Publications


2013

Ayaz, Saleem, Schölvinck, and Carandini, "Locomotion controls spatial integration in mouse visual cortex", Current Biology (2013).

Benucci, Saleem, and Carandini, "Adaptation maintains population homeostasis in primary visual cortex", Nature Neuroscience (2013).

Haider, Häusser, and Carandini, "Inhibition dominates sensory responses in the awake cortex", Nature (2013).

2012

Okun, Yger, Marguet, Gerard-Mercier, Benucci, Katzner, Busse, Carandini, and Harris, "Population rate dynamics and multineuron firing patterns in sensory cortex", J Neurosci (2012).

Sato, Nauhaus and Carandini, "Traveling waves in visual cortex", Neuron (2012).

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    Carandini, "From circuits to behavior: a bridge too far?", Nature Neurosci (2012). [PDF]

    Nauhaus, Busse, Ringach, and Carandini, "Robustness of traveling waves in ongoing activity of visual cortex", J Neurosci (2012).

    Carandini, "Area V1", Scholarpedia (2012).

    Atallah, Bruns, Carandini, and Scanziani, "Parvalbumin-expressing interneurons linearly transform cortical responses to visual stimuli", Neuron (2012). 

    Carandini and Heeger, "Normalization as a canonical neural computation", Nature Reviews Neurosci (2012). [PDF]

    2011

    Busse, Ayaz, Dhruv, Katzner, Saleem, Schölvinck, Zaharia, and Carandini, "The detection of visual contrast in the behaving mouse", J Neurosci (2011). [video] [PDF]

    Katzner, Busse, and Carandini, “GABAa inhibition controls response gain in visual cortex”, J Neurosci (2011). [PDF]

    2010

    Schulz and Carandini, “An uncorrelated state for the cortex?”, F1000 Biology Reports (2010). [PDF]

    2009

    Busse, Wade, and Carandini, "Representation of concurrent stimuli by population activity in visual cortex". Neuron (2009). [PDF]

    Benucci, Ringach, and Carandini, "Coding of stimulus sequences by population responses in visual cortex". Nature Neurosci (2009). [PDF]

    Katzner, Nauhaus, Benucci, Bonin, Ringach, and Carandini, "Local origin of field potentials in visual cortex". Neuron (2009). [PDF]

    Nauhaus, Busse, Carandini, and Ringach, "Stimulus contrast modulates functional connectivity in visual cortex". Nature Neurosci (2009). [PDF]

    2008

    Mante, Bonin, and Carandini, "Functional mechanisms shaping lateral geniculate responses to artificial and natural stimuli". Neuron (2008). [PDF]

    Nauhaus, A Benucci, M Carandini, and DL Ringach, "Neuronal selectivity and local map structure in visual cortex". Neuron (2008). [PDF]

    2007

    Carandini, Horton, and Sincich, "Thalamic filtering of retinal spike trains by postsynaptic summation". J of Vision (2007). [PDF]

    Benucci, Frazor, and Carandini, “Standing waves and traveling waves distinguish two circuits in visual cortex”. Neuron (2007). [PDF

    Frazor, Benucci, and Carandini, "Independent Encoding of Position and Orientation by Population Responses in Primary Visual Cortex", in Advances in Brain, Vision, and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 30-41, Springer (2007). [PDF]

    Durand, Freeman, and Carandini, “Temporal properties of surround suppression in cat primary visual cortex”. Visual Neurosci (2007). [PDF]

    Majaj, Carandini, and Movshon, “Motion integration by neurons in macaque MT is local, not global”. J Neurosci (2007). [PDF]

    Carandini, “Melting the iceberg: contrast invariance in visual cortex”. Neuron (2007).  [PDF]

    2006

    Bonin, Mante, and Carandini, “The statistical computation underlying contrast gain control”. J Neurosci 26:6346-6353 (2006). [PDF]

    Carandini, “What simple cells and complex cells compute”. J Physiol (2006). [PDF]

    Carandini, “Measuring the brain's assumptions”. Nature Neurosci (2006). [PDF]

    2005

    Bonin, Mante, and Carandini, “The suppressive field of neurons in lateral geniculate nucleus”, J Neurosci (2005). [PDF]

    Mante, Frazor, Bonin, Geisler, and Carandini, “Independence of luminance and contrast in natural scenes and in the early visual system”, Nature Neurosci (2005). [PDF]

    Carandini, Demb, Mante, Olshausen, Tolhurst, Dan, Gallant, and Rust “Do we know what the early visual system does?J Neurosci (2005). [PDF]

    Petrov, Carandini, and McKee, “Two distinct mechanisms of suppression in human vision”. J Neurosci (2005). [PDF]

    Gabernet, Jadhav, Feldman, Carandini, and Scanziani, “Somatosensory integration controlled by dynamic thalamocortical feed-forward inhibition”. Neuron (2005). [PDF]

    Mante and Carandini, “Mapping of stimulus energy in primary visual cortex”, J Neurophysiol (2005). [PDF]

    2004

    Carandini, "Amplification of trial-to-trial response variability by neurons in visual cortex" PLoS Biology (2004). [PDF

    Priebe, Mechler, Carandini, and Ferster, "The contribution of spike threshold to the dichotomy of cortical simple and complex cells", Nature Neurosci (2004). [PDF]

    Carandini and Sengpiel, “Contrast invariance of functional maps in cat primary visual cortex”, J of Vision (2004). [PDF]

    Carandini, “Receptive fields and suppressive fields in the early visual system”. In The Cognitive Neurosciences, 3d ed., MS Gazzaniga, ed., pp 313-326. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press (2004). [PDF

    Bonin, Mante, and Carandini, "Nonlinear processing in LGN neurons". In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16, S Thrun, L Saul, and B Schölkopf, eds., Cambridge, MA, MIT Press (2004). [PDF]

    2003

    Mante and Carandini, “Visual cortex: seeing motionCurr Biol (2003).  [PDF]

    2002

    Carandini, Heeger, and Senn, "A synaptic explanation of suppression in visual cortex", Neurosci (2002). [PDF][Code][Appendix].

    Freeman, Durand, Kiper and Carandini, "Suppression without inhibition in visual cortex", Neuron (2002). [PDF

    Hürlimann, Kiper, and Carandini, "Testing the Bayesian model of motion perception", Vision Research (2002). [PDF]

    Meier and Carandini, "Masking by fast gratings", J of Vision (2002). [PDF]

    Kiper and Carandini, "Neural basis of pattern vision", Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, London: MacMillan (2002). [PDF]

    2000

    Carandini and Ferster, "Membrane potential and firing rate in cat primary visual cortex", J
    Neurosci (2000). [PDF]

    Anderson, Carandini, and Ferster, “Orientation tuning of input conductance, excitation and inhibition in cat primary visual cortexJ Neurophysiol (2000). [PDF]

    Anderson, Lampl, Reichova, Carandini, and Ferster, "Stimulus dependence of two-state fluctuations of membrane potential in cat visual cortex", Nature Neurosci (2000). [PDF]

    Carandini, "Visual cortex: fatigue and adaptation", Curr Biol (2000). [PDF]

    1999

    Carandini, Heeger, and Movshon, "Linearity and gain control in V1 simple cells", in PS Ulinski, EG Jones and A Peters (Eds.), Cerebral Cortex. Volume 13: Models of cortical circuits, New York: Plenum (1999). [PDF]

    1998

    Carandini, Movshon, and Ferster, "Pattern adaptation and cross-orientation interactions in theprimary visual cortex", Neuropharmacology (1998). [PDF]

    1997

    Carandini, Heeger, and Movshon, "Linearity and normalization in simple cells of the macaque primary visual cortex", J Neurosci (1997). [PDF]

    Carandini and Ringach, "Predictions of a recurrent model of orientation selectivity", Vision
    Research (1997).[code] [PDF]

    Carandini, Barlow, Poirson, O'Keefe, and Movshon, "Adaptation to contingencies in macaque primary visual cortex", Phil Trans R Soc London, B (1997). [PDF]

    Carandini and Ferster, "A tonic hyperpolarization underlying contrast adaptation in the visual cortex", Science (1997). [PDF]

    1996

    Carandini, Mechler, Leonard, and Movshon, "Spike train encoding by regular-spiking cells of the visual cortex", J Neurophysiol (1996). [PDF]

    Carandini "Linearity, gain control, and spike encoding in the primary visual cortex", PhD Thesis, New YorkUniversity (1996). [PDF]

    1994

    Carandini and Heeger, "Summation and division by neurons in visual cortex", Science (1994). [PDF]

    Gegenfurtner, Kiper, Beusmans, Carandini, Zaidi, and Movshon, "Chromatic properties of neurons in macaque MT", Visual Neurosci (1994). [PDF]