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Joshua Downer, PhD

Data Scientist

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

Temporally precise population coding of dynamic sounds by auditory cortex.

Downer JD, Bigelow J, Runfeldt MJ, Malone BJ

Journal of neurophysiology

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

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

Journal of neurophysiology

Hierarchical differences in population coding within auditory cortex.

Downer JD, Niwa M, Sutter ML

Journal of neurophysiology

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

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

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

Task engagement selectively modulates neural correlations in primary auditory cortex.

Downer JD, Niwa M, Sutter ML

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