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Overview

Leonard Maler is affiliated with the University of Ottawa in Canada and focuses their research primarily in the fields of neuroscience and environmental science. Their work includes substantial contributions to cognitive neuroscience, nature and landscape conservation, cellular and molecular neuroscience, electrical and electronic engineering, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's main topics of research cover neural dynamics and brain function, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, memory and neural mechanisms, fish ecology and management studies, advanced memory and neural computing, neural networks and applications, as well as zebrafish biomedical research applications.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Maler include André Longtin, Jean-Claude Béïque, Mauricio Girardi-Schappo, Avner Wallach, and Jiayun Xu.

Leonard Maler has published research extensively in a variety of scientific venues. The prominent journals and publication sources include:

  • Current Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • eLife
  • Current Opinion in Neurobiology
  • Journal of Experimental Biology

The following recent papers illustrate the breadth of Maler's research topics along with publication years and venues:

  • Neural Networks: How a Multi-Layer Network Learns to Disentangle Exogenous from Self-Generated Signals, 2020, Current Biology
  • Enhanced Signal Detection by Adaptive Decorrelation of Interspike Intervals, 2020, Neural Computation
  • Linking active sensing and spatial learning in weakly electric fish, 2021, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
  • Mixed selectivity coding of sensory and motor social signals in the thalamus of a weakly electric fish, 2021, Current Biology
  • Finding food in the dark: how trajectories of a gymnotiform fish change with spatial learning, 2022, Journal of Experimental Biology

Best Publications

  • Zebrin II: a polypeptide antigen expressed selectively by Purkinje cells reveals compartments in rat and fish cerebellum.

    Gino Brochu;Leonard Maler;Richard Hawkes

  • Immunohistochemical mapping of vitamin D-dependent calcium-binding protein in brain

    S S Jande;L Maler;D E Lawson

  • An atlas of the brain of the electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus.

    L. Maler;E. Sas;S. Johnston;W. Ellis

  • Negative Interspike Interval Correlations Increase the Neuronal Capacity for Encoding Time-Dependent Stimuli

    Maurice J. Chacron;André Longtin;Leonard Maler

  • Parallel Processing of Sensory Input by Bursts and Isolated Spikes

    Anne-Marie M. Oswald;Maurice J. Chacron;Brent Doiron;Joseph Bastian

  • Spike-frequency adaptation separates transient communication signals from background oscillations.

    Jan Benda;André Longtin;Len Maler

  • Peripheral organization and central projections of the electrosensory nerves in gymnotiform fish.

    Catherine E. Carr;Leonard Maler;Emilia Sas

  • The cytology of the posterior lateral line lobe of high-frequency weakly electric fish (Gymnotidae): dendritic differentiation and synaptic specificity in a simple cortex

    Leonard Maler;Emilia K. B. Sas;Joanne Rogers

  • Laminar organization of the afferent and efferent systems of the torus semicircularis of gymnotiform fish: morphological substrates for parallel processing in the electrosensory system.

    C. E. Carr;L. Maler;W. Heiligenberg;E. Sas

  • The posterior lateral line lobe of certain gymnotoid fish: Quantitative light microscopy

    Leonard Maler

  • Non-classical receptive field mediates switch in a sensory neuron's frequency tuning

    Maurice J. Chacron;Brent Doiron;Leonard Maler;André Longtin

  • Inhibitory feedback required for network oscillatory responses to communication but not prey stimuli

    Brent Doiron;Maurice J. Chacron;Leonard Maler;André Longtin

  • Neural architecture of the electrosensory lateral line lobe: adaptations for coincidence detection, a sensory searchlight and frequency-dependent adaptive filtering

    Neil J. Berman;Leonard Maler

  • Correlating gamma-aminobutyric acidergic circuits and sensory function in the electrosensory lateral line lobe of a gymnotiform fish.

    Leonard Maler;Enrico Mugnaini

  • Anatomical and functional organization of the prepacemaker nucleus in gymnotiform electric fish: the accommodation of two behaviors in one nucleus.

    M. Kawasaki;L. Maler;G. J. Rose;W. Heiligenberg

  • Evoked chirping in the weakly electric fish Apteronotus leptorhynchus: a quantitative biophysical analysis

    Günther K. H. Zupanc;Leonard Maler

  • Ghostbursting: a novel neuronal burst mechanism.

    Brent Doiron;Carlo R. Laing;André Longtin;Leonard Maler

  • TTX-sensitive dendritic sodium channels underlie oscillatory discharge in a vertebrate sensory neuron.

    RW Turner;L Maler;T Deerinck;SR Levinson

  • Plastic and nonplastic pyramidal cells perform unique roles in a network capable of adaptive redundancy reduction.

    Joseph Bastian;Maurice J Chacron;Leonard Maler

  • Inter-male aggressive signals in weakly electric fish are modulated by monoamines.

    Leonard Maler;William G. Ellis

  • Morphological and electrophysiological properties of a novel in vitro preparation: the electrosensory lateral line lobe brain slice.

    William B. Mathieson;Leonard Maler

  • Analysis of the fine structure of the dopaminergic nigrostriatal projection by electron microscopic autoradiography.

    T. Hattori;H.C. Fibiger;P.L. McGeer;L. Maler

Frequent Co-Authors

Maurice J. Chacron
Maurice J. Chacron McGill University
Brent Doiron
Brent Doiron University of Pittsburgh
Ray W. Turner
Ray W. Turner University of Calgary
Joseph Bastian
Joseph Bastian University of Oklahoma
Richard Hawkes
Richard Hawkes University of Calgary
Günther K.H. Zupanc
Günther K.H. Zupanc Northeastern University
Catherine E. Carr
Catherine E. Carr University of Maryland, College Park
Enrico Mugnaini
Enrico Mugnaini Northwestern University
Walter Wilczynski
Walter Wilczynski Georgia State University
Markus Schuelke
Markus Schuelke Charité - University Medicine Berlin

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