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Wyeth Bair

Neuroscientist | wyeth0@uw.edu | Website

I have a BS in Computer Science (Penn State) and a PhD in Computation and Neural Systems (Caltech), where my PhD work focused on computer modeling of the visual cortex, neural coding and analog VLSI circuits. As a post-doc at New York University, I studied temporal dynamics in cortical motion and form processing via multi-electrode recordings in non-human primates (NHPs). I started my lab at the University of Oxford, UK, funded by the Wellcome Trust and supported by St. John’s College, where I continued to study the visual cortex and began to build a general modeling framework for the motion processing pathway from retina to cortical area MT. In 2011, I moved to the University of Washington in Seattle where I set up 2-photon imaging for NHPs at the Washington National Primate Research Center (WaNPRC) and expanded my areas of interest to include mid-level form processing and “Artiphysiology” – the study of artificial neural networks as model visual systems. In collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Sciences, my lab now runs a 2- and 3-photon imaging laboratory to investigate structure-function relationships in the primate visual cortex.

Areas of Interest:
CognitionComputational NeuroscienceNeuro AISensory SystemsTechniques