Applications of electrical engineering to neurobiology and animal behavior.
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I am interested in low-cost, high-performance biological instrumentation, schemes for reducing the dimensionality of biological data, simulation of neural and behavioral systems, and application of signal processing techniques to biological signals. Topics of ongoing research include inexpensive neurobiological instrumentation for high schools and colleges, estimation of the `complexity` of a signal to be compared to other biological measures, low-dimensional motion analysis of animal visual signals, mathematical simulation of neural processing in electroreception, and spike train analysis of electrophysiological data.
Expensive electronics often limits the effective teaching of neurobiology. We are attempting to provide solutions in the form of cheap, high quality circuits based on consumer electronics.
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We have published papers, generated web sites, and helped colleges and high school teachers adopt our electronics.
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Hard to quantify. Lots of people visit our web sites.
