Publications from McGovern Institute Investigators

Emilio Bizzi

Learning and generalization in vision and motor control.

Poggio, T. Bizzi, E.
Insight Review Article, Nature., 431: 768-774. (2004)
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Neuronal activity in the supplementary motor area of monkeys adapting to a new dynamic environment.

Padoa-Schioppa C., Li C.S., Bizzi E.
Journal of Neurophysiology 91(1): 449-473. (2004)
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Combinations of muscle synergies in the construction of a natural motor behavior

d'Avella, A., Saltiel, P., Bizzi, E.
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Martha Constantine-Paton

Receptor compartmentalization and trafficking at glutamate synapses: a developmental proposal

Brigitte van Zundert^1,2, Akira Yoshii¹ and Martha Constantine-Paton¹
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Microarray analysis microRNA expression in the developing mammalian brain

Published: 31 August 2004 | Received: 5 May 2004
Genome Biology 2004, 5:R68 | Revised: 25 June 2004 | Accepted: 13 July 2004
The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http://genomebiology.com/2004/5/9/R68
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Eye Opening Rapidly Induces Synaptic Potentiation and Refinement

Neuron, Vol. 43, 237-249, July 22, 2004, Copyright ©2004 by Cell Press
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Developmental depression of glutamate neurotransmission by chronic low-level activation of NMDA receptors

Shi, J., Aamodt, S.M., Townsend, M., Constantine-Paton, M. (2001)
J Neurosci, Aug 15;21(16):6233-44
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Chronic NMDA Receptor Blockade From Birth Delays the Maturation of NMDA Currents, but Does Not Affect AMPA/Kainate Currents

Colonnese, M., Shi, J., Constantine-Paton, M.
J Neurophysiol 89: 57-68, (2003)
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Eye opening induces a rapid dendritic localization of PSD-95 in Central visual neurons

Yoshi, A., Sheng, M., Constantine-Paton, M.
PNAS 100: 1334-1339, (2003)
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Developmental loss of miniature N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor currents in NR2A knockout mice

Townsend, M., Yoshii, A., Constantine-Paton, M.
PNAS 100: 1340-1345, (2003)
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Jim DiCarlo

Cox DD, Meier P, Oertelt N, DiCarlo JJ (2005)

'Breaking' Position-Invariant Object Recognition. Nature Neuroscience, 8: 1145-1147.
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Zoccolan D*, Cox DD* (contributed equally), DiCarlo JJ (2005)

Multiple object response normalization in monkey inferotemporal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(36): 8150-8164.
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DiCarlo JJ and Maunsell JHR (2003)

Anterior Inferotemporal Neurons of Monkeys Engaged in Object Recognition Can be Highly Sensitive to Object Retinal Position. Journal of Neurophysiology, 89: 3264-3278.
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Michale S. Fee

Encoding Pheromonal Signals in the Accessory Olfactory Bulb of Behaving Mice

M. Luo, M.S. Fee, L.C. Katz, Science 299: 1196-1201 (2003)
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An ultra-sparse code underlies the generation of neural sequences in a songbird

R.H.R. Hahnloser, A.A. Kozhevnikov, M.S. Fee , Nature,419: 65-70 (2002)
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Ann Graybiel

A Network Representation of Response Probability in the Striatum.

Blazquez, P.M., Fujii, N., Kojima, J., Graybiel, A.M. (2002)
Neuron Mar 14;33(6):973-82
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A genetic basis for obsessive grooming.

Graybiel, A.M., Saka, E. (2002)
Neuron, Jan 3; (1): 1-2
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Differential Metabolic Activity in the Striosome and Matrix Compartments of the Rat Striatum during Natural Behaviors.

Brown, L.L., Feldman, S.M., Smith, D.M., Cavanaugh, J.R., Ackermann, R.F., Graybiel, A.M. (2002)
The Journal of Neuroscience, Jan. 1, 2002, 22(1): 305-314
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H. Robert Horvitz

Microarray analysis of microRNA expression in the developing mammalian brain.

Miska, E., Alvarez-Saavedra, E., Yoshii, A., Townsend, M., Sestan, N., Rakic, P., Constantine-Paton, M., and Horvitz, H.R.
Genome Biology 5, R68. 1-13 (2004)
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The engulfment process of programmed cell deaths in Caenorhabditis elegans.

Reddien, P. and Horvitz, H.R.
Ann. Rev. Cell & Develop. Bio. 20, 193-221 (2004)
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The Caenorhabditis elegans F-box protein SEL-10 promotes female development and may target FEM-1 and FEM-3 for degradation by the proteasome.

Jaeger, S. Schwartz, H., Horvitz, H.R., and Conradt, B.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 101, 12549-12554 (2004)
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A new class of C. elegans synMuv genes implicates a Tip60/NuA4-like HAT complex as a negative regulator of Ras signaling.

Ceol, C. and Horvitz, H.R.
Developmental Cell 6, 563-576 (2004)
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A first insight into the molecular mechanisms of apoptosis.

Yuan, J. and Horvitz, H.R.
Cell S116, S53-S56 (2004)
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Mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans Serotonin Reuptake Transporter MOD-5 Reveal Serotonin-Dependent and -Independent Activities of Fluoxetine

Ranganathan, R., Sawin, E., Trent, C., Horvitz, H.R.
The Journal of Neuroscience 21(16):5871-5884 (2001)
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MOD-1 is a serotin-gated chloride channel that modulates locomotory behaviour in C. Elegans

Ranganathan, R., Cannon, S., Horvitz, H.R.
Nature 408: 470-475, (2000)
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Tomaso Poggio

Contextually Evoked Object-specific Responses in Human Visual Cortex

Cox, D., E. Meyers and P. Sinha.
Science, Vol. 303, No. 5667, 115-117, 2004.
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Consciousness and Neurosurgery

Crick, F., C. Koch, G. Kreiman and I. Fried.
Neurosurgery,Ê55, 272-282, 2004.
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Neural Coding: Computational and Biophysical Perspectives

Kreiman, G.
Physics of Life Reviews, 2, 71-102, 2004.
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Identification of Sparsely Distributed Clusters of Cis-Regulatory Elements in Sets of Co-expressed Genes,

Kreiman, G.
Nucleic Acids Research, 32, 2889-2900, 2004.
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Intracellular Measurements of Spatial Integration and the MAX Operation in Complex Cells of the Cat Primary Visual Cortex

Lampl, I., D. Ferster, T. Poggio and M. Riesenhuber.
Journal of Neurophysiology, 92, 2704-2713, 2004.
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Wider Recognition in Peripheral Vision Common to Different Subtypes of Dyslexia

Lorusso, M.L., A. Facoetti, S. Pesenti, C. Cattaneo, M. Molteni and G. Geiger.
Vision Research, 44, 2413-2424, 2004.
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Perceiving Illumination Inconsistencies in Scenes

Ostrovsky, Y., P. Cavanagh and P. Sinha.
Perception, under revision.

Q & A - Discussion

Poggio, T.
Current Biology, Vol. 14, Issue 23, R985-R986, December 2004.

Generalization in Vision and Motor Control

Poggio, T. and E. Bizzi.
Nature, Vol. 431, 768-774, 2004.
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Francis Harry Compton Crick

Poggio, T.P. and M. Poggio.
Physics Today, 80-81, November 2004.
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General Conditions for Predictivity in Learning Theory

Poggio, T., R. Rifkin, S. Mukherjee and P. Niyogi.
Nature, Vol. 428, 419-422, 2004.
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In Defense of One-vs-All Classification

Rifkin, R. and A. Klautau.
Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 5, 101-141, 2004.
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Object Recognition and Random Image Structure Evolution

Sadr, J. and P. Sinha.
Cognitive Science, Vol. 28, 259-287, 2004.

A Gene Atlas of the Mouse and Human Protein-Encoding Transcriptomes

Su, A.I., T. Wiltshire, S. Batalov, H. Lapp, K.A. Ching, D. Block, J. Zhang, R. Soden, M. Hayakawa, G. Kreiman, M.P. Cooke, J.R. Walker and J.B. Hogenesc.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 101, 6062-6067, 2004.

Systematic Identification and Analysis of Exonic Splicing Silencers

Wang, Z., M.E. Rolish, G. Yeo, V. Tung, M. Mawson and C.B. Burge.
Cell, 119, 831-845, 2004.

Variation in Alternative Splicing across Human Tissues

Yeo, G., D. Holste, G. Kreiman and C. Burge.
Genome Biology, 5, R74, 2004.

Variation in Sequence and Organization of Splicing Regulatory Elements in Vertebrate Genes

Yeo, G., S. Hoon, B. Venkatesh and C. Burge.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 191(44), 15700-15705, 2004.

Corriere Della Sera

by Marco Gasperetti and Edoardo Segantini (October 2003):
Yes, This is a Great Idea, but With Some Conditions - Tomaso Poggio.
Corriere article

The Economist

(October 9, 2003): Modelling complexity:
Agents of Creation - Artificial "agents" can model complex systems - Sanmay Das.
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Comparison of Primate Prefrontal and Inferior Temporal Cortices during Visual Categorization

Freedman, D.J., M. Riesenhuber, T. Poggio, and E.K. Miller.
Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 5235-5246, 2003.
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Visual Object Recognition with Supervised Learning

Heisele, B.
IEEE Intelligent Systems - AI's Second Century, 38-42, May-June 2003.
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Face Recognition: Component-based versus Global Approaches

Heisele, B., P. Ho, J. Wu and T. Poggio.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 91, No. 1/2, 6-21, 2003.
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Hierarchical Classification and Feature Reduction for Fast Face Detection with Support Vector

Heisele, B., T. Serre, S. Prentice and T. Poggio.
Pattern Recognition, 36, 2007-2017, 2003.
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Regularized Least Squares Classification. In: Advances in Learning Theory: Methods, Model and Applications

Rifkin, R., G. Yeo and T. Poggio.
NATO Science Series III: Computer and Systems Sciences,
VIOS Press, Amsterdam, (Eds.) Suykens, Horvath, Basu, Micchelli and Vandewalle, Vol. 190, Chapter 7, 131-154, 2003.
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"The Role of Eyebrows in Face Recognition"

Sadr, J., I. Jarudi and P. Sinha.
Perception, 32, 285-293, 2003.

Perceptual Evaluation of Video-realistic Speech

Geiger, G., Ezzat, T., and Poggio, T.
CBCL Paper #224/AI Memo #2003-003, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2003.
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Neural Mechanisms for the Recognition of Biological Movements

Giese, M. and Poggio, T.
Nature Neuroscience Review, Vol. 4, 179-192, March 2003.
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Visual Categorization and the Primate Prefrontal Cortex

Freedman, D.J., Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T., and Miller, E.K.
Neurophysiology and Behavior, Journal of Neurophysiology, 88, 930-942, 2002
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Neural Mechanisms of Object Recognition

Riesenhuber, M. and Poggio, T.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 12, 162-168, 2002.
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Prediction of central nervous system embryonal tumour outcome based on gene expression.

Pomeroy, S.L., Tamayo, P., Gaasenbeek, M., Sturla, L.M., Angelo, M., McLaughlin, M.E., Kim, J.Y.H., Goumnerova, L.C., Black, P.M., Lau, C., Allen, J.C., Zagzag, D., Olson, J.M., Curran, T., Wetmore, C., Biegel, J.A., Poggio, T., Mukherjee, S., Rifkin, R., Califano, A., Stolovitzky, G., Louis, D.N., Mesirov, J.P., Lander, E.S., Golub, T.R. (2002)
Nature 415, 436 - 442
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Multiclass cancer diagnosis using tumor gene expression signatures.

Ramaswamy, S., Tamayo, P., Rifkin, R., Mukherjee, S., Yeang, C-H., Angelo, M., Ladd, C., Reich, M., Latulippe, E., Mesirov, J.P., Poggio, T., Gerald, W., Loda, M., Lander, E.S., Golub, T.R. (2002)
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 98, Issue 26, 15149-15154
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Categorical representation of visual stimuli in the primate prefrontal cortex.

Freedman, D.J., Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T., Miller, E.K. (2001)
Science Jan 12;291(5502):312-6
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Models of Object Recognition.

Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T. (2000)
Nat Neurosci Nov;3 Suppl:1199-204
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Phillip A. Sharp

siRNAs can function as miRNAS

Doench, J.G., Peterson, C.P., and Sharp, P.A.
Genes Dev. 17, 438-442 (2003)
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siRNA-directed inhibition of HIV infection

Novina, C., Murray, M., Dykxhoorn, D., Beresford, P.J., Riess, J., Collman, R.G., Lieberman, J., Shankar, P., and Sharp, P.A.
Nature Medicine 8, 680-686 (2002)
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Predictive identification of exonic splicing enhancers in human genes.

Fairbrother, W.G., Yeh, R.-F., Sharp, P.A., and Burge, C.B.
Science 297, 1007-1013 (2002)
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