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Michael Metzen
Jun 28, 20231 min read
feedback and response heterogeneity
Interested in how feedback impacts on response heterogeneity? Check out our latest work published in iScience: Descending pathways...
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Michael Metzen
Mar 10, 20211 min read
Our 1st paper using a Neuropixels probe is out
Population coding of natural electrosensory stimuli by midbrain neurons https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2021/03/08/JNEUROSCI.2232...
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Michael Metzen
Jan 20, 20201 min read
New chirp paper accepted for publication
Our latest paper on invariant encoding and perception of chirps with different amplitude and duration has been accepted for publication...
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Michael Metzen
Nov 14, 20191 min read
Chapter in Springer Handbook for Auditoy Research
Check out the newly released SHAR: Electroreception: Fundamental Insights from Comparative Approaches. https://www.springer.com/us/book/9...
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Michael Metzen
Nov 5, 20191 min read
Sensory Adaptation
Our study on sensory adaptation in Apteronotus is online @sciences advances: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/10/eaax2211/tab-pdf
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Michael Metzen
Aug 21, 20191 min read
New Mini-Review on Chirping
My mini-review on electro-communication is out: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2019.00039/full?&utm_source=Email_to_a...
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Michael Metzen
Jun 25, 20191 min read
NSB Lecture @ MBL
Lecturing in the NSB course at 10am: "Sensory Adaptation in the electrosensory system". Topics include information theory as well as...
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Michael Metzen
Jun 15, 20191 min read
Electric Fish Module @ NSB
Excited to teach another year in NSB at MBL, Woods Hole, MA, USA. Electric Fish cycle starts on June 17th for 2 weeks....
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Michael Metzen
Oct 4, 20181 min read
paper on feedback got accepted @ eLife
Our paper "Feedback optimizes neural coding and perception of natural stimuli" just got accepted for publication @ eLife. check...
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Michael Metzen
Jul 10, 20180 min read
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Michael Metzen
Jul 2, 20181 min read
Thank you NS&B and MBL
After 2 intense but very exciting weeks in NS&B at the MBL, I am now returning to "normal" life... Thank you students, CDs, CAs and TAs...
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Michael Metzen
Jun 28, 20181 min read
paper out on envelope tracking in the black ghost @ J Exp Biol
paper out on motion and envelope tracking in black ghosts in Journal of Experimental Biology: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/early/201...
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Michael Metzen
Jun 26, 20181 min read
Paper on Feedback @ Plos Biol
New paper on feedback just got online @ PloS Biology!
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Michael Metzen
Jun 23, 20181 min read
Lecture on Electroreceptors
Giving a lecture on electroreceptors on Saturday morning for the students of the NS&B course at the MBL.
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Michael Metzen
Jun 15, 20181 min read
Welcome NS&B
Arrived at the MBL in Woods Hole, MA, to teach in the NS&B course for the next 2 weeks.
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Michael Metzen
Nov 12, 20171 min read
Poster on stimulus adaptation @ Neuroscience 2017
Gary presented a poster on our work on stimulus adaptation at the annual Neuroscience 2017 meeting in Washington, DC. #adaptation...
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Michael Metzen
Sep 13, 20171 min read
Invited talk @ the DZG in Bielefeld, Germany
I am giving a talk at the 110th Annual Meeting of the German Zoological Society (DZG): serotonergic SK channel modulation promotes...
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Michael Metzen
Jun 24, 20171 min read
NSB lecture @ MBL
I am giving a lecture (Electroreceptors - An overview across species) during the Neural Systems and Behavior Course at the MBL in Woods...
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Michael Metzen
Mar 19, 20171 min read
Our paper got published @ eLIFE
Stimulus background influences phase invariant coding by correlated neural activity https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24482.001 #elife...
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Michael Metzen
Sep 24, 20161 min read
Our review on tuberous receptors got published @ Elsevier
Physiology of Tuberous Electrosensory Systems. In: Encyclopedia of Fish Physiology: From Genome to Environment. Elsevier Reference Module...
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