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Jonathan W. Pillow

Jonathan W. Pillow

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Neuroscience

D-Index
48
Citations
11694
World Ranking
6121
National Ranking
2675

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Jonathan W. Pillow is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and specializes in the field of neuroscience, with a primary focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research spans various subfields including artificial intelligence, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, and biophysics.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neurobiology and insect physiology research
  • Memory and neural mechanisms
  • Gaussian processes and Bayesian inference
  • Functional brain connectivity studies

Jonathan W. Pillow has contributed to multiple frequent publication venues, with significant numbers of publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nature
  • Neural Computation
  • Nature Neuroscience

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Mice alternate between discrete strategies during perceptual decision-making," 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Prefrontal cortex exhibits multidimensional dynamic encoding during decision-making," 2020, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Extracting the dynamics of behavior in sensory decision-making experiments," 2021, Neuron
  • "Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state," 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Neural anatomy and optical microscopy (NAOMi) simulation for evaluating calcium imaging methods," 2021, Journal of Neuroscience Methods

The scientist collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Zoe C. Ashwood
  • Carlos D. Brody
  • Ilana B. Witten
  • Nicholas Roy
  • Anne E Urai

Jonathan W. Pillow was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2011, an acknowledgment reflecting their contributions within the scientific community.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Discovering Event Structure in Continuous Narrative Perception and Memory

    Christopher Baldassano;Janice Chen;Asieh Zadbood;Jonathan William Pillow

  • Spike-triggered neural characterization.

    Odelia Schwartz;Jonathan W. Pillow;Nicole C. Rust;Eero P. Simoncelli

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

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

  • Characterization of Neural Responses with Stochastic Stimuli

    Eero Simoncelli;Jonathan W. Pillow;Jonathan W. Pillow;Jonathan W. Pillow;Liam Paninski;Liam Paninski;Liam Paninski;Odelia Schwartz;Odelia Schwartz;Odelia Schwartz

  • Single-trial spike trains in parietal cortex reveal discrete steps during decision-making

    Kenneth W. Latimer;Jacob L. Yates;Miriam L.R. Meister;Miriam L.R. Meister;Alexander C Huk

  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Stochastic Integrate-and-Fire Neural Encoding Model

    Liam Paninski;Jonathan W. Pillow;Eero P. Simoncelli

  • Statistical models for neural encoding, decoding, and optimal stimulus design

    Liam Paninski;Jonathan William Pillow;Jeremy Lewi

  • Encoding and decoding in parietal cortex during sensorimotor decision-making

    Il Memming Park;Miriam L.R. Meister;Alexander C. Huk;Jonathan William Pillow

  • Combined Social and Spatial Coding in a Descending Projection from the Prefrontal Cortex

    Malavika Murugan;Hee Jae Jang;Michelle Park;Ellia M. Miller

  • Dissociated functional significance of decision-related activity in the primate dorsal stream

    Leor N. Katz;Jacob L. Yates;Jonathan W. Pillow;Alexander C. Huk

  • Computational approaches to fMRI analysis.

    Jonathan D Cohen;Nathaniel Daw;Barbara Engelhardt;Uri Hasson

  • Mice alternate between discrete strategies during perceptual decision-making

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  • Unsupervised identification of the internal states that shape natural behavior.

    Adam J. Calhoun;Jonathan W. Pillow;Mala Murthy

  • Dimensionality reduction in neural models: an information-theoretic generalization of spike-triggered average and covariance analysis.

    Jonathan William Pillow;Eero P. Simoncelli

  • Prefrontal cortex exhibits multidimensional dynamic encoding during decision-making.

    Mikio C. Aoi;Mikio C. Aoi;Valerio Mante;Jonathan W. Pillow

  • Model-based decoding, information estimation, and change-point detection techniques for multineuron spike trains

    Jonathan W. Pillow;Yashar Ahmadian;Liam Paninski

  • 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

  • Volumetric two-photon imaging of neurons using stereoscopy (vTwINS)

    Alexander Song;Adam S. Charles;Sue Ann Koay;Jeff L. Gauthier

  • Error-correcting dynamics in visual working memory

    Matthew F. Panichello;Brian DePasquale;Jonathan William Pillow;Timothy J. Buschman

  • Modeling the impact of common noise inputs on the network activity of retinal ganglion cells

    Michael Vidne;Yashar Ahmadian;Jonathon Shlens;Jonathan W. Pillow

  • Perceptual Completion across the Vertical Meridian and the Role of Early Visual Cortex

    Jonathan William Pillow;Nava Rubin

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth A. Norman
Kenneth A. Norman Princeton University
Fred Rieke
Fred Rieke University of Washington
Carlos D. Brody
Carlos D. Brody Princeton University
E. J. Chichilnisky
E. J. Chichilnisky Stanford University
Yael Niv
Yael Niv Princeton University
David W. Tank
David W. Tank Princeton University
Ilana B. Witten
Ilana B. Witten Princeton University
Uri Hasson
Uri Hasson Princeton University
Gaute T. Einevoll
Gaute T. Einevoll Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Heidi I.L. Jacobs
Heidi I.L. Jacobs Harvard University

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