Michael Oram
Lecturer
School of Psychology & Neuroscience
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
Mike Oram's research is into the neurophysiology underlying behaviour, particularly primate visual information processing and how this might lead to psychological phenomena related to perception. He uses neurophysiological data to constrain and direct the traditionally 'engineering based' area of neural networks used to aid understanding of sensory mechanisms. His work focuses on the temporal aspects of neurophysiological data and how this relates to the processing of visual information, including analysis and modelling methods that allow examination of temporal properties of neurophysiological data. This type of quantitative analysis of response properties of neurones suggests possible relationships between neural activity and behavioural phenomena
Research Interest
Psychology & Neuroscience
Publications
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Endres, DM & Oram, MW 2010, 'Feature extraction from spike trains with Bayesian binning: ‘Latency is where the signal starts’' Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol 29, no. 1-2, pp. 149-169. DOI: 10.1007/s10827-009-0157-3
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ram, MW 2011, 'Visual Stimulation Decorrelates Neuronal Activity' Journal of Neurophysiology, vol 105, no. 2, pp. 942-957. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00711.2009
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Lorteije, JAM, Barraclough, NE, Jellema, T, Raemaekers, M, Duijnhouwer, J, Xiao, D, Oram, MW, Lankheet, MJM, Perrett, DI & van Wezel, RJA 2011, 'Implied motion activation in cortical area MT can be explained by visual low-level features' Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol 23, no. 6, pp. 1533-1548. DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21533
