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8911
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Overview

Richard T. Born is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. The research focuses primarily on the fields of Neuroscience and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a notable emphasis on Cognitive Neuroscience and Molecular Biology within these broader areas.

Their work covers several subfields including Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular Biology, Political Science and International Relations, Cell Biology, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. The main topics explored in their research are neural dynamics and brain function, visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural and behavioral psychology studies, cellular transport and secretion, lipid membrane structure and behavior, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and decision-making and behavioral economics.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Till S. Hartmann, Zhanqi Zhang, Margaret S. Livingstone, Carlos R. Ponce, and Chao Tan. These collaborations contribute to a range of research articles spanning various neuroscience-related topics.

Their recent papers include the following:

  • "Munc13 supports fusogenicity of non-docked vesicles at synapses with disrupted active zones," 2022, eLife
  • "Weak evidence for neural correlates of task-switching in macaque V1," 2023, Journal of Neurophysiology
  • "Illusions, Delusions, and Your Backwards Bayesian Brain: A Biased Visual Perspective," 2020, Brain Behavior and Evolution
  • "Stop Fooling Yourself! (Diagnosing and Treating Confirmation Bias)," 2024, eNeuro
  • "Brain Feature Maps Reveal Progressive Animal-Feature Representations in the Ventral Stream," 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Publication venues frequently associated with this researcher include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, Journal of Neurophysiology, eNeuro, and Brain Behavior and Evolution. The most articles appear in bioRxiv, followed by one paper each in the other journals.

Best Publications

  • Functional analysis of human MT and related visual cortical areas using magnetic resonance imaging

    R. B. H. Tootell;J. B. Reppas;K. K. Kwong;R. Malach

  • Structure and Function of Visual Area MT

    Richard T. Born;David C. Bradley

  • Temporal dynamics of a neural solution to the aperture problem in visual area MT of macaque brain

    Christopher C. Pack;Richard T. Born

  • Segregation of global and local motion processing in primate middle temporal visual area

    Richard T. Born;Roger B. H. Tootell

  • Comparison of fiber tracts derived from in-vivo DTI tractography with 3D histological neural tract tracer reconstruction on a macaque brain.

    Julien Dauguet;Sharon Peled;Vladimir Berezovskii;Thierry Delzescaux

  • How Is a Sensory Map Read Out? Effects of Microstimulation in Visual Area MT on Saccades and Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements

    Jennifer M. Groh;Richard T. Born;William T. Newsome

  • Segregation of global and local motion processing in primate middle temporal visual area

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  • Contrast Dependence of Suppressive Influences in Cortical Area MT of Alert Macaque

    Christopher C. Pack;J. Nicholas Hunter;Richard T. Born

  • Corticocortical Feedback Contributes to Surround Suppression in V1 of the Alert Primate

    Jonathan J. Nassi;Stephen G. Lomber;Richard T. Born

  • Segregation of Object and Background Motion in Visual Area MT: Effects of Microstimulation on Eye Movements

    R.T. Born;J.M. Groh;R. Zhao;R. Zhao;S.J. Lukasewycz

  • End-Stopping and the Aperture Problem: Two-Dimensional Motion Signals in Macaque V1

    Christopher C Pack;Margaret S Livingstone;Kevin R Duffy;Richard T Born

  • Neuroanatomy goes viral

    Jonathan J. Nassi;Constance L. Cepko;Richard T. Born;Kevin T. Beier

  • Center-Surround Interactions in the Middle Temporal Visual Area of the Owl Monkey

    Richard T. Born

  • Dynamic properties of neurons in cortical area MT in alert and anaesthetized macaque monkeys

    Christopher C. Pack;Vladimir K. Berezovskii;Richard T. Born

  • Gene Transfer with AAV9-PHP.B Rescues Hearing in a Mouse Model of Usher Syndrome 3A and Transduces Hair Cells in a Non-human Primate.

    Bence György;Elise J. Meijer;Maryna V. Ivanchenko;Kelly Tenneson

  • Integration of Contour and Terminator Signals in Visual Area MT of Alert Macaque

    Christopher C. Pack;Andrew J. Gartland;Richard T. Born

  • Two-Dimensional Substructure of MT Receptive Fields

    Margaret S Livingstone;Christopher C Pack;Richard T Born

  • Integrating motion and depth via parallel pathways.

    Carlos R Ponce;Stephen G Lomber;Richard T Born

  • Disparity channels in early vision.

    Anna W. Roe;Andrew J. Parker;Richard T. Born;Gregory C. DeAngelis

  • Single-unit and 2-deoxyglucose studies of side inhibition in macaque striate cortex.

    Richard T. Born;Roger B. H. Tootell

  • Spatiotemporal Structure of Nonlinear Subunits in Macaque Visual Cortex

    Christopher C. Pack;Bevil R. Conway;Richard T. Born;Margaret S. Livingstone

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher C. Pack
Christopher C. Pack McGill University
Roger B. H. Tootell
Roger B. H. Tootell Harvard University
Margaret S. Livingstone
Margaret S. Livingstone Harvard University
Stephen G. Lomber
Stephen G. Lomber McGill University
Constance L. Cepko
Constance L. Cepko Harvard University
Gabriel Kreiman
Gabriel Kreiman Harvard University
Gregory C. DeAngelis
Gregory C. DeAngelis University of Rochester
Anna W. Roe
Anna W. Roe New York University
Frank Bremmer
Frank Bremmer Philipp University of Marburg
John W. Belliveau
John W. Belliveau Harvard University

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