Kenneth D Harris
Kenneth D Harris | |
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| Nationality | British, American |
| Awards | Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator 2011, European Research Council Advanced Investigator 2014, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Neuroscience |
| Institutions | University College London (professor) |
Kenneth D. Harris is a neuroscientist at University College London. He is most known for his contributions to the understanding of the neural code used by vast populations of neurons.[1][2][3][4][5] Among his discoveries is the finding that populations in sensory areas of the brain also code for body movements.[6] Harris has contributed to the development of silicon probes[7] and most recently of Neuropixels probes.[8] With these probes, he and his team discovered that engagement in a task activates neurons throughout the brain.[9]
Harris obtained his PhD from UCL in the laboratory of Michael Recce, and did his postdoctoral studies at Rutgers University in the laboratory of Gyorgy Buzsaki.[10] He is a Professor of Quantitative Neuroscience[11] at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, where he co-directs the Cortical Processing Laboratory[12] with Matteo Carandini. Harris is a founding member of the International Brain Laboratory.
References
[edit]- ^ Harris, Kenneth D.; Csicsvari, Jozsef; Hirase, Hajime; Dragoi, George; Buzsáki, György (2003-07-31). "Organization of cell assemblies in the hippocampus". Nature. 424 (6948): 552–556. Bibcode:2003Natur.424..552H. doi:10.1038/nature01834. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 12891358. S2CID 4420968.
- ^ Luczak, Artur; Barthó, Peter; Marguet, Stephan L.; Buzsáki, György; Harris, Kenneth D. (2007-01-02). "Sequential structure of neocortical spontaneous activity in vivo". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104 (1): 347–352. Bibcode:2007PNAS..104..347L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0605643104. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1765463. PMID 17185420.
- ^ Renart, Alfonso; de la Rocha, Jaime; Bartho, Peter; Hollender, Liad; Parga, Néstor; Reyes, Alex; Harris, Kenneth D. (2010-01-29). "The asynchronous state in cortical circuits". Science. 327 (5965): 587–590. Bibcode:2010Sci...327..587R. doi:10.1126/science.1179850. ISSN 1095-9203. PMC 2861483. PMID 20110507.
- ^ Stringer, Carsen; Pachitariu, Marius; Steinmetz, Nicholas; Carandini, Matteo; Harris, Kenneth D. (2019). "High-dimensional geometry of population responses in visual cortex". Nature. 571 (7765): 361–365. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1346-5. ISSN 1476-4687. PMC 6642054. PMID 31243367. Q72587818
- ^ Stringer, Carsen; Pachitariu, Marius; Steinmetz, Nicholas; Reddy, Charu Bai; Carandini, Matteo; Harris, Kenneth D. (2019). "Spontaneous behaviors drive multidimensional, brainwide activity". Science. 364 (6437): 255. Bibcode:2019Sci...364..255S. doi:10.1126/science.aav7893. ISSN 1095-9203. PMC 6525101. PMID 31000656.
- ^ Cepelewicz, Jordana. "'Noise' in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
- ^ "$5M for international neuroscience 'dream team'". University of Michigan News. 2015-11-03. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ HHMI. "New Silicon Probes Record Activity of Hundreds of Neurons Simultaneously". HHMI.org. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ Abbott, Alison (2020-08-11). "Inside the mind of an animal". Nature. 584 (7820): 182–185. Bibcode:2020Natur.584..182A. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-02337-x. PMID 32782378.
- ^ "Neurotree - Kenneth D. Harris Family Tree". neurotree.org. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ UCL (2019-02-08). "harris-kenneth". UCL Division of Biosciences. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
- ^ UCL. "UCL - London's Global University". Cortexlab. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
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