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Jochen Ditterich, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
Center for Neuroscience
Center for Neuroengineering & Medicine
UC Davis
Abstract
Neuroscience is still debating what functional role synchronized oscillatory activity might play in the brain. Testing hypotheses requires causal interventions, and closed-loop phase-locked stimulation should serve this purpose. Existing algorithms are not particularly user-friendly, making such experiments difficult. I will propose a new, much more user-friendly algorithm, compare its detection and prediction performance to existing solutions, and discuss how we are approaching the real-time implementation. The goal is to make this technology readily available to the research community.
Bio
Dr. Ditterich obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany in 2000. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, Seattle in the area of neurophysiology, he joined the UC Davis faculty in 2004, where he is currently an Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior and a core faculty member of the Center for Neuroscience. After doing basic neuroscience research for almost two decades, focused mainly on neural mechanisms of decision-making, the Ditterich Lab now also pursues neuroengineering projects, providing new tools for basic neuroscience, but also developing new technology for translational applications.