Alex Bäcker’s Ph.D. Thesis:
Pattern recognition in locust early olfactory circuits:
Priming, gain control and coding issues (California Institute of Technology, 2002).
You may read the abstract or the entire thesis.
You can read a Nature paper that forms part of Chapter 5 here: Who reads temporal information contained across synchronized and oscillatory spike trains?.
List of selected chapters by topic:
Math and Computation:
Bäcker, A. (2002) The probability that a single underlying binomial
distribution yields two given success proportions: A hypothesis test
Bäcker, A. (2002) Fractional K-nearest neighbors: Dealing with
nonuniform sampling
Bäcker, A. and Cassenaer, S. (2002) Asymmetric sliding-window
cross-correlation
Zhigulin, V. and Bäcker, A. (2002) Self-organization of neural
networks into winnerless competition: A local learning rule achieves antisymmetric co-regulation of distant
synapses
Neural Coding:
Bäcker, A. and Wehr, M. (1997) Response variability is correlated
across multiple projection neurons in the antennal lobe of the locust
Bäcker, A. (2002) The information content of neurons engaged in
population temporal coding in early olfactory circuits
Bäcker, A. (2002) The role of synchronization in the decoding of
temporal information contained in neuronal assemblies
Bäcker, A. (2002) Multiplexing odor identity and concentration
information with a population temporal code
Olfaction:
Bäcker, A. (2002) Olfaction and the Chemical Senses. A Review.
Bäcker, A. (2002) The olfactory system is invariant to
volatility
Bäcker, A. (2002) Hedonic valence of odors in the locust, Schistocerca
americana
Bäcker, A. (2002) A computerized odor delivery system for arbitrary
time-varying concentrations and mixtures
Bäcker, A. (2002) Gain control via a balance of excitation and
inhibition in early olfactory circuits
Bäcker, A. (2002) Odor categorization: Attractors in the
representations of odors in the antennal lobe have sharp boundaries
Bäcker, A. (2002) The connectivity between the locust antennal lobes
and mushroom bodies: Combinatorics of a representation
Bäcker, A. (2002) Priming in early olfactory circuits
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