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Brian Wright
Sloan-Swartz Center
UCSF, 513 Parnassus Ave., HSW 806
San Francisco, CA 94143-0444
e-mail: bdwright@phy.ucsf.edu
My research:
Much of my work focusses on two central questions of neuroscience: to
what features of natural stimuli do neurons respond, and how are these
features encoded by neural spike trains?
I have been addressing these questions by recording in auditory sensory
areas of songbirds in the lab of Allison Doupe and developing novel methods
for learning how individual neurons and neuronal populations encode naturalistic
stimuli.
Recently, I also have been studying the neural basis of song learning
in zebra finches, in particular the role that output from a specialized
basal ganglia circuit plays in that process. Current research has involved
characterizing the relationship between vocal motor and neural variability
in this output and how this variability might be used during song learning.
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