• Associate Professor in Psychology, member of the Neuroscience, Applied Mathematics, and Cognitive Science programs, member of the division of Neural Systems Memory and Aging and the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute. Representative of the Society for Neuroscience (Tucson Chapter).

• Mailing Address (for urgent matters, please use the lab surface-mailing address):
  

  Department of Psychology
  University of Arizona
  Psychology Building, 312
  PO Box 210068
  Tucson, AZ 85721-0068
  Phone: (520) 626-2617 (office)
  Phone:(520) 626-9632 (lab)   
  Fax: (520) 626-2618

      email: fellous at email.arizona.edu

• Short C.V. ... Long C.V.
  
• Research Interests

Neuroscience:
Experimental: Neuromodulation, memory and emotion. Role of 'noise' in neural computations.Communication between large networks of neurons. Spike timing and reliability.
Rat hippocampus in vitro neurophysiology: oscillations, cholinergic neuromodulation of intrinsic and network properties.
Rat prefrontal cortex in vitro neurophysiology: Spike timing and reliability. Roles of dopamine.
Rat hippocampus and Ventral Tegmental Area in vivo: Extracellular multi unit (tetrode) recordings in the behaving rat: modulation of place field properties by neuromodulators. Influence of aging on dopamine centers. Role of VTA in long term stress and memory consolidation.
Theoretical: Computational Neuroscience. Working (prefrontal cortex) and short term (hippocampus) memory. Stochastic synaptic transmission. Cortical design principles and reverberation. Computational roles of neuromodulation. Neural substrates of emotion.
Psychology:
Face perception: identifying and extracting facial information such as sex, emotion or age from static pictures. Computer based face recognition. Use of facial metric information for face perception.
Memory reconsodilation.
Computer Science:
Distributed Artificial Intelligence - Multi agent architectures - Parallel, multi-processors MIMD machines.

• Web Resources
• The Emotion Home Page
• Computational and Experimental Neuroscience Laboratory
  Note: The laboratory is currently accepting independent study students, with possible additional summer research internships.
• Society for Neuroscience, Tucson Chapter and Senior Neuroscience Reserach Fellow program
  
• Teaching
• Psych 302: Introduction to Biopsychology
• Psych 4/596L: Introduction to Neural Data Analyses
• Psych 4/503c: Introduction to Computational Neuroscience.
• Psych 506A: Neural encoding, memory and computation.
• co-teaching (A. Lewis and I. Fasel): ECE 596c: Cognitive Robotics
• co-organizing (A. Lewis and K. Lin): Theoretical Neuroscience Journal Club
  
• Publications
  
  

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