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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Marc A. Sommer is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on Neuroscience, with an emphasis on several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics, notably Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Studies, Neural dynamics and brain function, Visual perception and processing mechanisms, EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces, Photoreceptor and optogenetics research, Functional Brain Connectivity Studies, and Neuroscience and Neural Engineering.

Among their recent papers are:

  • An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics, 2020, Neuron
  • Adeno-Associated Virus Capsid-Promoter Interactions in the Brain Translate from Rat to the Nonhuman Primate, 2020, Human Gene Therapy
  • Using rAAV2-retro in rhesus macaques: Promise and caveats for circuit manipulation, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience Methods
  • Compensating for a shifting world: evolving reference frames of visual and auditory signals across three multimodal brain areas, 2021, Journal of Neurophysiology
  • Isolating two sources of variability of subcortical stimulation to quantify fluctuations of corticospinal tract excitability, 2022, Clinical Neurophysiology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Angel V. Peterchev
  • Martin O. Bohlen
  • Warren M. Grill
  • Moritz Dannhauer
  • Michele A. Basso

Marc A. Sommer has published extensively in venues such as Brain Stimulation, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Human Gene Therapy, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, and Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist has received recognition as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Corollary discharge across the animal kingdom

    Trinity B. Crapse;Marc A. Sommer

  • A Pathway in Primate Brain for Internal Monitoring of Movements

    Marc A. Sommer;Robert H. Wurtz

  • Influence of the thalamus on spatial visual processing in frontal cortex

    Marc A. Sommer;Robert H. Wurtz

  • Brain Circuits for the Internal Monitoring of Movements

    Marc A. Sommer;Robert H. Wurtz

  • Composition and topographic organization of signals sent from the frontal eye field to the superior colliculus.

    Marc A. Sommer;Robert H. Wurtz

  • What the brain stem tells the frontal cortex. I. Oculomotor signals sent from superior colliculus to frontal eye field via mediodorsal thalamus.

    Marc A. Sommer;Robert H. Wurtz

  • Eye fields in the frontal lobes of primates

    Edward J Tehovnik;Marc A Sommer;I-Han Chou;Warren M Slocum

  • What the Brain Stem Tells the Frontal Cortex. II. Role of the SC-MD-FEF Pathway in Corollary Discharge

    Marc A. Sommer;Robert H. Wurtz

  • The role of the thalamus in motor control.

    Marc A Sommer

  • Reversible inactivation of macaque frontal eye field.

    Marc A. Sommer;Edward J. Tehovnik

  • Frontal eye field sends delay activity related to movement, memory, and vision to the superior colliculus.

    Marc A. Sommer;Robert H. Wurtz

  • Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiomyopathy

    WJ Hrushesky;DJ Fader;JS Berestka;M Sommer

  • Effective spread and timecourse of neural inactivation caused by lidocaine injection in monkey cerebral cortex.

    Edward J Tehovnik;Marc A Sommer

  • Simultaneous transcranial magnetic stimulation and single-neuron recording in alert non-human primates

    Jerel K. Mueller;Erinn M. Grigsby;Vincent Prevosto;Frank W. Petraglia

  • Neuronal correlates of metacognition in primate frontal cortex

    Paul G. Middlebrooks;Marc A. Sommer

  • Advances in understanding mechanisms of thalamic relays in cognition and behavior.

    Anna S. Mitchell;S. Murray Sherman;Marc A. Sommer;Robert G. Mair

  • Signal transformations from cerebral cortex to superior colliculus for the generation of saccades.

    Robert H Wurtz;Marc A Sommer;Martin Paré;Stefano Ferraina

  • Corollary discharge circuits in the primate brain

    Trinity B Crapse;Marc A Sommer

  • Spatial and Temporal Scales of Neuronal Correlation in Visual Area V4

    Matthew A. Smith;Marc A. Sommer;Marc A. Sommer

  • Frontal eye field neurons orthodromically activated from the superior colliculus.

    Marc A. Sommer;Robert H. Wurtz

  • Subjective Duration as a Signature of Coding Efficiency : Emerging Links Among Stimulus Repetition, Predictive Coding, and Cortical GABA Levels

    William J. Matthews;Devin B. Terhune;Hedderik van Rijn;David M. Eagleman

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert H. Wurtz
Robert H. Wurtz National Institutes of Health
Angel V. Peterchev
Angel V. Peterchev Duke University
Michele A. Basso
Michele A. Basso University of California, Los Angeles
Tobias Egner
Tobias Egner Duke University
Roberto Cabeza
Roberto Cabeza Duke University
David M. Eagleman
David M. Eagleman Stanford University
Michael L. Platt
Michael L. Platt University of Pennsylvania
Devin Blair Terhune
Devin Blair Terhune Goldsmiths University of London
Robert P. Vertes
Robert P. Vertes Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences

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