays for high-definition muscle recording" (2023) published in eLife

Best Publications

  • Attention modulates responses in the human lateral geniculate nucleus.

    Daniel H. O'Connor;Miki M. Fukui;Mark A. Pinsk;Sabine Kastner

  • Nonlinear dendritic integration of sensory and motor input during an active sensing task

    Ning Long Xu;Mark T. Harnett;Stephen R. Williams;Daniel Huber;Daniel Huber

  • Multiple dynamic representations in the motor cortex during sensorimotor learning

    Daniel Huber;D.A. Gutnisky;S. Peron;D. H. O’Connor

  • Neural Activity in Barrel Cortex Underlying Vibrissa-Based Object Localization in Mice

    Daniel H. O'Connor;Simon P. Peron;Daniel Huber;Karel Svoboda

  • Learning-related fine-scale specificity imaged in motor cortex circuits of behaving mice.

    Takaki Komiyama;Takashi R. Sato;Daniel H. Oconnor;Ying Xin Zhang;Ying Xin Zhang

  • Procedures for behavioral experiments in head-fixed mice.

    Zengcai V. Guo;S. Andrew Hires;Nuo Li;Daniel H. O'Connor

  • Activity in motor–sensory projections reveals distributed coding in somatosensation

    Leopoldo Petreanu;Diego A. Gutnisky;Daniel Huber;Daniel Huber;Ning Long Xu

  • Vibrissa-Based Object Localization in Head-Fixed Mice

    Daniel H. O'Connor;Nathan G. Clack;Daniel Huber;Takaki Komiyama

  • The time course of competition for attention: attention is initially labile.

    Mary C. Potter;Adrian Staub;Daniel H. O'Connor

  • How silent is the brain: is there a "dark matter" problem in neuroscience?

    Shy Shoham;Shy Shoham;Daniel H. O’Connor;Ronen Segev

  • Graded bidirectional synaptic plasticity is composed of switch-like unitary events.

    Daniel H. O'Connor;Gayle M. Wittenberg;Samuel S.-H. Wang

  • Functional Imaging of the Human Lateral Geniculate Nucleus and Pulvinar

    Sabine Kastner;Daniel H. O'Connor;Miki M. Fukui;Hilda M. Fehd

  • Neural coding during active somatosensation revealed using illusory touch

    Daniel H. O'Connor;S. Andrew Hires;Zengcai V. Guo;Nuo Li

  • Characterization and subcellular targeting of GCaMP-type genetically-encoded calcium indicators

    Tianyi Mao;Tianyi Mao;Daniel H. O'Connor;Daniel H. O'Connor;Volker Scheuss;Volker Scheuss;Volker Scheuss;Junichi Nakai

  • Sensory and decision-related activity propagate in a cortical feedback loop during touch perception

    Sung Eun Kwon;Hongdian Yang;Genki Minamisawa;Daniel H O'Connor

  • Origins of choice-related activity in mouse somatosensory cortex

    Hongdian Yang;Sung E Kwon;Kyle S Severson;Daniel H O'Connor

  • Rapid neurotransmitter uncaging in spatially defined patterns

    Shy Shoham;Daniel H. O'Connor;Dmitry V. Sarkisov;Samuel Sheng-Hung Wang

  • Automated Tracking of Whiskers in Videos of Head Fixed Rodents

    Nathan G. Clack;Daniel H. O'Connor;Daniel Huber;Leopoldo T. Petreanu

  • Reverse engineering the mouse brain

    Daniel H. O'Connor;Daniel Huber;Karel Svoboda

  • The Mechanical Variables Underlying Object Localization along the Axis of the Whisker

    L. Pammer;D. H. O'Connor;S. A. Hires;N. G. Clack

  • Recognition memory for briefly presented pictures: the time course of rapid forgetting.

    Mary C. Potter;Adrian Staub;Janina Rado;Daniel H. O'Connor

Frequent Co-Authors

Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Samuel S.-H. Wang
Samuel S.-H. Wang Princeton University
Shiranee Sriskandan
Shiranee Sriskandan Imperial College London
Matt J. Neville
Matt J. Neville University of Oxford
Takaki Komiyama
Takaki Komiyama University of California, San Diego
Sabine Kastner
Sabine Kastner Princeton University
Gavin R. Screaton
Gavin R. Screaton University of Oxford
Ye Chu
Ye Chu University of Georgia

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