Clarissa Whitmire, a PhD candidate in the Georgia Tech/Emory Biomedical Engineering program, has been awarded the 2016 Stuart Zola Graduate Fellowship in Neuroscience. This fellowship, administered by the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, was founded in honor of Dr Stuart Zola, previous director of the Yerkes National Primate Center from … More Clarissa Whitmire Awarded the 2016 Stuart Zola Graduate Fellowship in Neuroscience
Clarissa Whitmire Awarded the 2016 Stuart Zola Graduate Fellowship in Neuroscience
CEISMC Math Outreach Event
In conjunction with CEISMC Math and Science Partnership (MSP) the Stanley lab hosted several groups of middle school and high school teachers for a hands on math and science demonstration. The goal of the MSP event was to tie math to real world applications, giving the teachers tools they need … More CEISMC Math Outreach Event
GIFT Program participant: Daniel Suarez
Daniel Suarez, a recent graduate of Georgia State who will be starting his career as a middle school teacher this fall, joined the Stanley lab for three weeks this summer. While here he worked to develop a neuroscience lesson geared towards the middle school age range that is both interactive and informative. … More GIFT Program participant: Daniel Suarez
New publication – Information Coding through Adaptive Gating of Synchronized Thalamic Bursting
It has been posited that the regulation of burst/tonic firing in the thalamus could function as a mechanism for controlling not only how much but what kind of information is conveyed to downstream cortical targets. Yet how this gating mechanism is adaptively modulated on fast timescales by ongoing sensory inputs … More New publication – Information Coding through Adaptive Gating of Synchronized Thalamic Bursting
New Publication – Support for the slip hypothesis from whisker-related tactile perception of rats in a noisy environment
Rodents use active whisker movements to explore their environment. The “slip hypothesis” of whisker-related tactile perception entails that short-lived kinematic events (abrupt whisker movements, called “slips”, due to bioelastic whisker properties that occur during active touch of textures) carry the decisive texture information. Supporting this hypothesis, previous studies have shown … More New Publication – Support for the slip hypothesis from whisker-related tactile perception of rats in a noisy environment
