Jean-Marc Fellous
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
Neuroscience:
Experimental: Neuromodulation and the role of 'noise' in neural computations.Communication between large networks of neurons. Spike timing and reliability. Brain-machine interfaces.
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.
Theoretical: Computational Neuroscience. Working (prefrontal cortex) and short term (hippocampus) memory. Cortical design principles and reverberation. Population codes. 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 in rats.
Computer Science:
Distributed Artificial Intelligence - Multi agent architectures - Parallel, multi-processors MIMD machines.