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| Ilana B WittenSummaryAffiliation: Stanford University Country: USA Publications
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Why seeing is believing: merging auditory and visual worldsIlana B Witten
Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Neuron 48:489-96. 2005..We consider candidate neural codes that would enable optimal integration and the implications of optimal integration for perception and plasticity...
A Hebbian learning rule mediates asymmetric plasticity in aligning sensory representationsIlana B Witten
Neurobiology Department, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
J Neurophysiol 100:1067-79. 2008..These same principles would apply not only to the maintenance of spatial registry across input channels, but also to the experience-dependent emergence of aligned representations in developing circuits...
Recombinase-driver rat lines: tools, techniques, and optogenetic application to dopamine-mediated reinforcementIlana B Witten
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Neuron 72:721-33. 2011..These studies complement existing targeting approaches by extending the generalizability of optogenetics to traditionally non-genetically-tractable but vital animal models...
A dominance hierarchy of auditory spatial cues in barn owlsIlana B Witten
Neurobiology Department, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e10396. 2010..Barn owls integrate spatial information across frequency channels to localize sounds in space...
Dynamic shifts in the owl's auditory space map predict moving sound locationIlana B Witten
Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Nat Neurosci 9:1439-45. 2006..This hypothesis is consistent with perceptions of stimulus motion in humans for many sensory parameters...
Cholinergic interneurons control local circuit activity and cocaine conditioningIlana B Witten
Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
Science 330:1677-81. 2010....
