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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For his innovative experimental and computational studies to understand human perception and memory.

Overview

Ueli Rutishauser is affiliated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in the United States and has conducted extensive research in neuroscience with a focus on human memory and brain function. Their research work spans cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, social psychology, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The scientist's recent publications highlight several notable studies including:

  • Flexible recruitment of memory-based choice representations by the human medial frontal cortex, 2020, Science
  • Neurons detect cognitive boundaries to structure episodic memories in humans, 2022, Nature Neuroscience
  • The geometry of domain-general performance monitoring in the human medial frontal cortex, 2022, Science
  • Distinct roles of dorsal and ventral subthalamic neurons in action selection and cancellation, 2021, Neuron
  • The Architecture of Human Memory: Insights from Human Single-Neuron Recordings, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors include Adam N. Mamelak, Taufik A. Valiante, Chrystal M. Reed, Clayton P. Mosher, and Jeffrey M. Chung.

The scientist has contributed numerous articles to several publication venues with a strong presence in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience, Scientific Data, and Cell Reports.

Main research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
  • Face Recognition and Perception

Recognition for their contributions includes the Troland Research Award from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2014, awarded for innovative experimental and computational studies aimed at understanding human perception and memory.

Best Publications

  • Is bottom-up attention useful for object recognition?

    U. Rutishauser;D. Walther;C. Koch;P. Perona

  • Human memory strength is predicted by theta-frequency phase-locking of single neurons

    Ueli Rutishauser;Ian B. Ross;Adam N. Mamelak;Adam N. Mamelak;Erin M. Schuman;Erin M. Schuman

  • Online detection and sorting of extracellularly recorded action potentials in human medial temporal lobe recordings, in vivo☆

    Ueli Rutishauser;Erin M. Schuman;Adam N. Mamelak;Adam N. Mamelak

  • Task-demands can immediately reverse the effects of sensory-driven saliency in complex visual stimuli

    Wolfgang Einhäuser;Wolfgang Einhäuser;Ueli Rutishauser;Christof Koch

  • Single-Trial Learning of Novel Stimuli by Individual Neurons of the Human Hippocampus-Amygdala Complex

    Ueli Rutishauser;Adam N. Mamelak;Adam N. Mamelak;Erin M. Schuman

  • Selective visual attention enables learning and recognition of multiple objects in cluttered scenes

    Dirk Walther;Ueli Rutishauser;Christof Koch;Pietro Perona

  • Persistently active neurons in human medial frontal and medial temporal lobe support working memory.

    Jan Kamiński;Shannon Sullivan;Jeffrey M Chung;Ian B Ross

  • Synthesizing cognition in neuromorphic electronic systems

    Emre Neftci;Jonathan Binas;Ueli Rutishauser;Elisabetta Chicca

  • Neurons in the human amygdala selective for perceived emotion

    Shuo Wang;Oana Tudusciuc;Adam N. Mamelak;Ian B. Ross

  • Neurons detect cognitive boundaries to structure episodic memories in humans

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  • The human amygdala parametrically encodes the intensity of specific facial emotions and their categorical ambiguity.

    Shuo Wang;Rongjun Yu;Rongjun Yu;J. Michael Tyszka;Shanshan Zhen

  • Representation of retrieval confidence by single neurons in the human medial temporal lobe

    Ueli Rutishauser;Shengxuan Ye;Matthieu Koroma;Oana Tudusciuc

  • Pupil size signals novelty and predicts later retrieval success for declarative memories of natural scenes

    Marnix Naber;Stefan Frässle;Ueli Rutishauser;Ueli Rutishauser;Wolfgang Einhäuser;Wolfgang Einhäuser

  • Flexible recruitment of memory-based choice representations by the human medial frontal cortex

    Juri Minxha;Juri Minxha;Juri Minxha;Ralph Adolphs;Stefano Fusi;Adam N. Mamelak

  • Single-unit responses selective for whole faces in the human amygdala.

    Ueli Rutishauser;Ueli Rutishauser;Oana Tudusciuc;Dirk Neumann;Adam N. Mamelak

  • The primate amygdala in social perception - insights from electrophysiological recordings and stimulation

    Ueli Rutishauser;Adam N. Mamelak;Ralph Adolphs

  • Activity of human hippocampal and amygdala neurons during retrieval of declarative memories

    Ueli Rutishauser;Erin M. Schuman;Adam N. Mamelak

  • Human Episodic Memory Retrieval Is Accompanied by a Neural Contiguity Effect.

    Sarah Folkerts;Ueli Rutishauser;Marc W. Howard

  • Probabilistic modeling of eye movement data during conjunction search via feature-based attention.

    Ueli Rutishauser;Christof Koch

  • Single-Neuron Correlates of Error Monitoring and Post-Error Adjustments in Human Medial Frontal Cortex.

    Zhongzheng Fu;Zhongzheng Fu;Daw-An J. Wu;Ian Ross;Jeffrey M. Chung

  • On the usefulness of attention for object recognition

    Dirk Walther;Ueli Rutishauser;Christof Koch;Pietro Perona

Frequent Co-Authors

Ralph Adolphs
Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology
Christof Koch
Christof Koch Allen Institute for Brain Science
Erin M. Schuman
Erin M. Schuman Max Planck Society
Tobi Delbruck
Tobi Delbruck ETH Zurich
Gabriel Kreiman
Gabriel Kreiman Harvard University
Suneil K. Kalia
Suneil K. Kalia University of Toronto
Marc W. Howard
Marc W. Howard Boston University
Giacomo Indiveri
Giacomo Indiveri University of Zurich

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