Dario L. Ringach, Ph.D.

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Titles

Professor, Psychology

Behavioral Neuroscience

Neurobiology

Member, Brain Research Institute

Neuroengineering Training Program

Neuroscience GPB Home Area

Contact Information

Email
dario@ucla.edu
Address

Office Address:

office
73-235 CHS

UNITED STATES

Website
http://web.mac.com/darioringach

Biography

visual neurophysiology and perception

Our research focuses on visual perception and neurophysiology. In particular, we are interested in cortical dynamics, circuitry, function, and mathematical modeling of the visual system. The main methods in the laboratory include multi-electrode recordings from single neurons, as well as intrisic and voltage senstive dye imaging of visual cortex.

We also have an interest in developing novel technologies to record and stimulate from large neuronal populations for use in prostheses.

For a detailed description of our research visit: http://manuelita.psych.ucla.edu/

Publications

A selected list of publications:

Lopour Beth A, Tavassoli Abtine, Fried Itzhak, Ringach Dario L   Coding of information in the phase of local field potentials within human medial temporal lobe Neuron, 2013; 79(3): 594-606.
Paik Se-Bum, Ringach Dario L   Link between orientation and retinotopic maps in primary visual cortex Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012; 109(18): 7091-6.
Nauhaus Ian, Busse Laura, Ringach Dario L, Carandini Matteo   Robustness of traveling waves in ongoing activity of visual cortex The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2012; 32(9): 3088-94.
Frey Jared, Ringach Dario L   Binocular eye movements evoked by self-induced motion parallax The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2011; 31(47): 17069-73.
Paik Se-Bum, Ringach Dario L   Retinal origin of orientation maps in visual cortex Nature neuroscience, 2011; 14(7): 919-25.
Ringach Dario L   The use of nonhuman animals in biomedical research The American journal of the medical sciences, 2011; 342(4): 305-13.
Ringach Dario L   You get what you get and you don't get upset Nature neuroscience, 2011; 14(2): 123-4.
Pouget Alexander, Ringach Dario L, Landy Michael   Data rules; but theory understands: an introduction to a special issue on "Mathematical models of visual coding" Vision research, 2010; 50(22): 2189.
Ringach Dario L   Population coding under normalization Vision research, 2010; 50(22): 2223-32.
Theobald Jamie C, Ringach Dario L, Frye Mark A   Visual stabilization dynamics are enhanced by standing flight velocity Biology letters, 2010; 6(3): 410-3.
Malone BJ, Ringach DL.   Dynamics of tuning in the Fourier domain, J Neurophysiol, 2008; 100(1): 239-48.
Theobald JC, Duistermars BJ, Ringach DL, Frye MA.   Flies see second-order motion, Curr Biol, 2008; 18(11): R464-5.
Nauhaus I, Benucci A, Carandini M, Ringach DL.   Neuronal selectivity and local map structure in visual cortex, Neuron, 2008; 57(5): 673-9.
Malone BJ, Kumar VR, Ringach DL.   Dynamics of receptive field size in primary visual cortex, J Neurophysiol, 2007; 97(1): 407-14.
Ringach DL.   On the origin of the functional architecture of the cortex, PLoS ONE, 2007; 28(2): e251.
Nauhaus I, Ringach DL.   Precise alignment of micromachined electrode arrays with V1 functional maps, J Neurophysiol, 2007; 97(5): 3781-9.
Ringach DL, Malone BJ.   The operating point of the cortex: neurons as large deviation detectors, J Neurosci, 2007; 27(29): 7673-83.
Xing D, Shapley RM, Hawken MJ, Ringach DL.   Effect of stimulus size on the dynamics of orientation selectivity in Macaque V1, J Neurophysiol, 2005; 94(1): 799-812.
Mata ML, Ringach DL.   Spatial overlap of ON and OFF subregions and its relation to response modulation ratio in macaque primary visual cortex, J Neurophysiol, 2005; 93(2): 919-28.
Xing D, Ringach DL, Shapley R, Hawken MJ.   Correlation of local and global orientation and spatial frequency tuning in macaque V1, J Physiol, 2004; 557(Pt 3): 923-33.
Ringach DL.   Haphazard wiring of simple receptive fields and orientation columns in visual cortex, J Neurophysiol, 2004; 92(1): 468-76.
Ringach DL.   Mapping receptive fields in primary visual cortex, J Physiol, 2004; 558(Pt 3): 717-28.
Shapley R, Hawken M, Ringach DL.   Dynamics of orientation selectivity in the primary visual cortex and the importance of cortical inhibition, Neuron, 2003; 38(5): 689-99.
Ringach, DL Hawken, MJ Shapley, R   Dynamics of orientation tuning in macaque V1: the role of global and tuned suppression Journal of neurophysiology. , 2003; 90(1): 342-52.
Dorn JD, Ringach DL.   Estimating membrane voltage correlations from extracellular spike trains, J Neurophysiol, 2003; 89(4): 2271-8.
Dorn, JD Ringach, DL   Estimating membrane voltage correlations from extracellular spike trains Journal of neurophysiology. , 2003; 89(4): 2271-8.
Ringach DL.   Look at the big picture (details will follow), Nat Neurosci, 2003; 6(1): 7-8.
Ringach DL.   Neuroscience: states of mind, Nature, 2003; 425(6961): 912-3.
Bredfeldt, CE Ringach, DL   Dynamics of spatial frequency tuning in macaque V1 The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. , 2002; 22(5): 1976-84.
Bredfeldt C, Ringach D   Dynamics of spatial frequency tuning of macaque LGN, J Vis, 2002; 2(7): 219a.
Nykamp, DQ Ringach, DL   Full identification of a linear-nonlinear system via cross-correlation analysis Journal of vision [electronic resource]. , 2002; 2(1): 1-11.
Nykamp DQ, Ringach DL.   Full identification of a linear-nonlinear system via cross-correlation analysis, J Vis, 2002; 2(1): 1-11.
Dorn JD, Ringach DL   Long-range interactions in macaque primary visual cortex, J Vis, 2002; 2(7): 108a.
Mechler F, Ringach DL   On the classification of simple and complex cells, Vis Res, 2002; 42(8): 1017-33.
Mechler F, Ringach DL.   On the classification of simple and complex cells, Vision Res, 2002; 42(8): 1017-33.
Ringach, DL Shapley, RM Hawken, MJ   Orientation selectivity in macaque V1: diversity and laminar dependence The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. , 2002; 22(13): 5639-51.
Mechler F, Ringach jDL   Re-evaluating the dichotomy between simple and complex cells in primary visual cortex (V1), J Vis, 2002; 2(7): 124a.
Ringach, DL Hawken, MJ Shapley, R   Receptive field structure of neurons in monkey primary visual cortex revealed by stimulation with natural image sequences Journal of vision [electronic resource]. , 2002; 2(1): 12-24.
Ringach DL, Hawken MJ, Shapley R.   Receptive field structure of neurons in monkey primary visual cortex revealed by stimulation with natural image sequences, J Vis, 2002; 2(1): 12-24.
Ringach, DL   Spatial structure and symmetry of simple-cell receptive fields in macaque primary visual cortex Journal of neurophysiology. , 2002; 88(1): 455-63.
Ringach, DL Bredfeldt, CE Shapley, RM Hawken, MJ   Suppression of neural responses to nonoptimal stimuli correlates with tuning selectivity in macaque V1 Journal of neurophysiology. , 2002; 87(2): 1018-27.
Hqwken MJ, Shapley RM, Ringach DL, Sceniak MP, Johnson EN, Mareschal I, Henrie JA   Contrast gain as a function of the temporal frequency of macaque V1 neurons, Invest Ophthal & Vis Sci, 2001; 42(4): 3898, Suppl. S.
Hawken MJ, Shapley R, Sceniak MP, Ringach DL, Johnson EN   Contrast gain, area summation and temporal tuning in primate visual cortex, Vision and Attention, 2001; .
Pugh, MC Ringach, DL Shapley, R Shelley, MJ   Computational modeling of orientation tuning dynamics in monkey primary visual cortex Journal of computational neuroscience. , 2000; 8(2): 143-59.
Ringach DL, Bredfeldt CE, Dorn JD, Spriggs D, Irazoqui-Pastor P   Dynamics of spatial frequency selectivity in macaque primary visual cortex, Invest Ophthal & Vis Sci, 2000; 41(4): 1749.
Sceniak, MP Ringach, DL Hawken, MJ Shapley, R   Contrast's effect on spatial summation by macaque V1 neurons Nature neuroscience. , 1999; 2(8): 733-9.
Shapley R, Ringach D   Dynamics of Responses in Visual Cortex, The New Cognitive Neurosciences, 1999; .
Ringach, DL   Tuning of orientation detectors in human vision Vision research. , 1998; 38(7): 963-72.
Ringach, DL Hawken, MJ Shapley, R   Dynamics of orientation tuning in macaque primary visual cortex Nature. , 1997; 387(6630): 281-4.
Carandini, M Ringach, DL   Predictions of a recurrent model of orientation selectivity Vision research. , 1997; 37(21): 3061-71.