Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Meliora Hall
University of Rochester
, Rochester, NY 14627.
Phone: (585) 275 0760-- Fax: (585) 442 9216

alex@bcs.rochester.edu

Center for Computation and the Brain

Cosyne '12   


 

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory

Alexandre Pouget

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If you're interested in our research but would like to be spared the mathematical details, click here to read an excellent summary of our recent work written by Yohannes Edemariam in 2007 for the magazine Seed.

 

 

NEWS:

Several postdoc positions are available at the university of Geneva, Switzerland, in Sept 2011, where I will be located next year. Click here for more details.


 


 

 

 

 

Selected Publications 

(All publications click here)                     

Please note that multiple distribution, publication or commercial usage of this copyrighted papers would require submission of a permission request addressed to the journal in which the paper appeared.

 

  • Neural correlates of reliability-based cue weighting during multisensory integration.

    Fetsch, C.R., Pouget, A., DeAngelis, A.G.C. and Angelaki, D.E.

    Nature Neuroscience. In press. PDF.

     

  • Marginalization in neural circuits with divisive normalization.

    Beck, J., Latham, P.E. and Pouget, A.

    Journal of Neuroscience. 31(43):15310 –15319. 2011.

    PDF

     

  • Bayesian sampling in visual perception
    Moreno-Bote, R., Knill, D.C., and Pouget, A.

    PNAS. 108(30):12491-6. 2011.

    PDF including suppl info.

     

  • Behavioral and neural basis of near optimal visual search.
    Ma, W.J., Navalpakkam, V., Beck, J.M. , van den Berg, R., Pouget, A.

    Nature Neuroscience. 14(6):783-90. 2011.

    PDF. Suppl info.

     

  • Perceptual learning as improved probabilistic inference in early sensory areas
    Bejjanki, V.R., Beck, J.M. , Lu, Z.L. , Pouget, A.

    Nature Neuroscience. 14(5):642-8. 2011. PDF. Suppl info

  • Variance as a signature of neural computations during decision making.

    Churchland, A.K., Kiani, R., Chaudhuri, R., Wang, X.J., Pouget, A., and Shadlen, M.N.

    Neuron. 69(4):818-31. 2011. PDF

     

  • Improved probabilistic inference as a general learning mechanism with action video games.

    Green, C.S., Pouget, A. and Bavelier, D.

    Current Biology.  2010 Sep 14;20(17):1573-9. PDF.

    Suppl info

    BBC podcast. Summaries on The economist and BBC

      

  • Bayesian inference with probabilistic population codes.
    Ma, W.J., Beck, J., Latham, P. and Pouget, A.
    Nature Neuroscience. 
    9(11), 1432-1438. 2006. PDF Suppl Note N&V by Salinas
  • Neural correlations, population coding and computation.
    Averbeck, B., Latham, P.E., Pouget, A.
    Nature Review Neuroscience. 7, 358-366. 2006.  PDF

 

  •  Reference frames for representing the location of visual and tactile stimuli in

    the parietal cortex.
    Avilllac, M., Denève, S., Olivier, E., Pouget, A. and Duhamel, J.R.
    Nature Neuroscience. 8(7). 941-949. 2005.  PDF

 

  • Tuning curve sharpening for orientation selectivity: coding efficiency and the impact of correlations   
    Series, P., Latham, P. and Pouget, A.
    Nature Neuroscience. 7(10):1129-1135. 2004. PDF

 

  • Basis functions for object-centered representations.
    Deneve, S. and Pouget, A.
    Neuron 37:347-359. 2003. PDF

 

  • A Computational Perspective on the Neural Basis of Multisensory Spatial Representations.
    Pouget, A., Deneve, S and Duhamel, J.R.
    Nature Review Neuroscience. 3:741-747. 2002. PDF

 

  • Efficient computation and cue integration with noisy population codes.

    Deneve, S., Latham, P.E. and Pouget, A.

    Nature Neuroscience. 4(8):826-831. 2001. PDF

    Revised appendix with correct parameters

     

  • Computational approaches to sensorimotor transformations.

    Pouget, A., and Snyder, L.

    Nature Neuroscience. 3:1192-1198. 2000. PDF

     

  • Information processing with population codes.

    Pouget, A, Zemel, R.S., and Dayan, P.

    Nature Review Neuroscience. 1(2):125-132. 2000. PDF

     

  • Reading population codes: a neural implementation of ideal observers.
    Deneve, S., Latham, P.E. and Pouget, A.
    Nature Neuroscience. 2(8):740-745. 1999. PDF