Chichilnisky Lab

Systems Neurobiology and Sloan-Swartz Center, The Salk Institute

Publications

Pillow JW, Shlens J, Paninski L, Sher A, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ & Simoncelli EP (2008). Spatio-temporal correlations and visual signalling in a complete neuronal population. Nature 454:995-9 [reprint]

Elstrott J, Anishchenko A, Greschner M, Sher A, Litke AM, Chichilnisky EJ & Feller MB (2008) Direction selectivity in the retina is established independent of visual experience and cholinergic retinal waves. Neuron 58:499-506. [reprint]

Sekirnjak C, Hottowy P, Sher A, Dabrowski W, Litke AM, & Chichilnisky EJ (2008) High-resolution electrical stimulation of primate retina for epiretinal implant design. Journal of Neuroscience 28:4446-4456. [reprint] [journal cover]

Sekirnjak C, Hottowy P, Sher A, Dabrowski W, Litke AM & Chichilnisky EJ (2007). Electrical stimulation of mammalian retinal ganglion cells using dense arrays of small-diameter electrodes. In: Artificial Sight; Springer Series Biological and Medical Physics/Biomedical Engineering, edited by Humayun MS, Weiland JD, Chader G & Greenbaum E. Springer (New York). pp 333-345. [reprint]

Field GD, Sher A, Gauthier JL, Greschner M, Shlens J, Litke AM, & Chichilnisky EJ (2007) Spatial properties and functional organization of small bistratified ganglion cells in primate retina. Journal of Neuroscience 27(48):13261-13272. [reprint]

Petrusca D, Grivich MI, Sher A, Field GD, Gauthier JL, Greschner M, Shlens J, Chichilnisky EJ, & Litke AM (2007) Identification and characterization of a Y-like primate retinal ganglion cell type. Journal of Neuroscience 27(41):11019-11027. [reprint]

Field GD & Chichilnisky EJ (2007) Information processing in the primate retina: Circuitry and coding. Annnual Review of Neuroscience 30:1-30. [reprint]

Shlens J, Kennel MB, Abarbanel HDI & Chichilnisky EJ (2007) Estimating information rates with confidence intervals in neural spike trains. Neural Computation 19(7):1683-1719. [reprint]

Horwitz GD, Chichilnisky EJ & Albright TD (2007) Cone inputs to simple and complex cells in V1 of awake macaque. Journal of Neurophysiology 97(4):3070-3081. [reprint]

Shlens J, Field GD, Gauthier JL, Grivich MI, Petrusca D, Sher A, Litke AM, & Chichilnisky EJ (2006) The structure of multi-neuron firing patterns in primate retina. Journal of Neuroscience 26(32):8254-8266. [reprint] [journal cover]

Sekirnjak C, Hottowy P, Sher A, Dabrowski W, Litke AM, & Chichilnisky EJ (2006) Electrical stimulation of mammalian retinal ganglion cells with multi-electrode arrays. Journal of Neurophysiology 95:3311-3327. [reprint] [journal cover]

Pillow JW, Paninski L, Uzzell VJ, Simoncelli EP, & Chichilnisky EJ (2005) Prediction and decoding of retinal ganglion cell responses with a probabilistic spiking model. Journal of Neuroscience 25(47):11003-11013. [reprint]

Frechette ES, Sher A, Grivich MI, Petrusca D, Litke AM, & Chichilnisky EJ (2005) Fidelity of the ensemble code for visual motion in primate retina. Journal of Neurophysiology 94(1):119-135. [reprint]

Chichilnisky EJ & Rieke F (2005) Detection sensitivity and temporal resolution of visual signals near absolute threshold in the salamander retina. Journal of Neuroscience 25(2):313-330. [reprint]

Kennel MB, Shlens J, Abarbanel HDI & Chichilnisky EJ (2005) Estimating entropy rates with Bayesian confidence intervals. Neural Computation 17(7):1531-76. [reprint]

Horwitz GD, Chichilnisky EJ & Albright TD (2005) Blue-Yellow signals are enhanced by spatiotemporal luminance contrast in macaque V1. Journal of Neurophysiology 93(4):2263-78. [reprint]

Uzzell VJ & Chichilnisky EJ (2004) Precision of spike trains in primate retinal ganglion cells. Journal of Neurophysiology 92:780-789. [reprint]

Litke AM, Bezayiff N, Chichilnisky EJ, Cunningham W, Dabrowski W, Grillo AA, Grivich M, Grybos P, Hottowy P, Kachiguine S, Kalmar RS, Mathieson K, Petrusca D, Rahman M & Sher A (2004) What does the eye tell the brain? Development of a system for the large scale recording of retinal output activity. IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 51(4):1434-1440 [reprint]

Chichilnisky EJ & Kalmar RS (2003) Temporal resolution of ensemble visual motion signals in primate retina. Journal of Neuroscience 23(17):6681-6689. [reprint]

Chichilnisky EJ & Kalmar RS (2002) Functional asymmetries in ON and OFF ganglion cells of primate retina. Journal of Neuroscience 22(7):2737-47. [reprint]

Schwartz O, Chichilnisky EJ & Simoncelli EP (2002) Characterizing neural gain control using spike-triggered covariance. Neural Information Processing Systems 14:269-276. [reprint]

Chander D & Chichilnisky EJ (2001) Adaptation to temporal contrast in primate and salamander retina. Journal of Neuroscience 21(24):9904-16. [reprint]

Chichilnisky EJ (2001) A simple white noise analysis of neuronal light responses. Network 12(2):199-213. [reprint]

Previous Publications

Chichilnisky EJ & Baylor DA (1999) Receptive-field microstructure of blue-yellow ganglion cells in primate retina. Nature Neuroscience 2(10):889-893. [reprint] [journal cover]

Chichilnisky EJ & Wandell BA (1999) Trichromatic opponent-color classification. Vision Research 39(20):3444-3458. [reprint]

Chichilnisky EJ & Wandell BA (1996) Seeing gray through the ON and OFF pathways. Visual Neuroscience 13:591-596 [reprint]

Chichilnisky EJ & Wandell BA (1995) Photoreceptor sensitivity changes explain color appearance shifts induced by large uniform backgrounds in dichoptic matching. Vision Research 35(2):239-254. [reprint]

Chichilnisky EJ & Wandell BA (1993) Functional segregation of color and motion perception examined in motion nulling. Vision Research 33(15):2113-2125. [reprint]

Chichilnisky EJ (1986) A mathematical model of pattern formation. Journal of Theoretical Biology 123:81-101. [reprint]