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Subject: [rseminars] Upcoming Research Seminars - Week 4
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:31:06 +0100
From: Helen Fagan <helen.fagan(a)york.ac.uk>
To: rseminars-l(a)ohm.york.ac.uk
Point-process analysis of neural signals: from frequency coding to
temporal coding
Monday 21st October, 1pm
Speaker: Dr Luca Citi (University of Essex)
Location: PL002
Synopsis:
The first part of the talk will show an application of neural decoding
for the purpose of controlling a robotic hand prosthesis. In this case
the so-called "frequency coding" paradigm was used, which assumes that
the neural information is encoded in the firing rate of individual
neurons. In the second part, a powerful statistical framework, point
processes, will be introduced. Among other applications, point
processes have successfully been used for neural decoding, giving
access to the so-called "temporal coding" which assumes that the actual
time of the spikes carries valuable information in addition to that
carried by the rate alone. An application of this method to a functional
neuro-muscolar stimulation system will be presented.
*Biography:*
Dr Luca Citi received a degree in Electronic Engineering in 2004 from
the University of Florence, Italy. He did his master's thesis as a
visiting student under Riccardo Poli's supervision at the Essex
Brain-Computer Interfaces group. In 2005, he enrolled in a PhD program
at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Italy) with a thesis about the decoding
of neural signals for the control of robotic arm prostheses. He then
spent three years as post-doc at Harvard Medical School and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on statistical analysis of
point processes (stochastic processes representing discrete events in
time) applied to heartbeat series and neural spike trains. He is
currently a Lecturer in Computational Intelligence at the University of
Essex.
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Miss Helen Fagan
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