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B. Scott Jackson bsj22 @ cornell.edu W260 Mudd Hall      607-254-4384   [edit] Post-Doc associated with: Carl D. Hopkins Department: Neurobiology and Behavior Field: Neurobiology and Behavior Keywords: Computational Neuroscience (13), Electroreception (3), Fish (12), Mathematical Modeling (14), Neuroethology (24), Systems Neuroscience (25) My research interests primarily deal with general principles of neural coding and processing in spiking neurons of sensory systems, in particular issues related to the potential for "temporal", as opposed to "rate", coding and processing schemes. Secondarily, I am interested in the statistical structure of neural spike trains, and deterministic explanations for this structure. I am currently studying the neural pathway that processes electrical communication signals in weakly electric fish from Africa, which must detect differences in the waveforms of very short (< 1 ms) electrical pulses. I hope that the general strategies used by this relatively simple and specialized neural system will prove useful in suggesting and guiding research on other more complex sensory systems, such as the mammalian auditory system.

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