NPB Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior |
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| Kenneth H. Britten |
| Professor Center for Neuroscience 1544 Newton Court 530.754.5080 khbritten (at) ucdavis (dot) edu |
| Degrees: B.S., Biology, California Institute of Technology, 1980 Ph.D., Neurobiology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1987 |
| Teaching Interests: Neurobiology |
| Research Interests: Relationship between physiological events in visual cortex and visual perception. Information processing in the extrastriate visual cortex of primates. Motion system of the visual cortex and the transformation of motion information. |
| Selected Publications: Britten, K.H.. 1998. Clustering of response selectivity in the medial superior temporal area of extrastrieate cortex in the macque monkey. Visual Neuroscience, In Press. Britten, K.H. and R.J.A. van Wezel. 1998. Electrical microstimulation of cortical area MST biases heading perception in monkeys. Nature Neuroscience, In Press. Britten, K.H.. 1996. Attention is everywhere. Nature, (News and Views), 382(6591):497-498. Shadlen, Michael N., K.H. Britten, W.T. Newsome and J.A. Movshon. 1996. A computational analysis of the relationship between neuronal and behavioral responses to visual motion. Journal of Neuroscience 16(4):1486-1510. Britten, K.H., W.T. Newsome, M.N. Shadlen, S. Celebrini and J.A. Movshon. 1996. A relationship between behavioral choice and the visual responses of neurons in macaque MT. Visual Neuroscience, 13(1):87-100. Bair, W., C. Koch, W.T. Newsome and K.H. Britten. 1994. Power spectrum analysis of bursting cells in area MT in the behaving monkey. Journal of Neuroscience, 14(5):2870-2892. Zohary E., S. Celebrini, K.H. Britten and W.T. Newsome. 1994. Neuronal plasticity that underlies improvement in perceptual performance. Science, 263:1289-1292. Britten K.H., M. Shadlen, W.T. Newsome and J.A. Movshon. 1993. The responses of MT neurons to variable strength stochastic motion stimuli. Visual Neuroscience, 10:1157-1169. |
| Affiliation: Center for Neuroscience |