David Ferster

Research.com Recognitions

• 2010 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 1984 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• Stimulus onset quenches neural variability: a widespread cortical phenomenon

  Mark M. Churchland;Byron M. Yu;Byron M. Yu;John P. Cunningham;Leo P. Sugrue;Leo P. Sugrue

  1286
  Citations

• Synfire Chains and Cortical Songs: Temporal Modules of Cortical Activity

  Yuji Ikegaya;Gloster Aaron;Rosa Cossart;Dmitriy Aronov

  1064
  Citations

• Neural Mechanisms of Orientation Selectivity in the Visual Cortex

  David Ferster;Kenneth D. Miller

  811
  Citations

• Orientation selectivity of thalamic input to simple cells of cat visual cortex

  David L Ferster;Sooyoung Chung;Heidi Wheat

  651
  Citations

• Orientation tuning of input conductance, excitation, and inhibition in cat primary visual cortex.

  Jeffrey S. Anderson;Matteo Carandini;Matteo Carandini;Matteo Carandini;David Ferster

  616
  Citations

• Inhibitory stabilization of the cortical network underlies visual surround suppression

  Hirofumi Ozeki;Ian M. Finn;Evan S. Schaffer;Kenneth D. Miller

  551
  Citations

• Membrane Potential and Firing Rate in Cat Primary Visual Cortex

  Matteo Carandini;Matteo Carandini;Matteo Carandini;David Ferster

  491
  Citations

• The Contribution of Noise to Contrast Invariance of Orientation Tuning in Cat Visual Cortex

  Jeffrey S. Anderson;Ilan Lampl;Deda C. Gillespie;David Ferster

  482
  Citations

• Synchronous membrane potential fluctuations in neurons of the cat visual cortex.

  Ilan Lampl;Iva Reichova;David Ferster

  481
  Citations

• A Tonic Hyperpolarization Underlying Contrast Adaptation in Cat Visual Cortex

  Matteo Carandini;David Ferster

  455
  Citations

• Inhibition, spike threshold, and stimulus selectivity in primary visual cortex.

  Nicholas J. Priebe;David Ferster

  443
  Citations

• The axonal arborizations of lateral geniculate neurons in the striate cortex of the cat

  David Ferster;Simon Levy

  409
  Citations

• Orientation selectivity of synaptic potentials in neurons of cat primary visual cortex.

  D Ferster

  372
  Citations

• An intracellular analysis of geniculo-cortical connectivity in area 17 of the cat.

  D Ferster;S Lindström

  369
  Citations

• A comparison of binocular depth mechanisms in areas 17 and 18 of the cat visual cortex

  David Ferster

  356
  Citations

• Strength and Orientation Tuning of the Thalamic Input to Simple Cells Revealed by Electrically Evoked Cortical Suppression

  Sooyoung Chung;David Ferster

  335
  Citations

• Spatially opponent excitation and inhibition in simple cells of the cat visual cortex

  David Ferster

  330
  Citations

• Direction selectivity of excitation and inhibition in simple cells of the cat primary visual cortex.

  Nicholas J. Priebe;David L Ferster

  325
  Citations

• The emergence of contrast-invariant orientation tuning in simple cells of cat visual cortex.

  Ian M. Finn;Nicholas J. Priebe;David L Ferster

  304
  Citations

• Linearity of summation of synaptic potentials underlying direction selectivity in simple cells of the cat visual cortex

  Bharathi Jagadeesh;Heidi S. Wheat;David Ferster

  302
  Citations