Sensory Systems

A number of our members carry out research aimed at elucidating the principles of neural coding using the senses. This involves understanding the interface between physical stimuli (sound, images, heat, odours etc…) and the neurons in our peripheral and early central nervous systems.

Michael Jonz

Transduction of sensory stimuli and synaptic transmission. Patch-clamp recording of ion channel activity in oxygen-sensitive chemoreceptors, and retinal neurons.

John Lewis

population coding, electric fish, leech, dynamic clamp in sensory systems, linking sensory dynamics to behavior.

André Longtin

modeling neural activity in sensory systems, and the role of feedback, oscillations, noise and plasticity in neural coding. Electrosensory systems, thermosensory systems, auditory systems.

Len Maler

electrosensory processing and parallels with vision, role of feedback in sensory processing

Cathy Morris

neurotrauma at the single cell level, mechanoreceptors, cell volume regulation, computational modeling

Richard Naud

neural coding, neural networks, electrophysiological cell types, neural computation, dendritic computation and learning

Georg Northoff

resting-state-stimulus interactions, default mode network and changes in psychiatric illness

Armen Saghatelyan

olfactory processing, neural development

Jean-Philippe Thivierge

functional networks, connectomics, multi-electrode arrays