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E. J. Chichilnisky

E. J. Chichilnisky

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Neuroscience

D-Index
58
Citations
14340
World Ranking
4129
National Ranking
1874

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

E. J. Chichilnisky is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and engineering, with significant contributions to subfields including cellular and molecular neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, electrical and electronic engineering, molecular biology, and biophysics.

The main topics of their work cover a variety of areas such as neuroscience and neural engineering, neural dynamics and brain function, advanced memory and neural computing, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, retinal development and disorders, and visual perception and processing mechanisms.

Chichilnisky has contributed to research published in multiple venues frequently, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Neural Engineering
  • eLife
  • IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
  • Journal of Neuroscience

Selected recent publications by Chichilnisky include:

  • Massively parallel microwire arrays integrated with CMOS chips for neural recording, 2020, Science Advances
  • YASS: Yet Another Spike Sorter applied to large-scale multi-electrode array recordings in primate retina, 2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Reconstruction of natural images from responses of primate retinal ganglion cells, 2020, eLife
  • Inference of nonlinear receptive field subunits with spike-triggered clustering, 2020, eLife
  • Computational challenges and opportunities for a bi-directional artificial retina, 2020, Journal of Neural Engineering

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Alexander Sher
  • A. M. Litke
  • Alexandra Kling
  • Nishal P. Shah
  • Alex Gogliettino

Among the awards received, Chichilnisky was named a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2000.

Best Publications

  • Spatio-temporal correlations and visual signalling in a complete neuronal population

    Jonathan William Pillow;Jonathon Shlens;Liam Paninski;Alexander Sher

  • fMRI of human visual cortex

    Stephen A. Engel;David E. Rumelhart;Brian A. Wandell;Adrian T. Lee

  • A simple white noise analysis of neuronal light responses.

    E.J. Chichilnisky

  • The structure of multi-neuron firing patterns in primate retina

    Jonathon Shlens;Greg D. Field;Jeffrey L. Gauthier;Matthew I. Grivich

  • Functional asymmetries in ON and OFF ganglion cells of primate retina

    E. J. Chichilnisky;Rachel S. Kalmar

  • Information Processing in the Primate Retina: Circuitry and Coding

    G. D. Field;E. J. Chichilnisky

  • Prediction and decoding of retinal ganglion cell responses with a probabilistic spiking model.

    Jonathan W. Pillow;Liam Paninski;Valerie J. Uzzell;Eero P. Simoncelli

  • What does the eye tell the brain?: Development of a system for the large-scale recording of retinal output activity

    A.M. Litke;N. Bezayiff;E.J. Chichilnisky;W. Cunningham

  • Functional connectivity in the retina at the resolution of photoreceptors

    Greg D. Field;Jeffrey L. Gauthier;Jeffrey L. Gauthier;Alexander Sher;Martin Greschner

  • Electrical Stimulation of Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cells With Multielectrode Arrays

    Chris Sekirnjak;Pawel Hottowy;Alexander Sher;Wladyslaw Dabrowski

  • Adaptation to Temporal Contrast in Primate and Salamander Retina

    Divya Chander;E. J. Chichilnisky

  • High-Resolution Electrical Stimulation of Primate Retina for Epiretinal Implant Design

    Chris Sekirnjak;Pawel Hottowy;Alexander Sher;Wladyslaw Dabrowski

  • Spatial Properties and Functional Organization of Small Bistratified Ganglion Cells in Primate Retina

    Greg D. Field;Alexander Sher;Jeffrey L. Gauthier;Martin Greschner

  • Precision of spike trains in primate retinal ganglion cells.

    V. J. Uzzell;E. J. Chichilnisky

  • Massively parallel microwire arrays integrated with CMOS chips for neural recording

    Abdulmalik Obaid;Mina-Elraheb Hanna;Yu-Wei Wu;Mihaly Kollo;Mihaly Kollo

  • Identification and Characterization of a Y-Like Primate Retinal Ganglion Cell Type

    Dumitru Petrusca;Matthew I Grivich;Alexander Sher;Greg D Field

  • The Structure of Large-Scale Synchronized Firing in Primate Retina

    Jonathon Shlens;Greg D. Field;Jeffrey L. Gauthier;Martin Greschner

  • Photoreceptor sensitivity changes explain color appearance shifts induced by large uniform backgrounds in dichoptic matching

    Eduardo-José Chichilnisky;Brian A. Wandell

  • Direction Selectivity in the Retina Is Established Independent of Visual Experience and Cholinergic Retinal Waves

    Justin Elstrott;Anastasia Anishchenko;Martin Greschner;Alexander Sher

  • A Model-Based Spike Sorting Algorithm for Removing Correlation Artifacts in Multi-Neuron Recordings

    Jonathan W. Pillow;Jonathon Shlens;E. J. Chichilnisky;Eero P. Simoncelli

  • Fidelity of the ensemble code for visual motion in primate retina.

    E. S. Frechette;A. Sher;M. I. Grivich;D. Petrusca

  • Receptive-field microstructure of blue-yellow ganglion cells in primate retina.

    E. J. Chichilnisky;E. J. Chichilnisky;D. A. Baylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander Sher
Alexander Sher University of California, Santa Cruz
Brian A. Wandell
Brian A. Wandell Stanford University
Fred Rieke
Fred Rieke University of Washington
Jonathan W. Pillow
Jonathan W. Pillow Princeton University
Thomas D. Albright
Thomas D. Albright Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Marla B. Feller
Marla B. Feller University of California, Berkeley
Gaute T. Einevoll
Gaute T. Einevoll Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Boris Murmann
Boris Murmann University of Hawaii at Manoa
Nicholas A. Melosh
Nicholas A. Melosh Stanford University

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