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Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo

Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo

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Neuroscience

D-Index
37
Citations
7042
World Ranking
8728
National Ranking
511

Overview

Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and has an extensive body of research in the field of neuroscience. Their work spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, genetics, electrical and electronic engineering, and molecular biology.

The primary areas of study for this scientist include neural dynamics and brain function, memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural and behavioral psychology studies, neuroscience and neural engineering, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Recent publications reflect a focus on neural and visual processing mechanisms as well as broader brain function topics. Notable papers include:

  • Spontaneous travelling cortical waves gate perception in behaving primates (2020, Nature)
  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics (2020, Neuron)
  • Changes in the Proportion of Inhibitory Interneuron Types from Sensory to Executive Areas of the Primate Neocortex: Implications for the Origins of Working Memory Representations (2020, Cerebral Cortex)
  • Multielectrode Arrays for Functional Phenotyping of Neurons from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (2022, Biology)
  • Visual Attention in the Prefrontal Cortex (2022, Annual Review of Vision Science)

The scientist frequently publishes in several venues known for neuroscience research, including:

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

Frequent collaborators include Benjamin Corrigan, Roberto A. Gulli, Megan Roussy, Adam Sachs, and Rogelio Luna, reflecting ongoing partnerships within the field.

The topics covered in their research commonly address neural dynamics and brain function, memory mechanisms, visual perception, and neural engineering among others, indicating a broad interdisciplinary approach to understanding brain activity and behavior.

Best Publications

  • Feature-based attention influences motion processing gain in macaque visual cortex

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  • Feature-based attention increases the selectivity of population responses in primate visual cortex.

    Julio C Martinez-Trujillo;Stefan Treue

  • Attentional Modulation Strength in Cortical Area MT Depends on Stimulus Contrast

    Julio C. Martı́nez-Trujillo;Stefan Treue

  • Sharp emergence of feature-selective sustained activity along the dorsal visual pathway

    Diego Mendoza-Halliday;Santiago Torres;Julio C Martinez-Trujillo

  • A community-based transcriptomics classification and nomenclature of neocortical cell types

    Rafael Yuste;Michael Hawrylycz;Nadia Aalling;Argel Aguilar-Valles

  • Spontaneous travelling cortical waves gate perception in behaving primates

    Zachary W. Davis;Lyle Muller;Julio Martinez-Trujillo;Terrence Sejnowski

  • Sustained Activity Encoding Working Memories: Not Fully Distributed.

    Matthew L. Leavitt;Diego Mendoza-Halliday;Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo

  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics.

    Sébastien Tremblay;Leah Acker;Arash Afraz;Daniel L. Albaugh

  • Attending to visual motion

    John K. Tsotsos;Yueju Liu;Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo;Marc Pomplun

  • Neural control of three-dimensional eye and head movements.

    JD Crawford;JC Martinez-Trujillo;EM Klier

  • Attentional filtering of visual information by neuronal ensembles in the primate lateral prefrontal cortex.

    Sébastien Tremblay;Sébastien Tremblay;Florian Pieper;Adam Sachs;Julio Martinez-Trujillo;Julio Martinez-Trujillo

  • Correlated variability modifies working memory fidelity in primate prefrontal neuronal ensembles.

    Matthew L Leavitt;Florian Pieper;Adam J Sachs;Julio C Martinez-Trujillo;Julio C Martinez-Trujillo

  • Context-dependent representations of objects and space in the primate hippocampus during virtual navigation

    Roberto A. Gulli;Lyndon R. Duong;Lyndon R. Duong;Benjamin W. Corrigan;Benjamin W. Corrigan;Guillaume Doucet;Guillaume Doucet;Guillaume Doucet

  • Frames of Reference for Eye-Head Gaze Commands in Primate Supplementary Eye Fields

    Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo;Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo;W.Pieter Medendorp;W.Pieter Medendorp;Hongying Wang;J.Douglas Crawford

  • Strength of Response Suppression to Distracter Stimuli Determines Attentional-Filtering Performance in Primate Prefrontal Neurons

    Therese Lennert;Julio Martinez-Trujillo

  • Neuronal population coding of perceived and memorized visual features in the lateral prefrontal cortex.

    Diego Mendoza-Halliday;Diego Mendoza-Halliday;Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo

  • Electrical Stimulation of the Supplementary Eye Fields in the Head-Free Macaque Evokes Kinematically Normal Gaze Shifts

    Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo;Hongying Wang;J. Douglas Crawford

  • Multielectrode Arrays for Functional Phenotyping of Neurons from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Models of Neurodevelopmental Disorders

    Unknown

  • Changes in the Proportion of Inhibitory Interneuron Types from Sensory to Executive Areas of the Primate Neocortex: Implications for the Origins of Working Memory Representations.

    Santiago Torres-Gomez;Jackson D Blonde;Diego Mendoza-Halliday;Eric Kuebler

  • Frequency-Dependent Attentional Modulation of Local Field Potential Signals in Macaque Area MT

    Paul S. Khayat;Robert Niebergall;Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo

  • Expansion of MT Neurons Excitatory Receptive Fields during Covert Attentive Tracking

    Robert Niebergall;Paul S. Khayat;Stefan Treue;Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo

  • Attention Differentially Modulates Similar Neuronal Responses Evoked by Varying Contrast and Direction Stimuli in Area MT

    Paul S. Khayat;Robert Niebergall;Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo

  • Single-Trial Decoding of Visual Attention from Local Field Potentials in the Primate Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Is Frequency-Dependent

    Sébastien Tremblay;Guillaume Doucet;Florian Pieper;Adam Sachs

Frequent Co-Authors

Sébastien Tremblay
Sébastien Tremblay Université Laval
Lena Palaniyappan
Lena Palaniyappan McGill University
Ridha Joober
Ridha Joober Douglas Mental Health University Institute
J. Douglas Crawford
J. Douglas Crawford York University
Daniel S. Messinger
Daniel S. Messinger University of Miami
Douglas Cheyne
Douglas Cheyne University of Toronto
Stefan Everling
Stefan Everling University of Western Ontario
Michael O. Poulter
Michael O. Poulter University of Western Ontario
William Gaetz
William Gaetz Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Pierre Jolicoeur
Pierre Jolicoeur University of Montreal

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