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David W. Tank is a researcher affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Additional subfields include Biophysics, Molecular Biology, and Surfaces, Coatings and Films.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics including Neural dynamics and brain function, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques, and Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David W. Tank include:

  • Geometry of abstract learned knowledge in the hippocampus, 2021, Nature
  • The Mind of a Mouse, 2020, Cell
  • Sequential and efficient neural-population coding of complex task information, 2021, Neuron
  • Neural anatomy and optical microscopy (NAOMi) simulation for evaluating calcium imaging methods, 2021, Journal of Neuroscience Methods
  • Novel stimuli evoke excess activity in the mouse primary visual cortex, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Carlos D. Brody
  • Stephan Y. Thiberge
  • Sue Ann Koay
  • Lucas Pinto
  • H. Sebastian Seung

Publication venues where David W. Tank has frequently contributed are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Nature Communications
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature

Best Publications

  • Neural computation of decisions in optimization problems

    J. J. Hopfield;D. W. Tank

  • Brain magnetic resonance imaging with contrast dependent on blood oxygenation

    S Ogawa;T M Lee;A R Kay;D W Tank

  • INTRINSIC SIGNAL CHANGES ACCOMPANYING SENSORY STIMULATION: FUNCTIONAL BRAIN MAPPING WITH MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

    Seiji Ogawa;David W. Tank;Ravi Menon;Jutta M. Ellermann

  • Computing with neural circuits: a model

    John J. Hopfield;John J. Hopfield;David W. Tank

  • Simple “Neural” optimization networks: an A/D converter, signal decision circuit, and a linear programming circuit

    David W. Tank;John J. Hopfield

  • Functional brain mapping by blood oxygenation level-dependent contrast magnetic resonance imaging. A comparison of signal characteristics with a biophysical model.

    S. Ogawa;R. S. Menon;D. W. Tank;S. G. Kim

  • Imaging Large-Scale Neural Activity with Cellular Resolution in Awake, Mobile Mice

    Daniel A. Dombeck;Anton N. Khabbaz;Forrest Collman;Thomas L. Adelman

  • Choice-specific sequences in parietal cortex during a virtual-navigation decision task

    Christopher D. Harvey;Philip Coen;David W. Tank

  • In vivo dendritic calcium dynamics in neocortical pyramidal neurons

    Karel Svoboda;Winfried Denk;David Kleinfeld;David Kleinfeld;David W. Tank

  • Intracellular dynamics of hippocampal place cells during virtual navigation

    Christopher D. Harvey;Forrest Collman;Daniel A. Dombeck;David W. Tank

  • Functional imaging of hippocampal place cells at cellular resolution during virtual navigation

    Daniel A Dombeck;Christopher D Harvey;Lin Tian;Loren L Looger

  • CaImAn an open source tool for scalable calcium imaging data analysis

    Andrea Giovannucci;Johannes Friedrich;Pat Gunn;Jérémie Kalfon

  • Mapping of a non-spatial dimension by the hippocampal–entorhinal circuit

    Dmitriy Aronov;Rhino Nevers;David W. Tank

  • A Miniature Head-Mounted Two-Photon Microscope: High-Resolution Brain Imaging in Freely Moving Animals

    Fritjof Helmchen;Michale S. Fee;David W. Tank;Winfried Denk

  • Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons

    Ben Engelhard;Joel Finkelstein;Julia Cox;Weston Fleming

  • Anatomical and functional imaging of neurons using 2-photon laser scanning microscopy

    W. Denk;K. R. Delaney;A. Gelperin;D. Kleinfeld

  • Recurrent Network Models Of Sequence Generation And Memory

    Kanaka Rajan;Christopher D D. Harvey;David W W. Tank

  • 4 Tesla gradient recalled echo characteristics of photic stimulation‐induced signal changes in the human primary visual cortex

    Ravi S. Menon;Seiji Ogawa;David W. Tank;Kamil Ugurbil

  • Neural computation by concentrating information in time

    David W. Tank;J. J. Hopfield

  • Dendritic Integration in Mammalian Neurons, a Century after Cajal

    Rafael Yuste;David W Tank

  • Spatially resolved calcium dynamics of mammalian Purkinje cells in cerebellar slice.

    David W. Tank;Mutsuyuki Sugimori;John A. Connor;Rodolfo R. Llinás

Frequent Co-Authors

Carlos D. Brody
Carlos D. Brody Princeton University
Alan Gelperin
Alan Gelperin Princeton University
Karel Svoboda
Karel Svoboda Allen Institute
Fritjof Helmchen
Fritjof Helmchen University of Zurich
Kerry R. Delaney
Kerry R. Delaney University of Victoria
Wade G. Regehr
Wade G. Regehr Harvard Medical School
Kamil Ugurbil
Kamil Ugurbil University of Minnesota
David Kleinfeld
David Kleinfeld University of California, San Diego
Robert Baker
Robert Baker New York University
Rafael Yuste
Rafael Yuste Columbia University

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