Joshua Downer, PhD

Data Scientist

My research aims to provide a greater understanding for how the auditory cortex supports our ability to communicate.

Publications: 

Receptive-field nonlinearities in primary auditory cortex: a comparative perspective.

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)

Homma NY, See JZ, Atencio CA, Hu C, Downer JD, Beitel RE, Cheung SW, Najafabadi MS, Olsen T, Bigelow J, Hasenstaub AR, Malone BJ, Schreiner CE

An Emergent Population Code in Primary Auditory Cortex Supports Selective Attention to Spectral and Temporal Sound Features.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Downer JD, Verhein JR, Rapone BC, O'Connor KN, Sutter ML

Temporally precise population coding of dynamic sounds by auditory cortex.

Journal of neurophysiology

Downer JD, Bigelow J, Runfeldt MJ, Malone BJ

Choice-related activity and neural encoding in primary auditory cortex and lateral belt during feature-selective attention.

Journal of neurophysiology

Mohn JL, Downer JD, O'Connor KN, Johnson JS, Sutter ML

Hierarchical differences in population coding within auditory cortex.

Journal of neurophysiology

Downer JD, Niwa M, Sutter ML

Feature-Selective Attention Adaptively Shifts Noise Correlations in Primary Auditory Cortex.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Downer JD, Rapone B, Verhein J, O'Connor KN, Sutter ML

Task engagement selectively modulates neural correlations in primary auditory cortex.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience

Downer JD, Niwa M, Sutter ML