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  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Dean V. Buonomano is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their primary field of study is Neuroscience, with a focus on subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence.

The main topics of Dean V. Buonomano's research include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research

Dean V. Buonomano's recent papers demonstrate an ongoing engagement with neural dynamics, memory, and sensory function in the brain. Selected publications include:

  • "Neural Sequences as an Optimal Dynamical Regime for the Readout of Time," 2020, Neuron
  • "Differential Short-Term Plasticity of PV and SST Neurons Accounts for Adaptation and Facilitation of Cortical Neurons to Auditory Tones," 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • "Improvement of sensory deficits in fragile X mice by increasing cortical interneuron activity after the critical period," 2023, Neuron
  • "Multiplexing working memory and time in the trajectories of neural networks," 2023, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Time for Memories," 2023, Journal of Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators of Dean V. Buonomano include Shanglin Zhou, Michael J. Seay, Benjamin Liu, Jiannis Taxidis, and Peyman Golshani. These coauthorships reflect a collaborative approach across various aspects of neuroscience research.

Their work has been published in several prominent venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neuron
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Human Behaviour

Dean V. Buonomano was awarded the distinction of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1998. This recognition forms part of their established scientific contributions.

Best Publications

  • CORTICAL PLASTICITY: From Synapses to Maps

    Dean V. Buonomano;Michael M. Merzenich

  • The neural basis of temporal processing

    Michael D. Mauk;Dean V. Buonomano

  • State-dependent computations: spatiotemporal processing in cortical networks

    Dean V. Buonomano;Wolfgang Maass

  • Timing in the absence of clocks: encoding time in neural network states.

    Uma R. Karmarkar;Dean V. Buonomano

  • Temporal Information Transformed into a Spatial Code by a Neural Network with Realistic Properties

    Dean V. Buonomano;Michael M. Merzenich

  • Robust timing and motor patterns by taming chaos in recurrent neural networks

    Rodrigo Laje;Dean V Buonomano

  • The Neural Basis of Timing: Distributed Mechanisms for Diverse Functions

    Joseph J. Paton;Dean V. Buonomano

  • Decoding Temporal Information: A Model Based on Short-Term Synaptic Plasticity

    Dean V. Buonomano

  • Complexity without chaos: Plasticity within random recurrent networks generates robust timing and motor control

    Rodrigo Laje;Dean V. Buonomano

  • Neural network model of the cerebellum: temporal discrimination and the timing of motor responses

    Dean V. Buonomano;Michael D. Mauk

  • Learning and Generalization of Auditory Temporal–Interval Discrimination in Humans

    Beverly Ann Wright;Dean V. Buonomano;Henry W. Mahncke;Michael M. Merzenich

  • Distortions of subjective time perception within and across senses.

    Virginie van Wassenhove;Dean V. Buonomano;Shinsuke Shimojo;Ladan Shams

  • How do we tell time

    Dean V. Buonomano;Uma R. Karmarkar

  • Time and the brain: how subjective time relates to neural time.

    David M. Eagleman;Peter U. Tse;Dean Buonomano;Peter Janssen

  • A model of spike-timing dependent plasticity: one or two coincidence detectors?

    Uma R. Karmarkar;Dean V. Buonomano

  • Population clocks: motor timing with neural dynamics

    Dean V. Buonomano;Rodrigo Laje;Rodrigo Laje

  • Temporal specificity of perceptual learning in an auditory discrimination task.

    Uma R. Karmarkar;Dean V. Buonomano

  • Differential Encoding of Time by Prefrontal and Striatal Network Dynamics

    Konstantin I. Bakhurin;Vishwa Goudar;Justin L. Shobe;Leslie D. Claar

  • The biology of time across different scales

    Dean V Buonomano

  • Differential effects of excitatory and inhibitory plasticity on synaptically driven neuronal input-output functions.

    Tiago P. Carvalho;Dean V. Buonomano

Frequent Co-Authors

John H. Byrne
John H. Byrne The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Michael M. Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich University of California, San Francisco
Douglas A. Baxter
Douglas A. Baxter The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Michael D. Mauk
Michael D. Mauk The University of Texas at Austin
Anna C. Nobre
Anna C. Nobre Yale University
Shihab A. Shamma
Shihab A. Shamma University of Maryland, College Park
Henning Scheich
Henning Scheich Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology
Virginie van Wassenhove
Virginie van Wassenhove University of Paris-Saclay
Ladan Shams
Ladan Shams University of California, Los Angeles
Peter U. Tse
Peter U. Tse Dartmouth College

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