Eric I. Knudsen
PROFESSOR
NEUROBIOLOGY
Canary Center at Stanford
United States of America
Biography
He is a Emeritus (Active) Professor of Neurobiology.He is a Member of Bio-X and Stanford Neurosciences Institute. He was Chair of Stanford University School of Medicine - Neurobiology (2001 - 2006).He got Newcomb Cleveland Prize from American Association for the Advancement of Science (1978),Young Investigator Award from Society for Neuroscience (1984),Troland Research Award from National Academy of Sciences (1988),Claude Pepper Award from National Institute of Deafness and Communicative Disorders (1991).He is a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1996)
Research Interest
strategies of information processing in the central nervous system of birds (barn owls and chickens), using neurophysiological, pharmacological, anatomical and behavioral techniques.
Publications
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Sridharan D, Knudsen EI. Selective disinhibition: a unified neural mechanism for predictive and post hoc attentional selection. Vision research. 2015 Nov 30;116:194-209.
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Asadollahi A, Knudsen EI. Spatially precise visual gain control mediated by a cholinergic circuit in the midbrain attention network. Nature communications. 2016 Nov 17;7:13472.
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Sridharan D, Steinmetz NA, Moore T, Knudsen EI. Does the superior colliculus control perceptual sensitivity or choice bias during attention? Evidence from a multialternative decision framework. Journal of Neuroscience. 2017 Jan 18;37(3):480-511.
