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Emilio Salinas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Anatomy

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Education & Training

	BSc	University Nacional Auto Mexico-Mexico	1992
	PhD	Brandeis University	1996
Fellowship		Howard Hughes Medical Inst	2001

Emilio Salinas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Neurobiology and Anatomy

Contact Information

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336-713-5176

Research Interests

neurosciences/behavior, animals, whole, nervous/sensory system/behavio, technology /technique developm, basic mechanisms, cognition/learning, animals, cells/membranes/tissu

Recent Publications

Putative midbrain dopamine neurons encode sensory salience and reward prediction at different latencies [abstract], Soc Neurosci Abstr, 10/29/2009

Neural coding of spatial representations, Encyclopedia of neuroscience, vol 6, 07/21/2009

Gain modulation, Encyclopedia of neuroscience, vol 4, 07/21/2009

Rank-order-selective neurons form a temporal basis set for the generation of motor sequences, J Neurosci, 06/23/2009

Neuronal communication: a detailed balancing act [commentary], Nat Neurosci, 06/23/2009

So many choices: what computational models reveal about decision-making mechanisms, Neuron, 03/11/2009

A diffusion model of the perceptual decision-making process in a Compelled-Saccade task [abstract], Soc Neurosci Abstr, 01/21/2009

A general, flexible decision model, applied to visual search [abstract], BMC Neurosci, 07/11/2008

A diffusion model of the perceptual decision-making process in a Compelled-Saccade task [abstract], Soc Neurosci Abstr, 02/05/2008

A simple measure of the coding efficiency of a neuronal population, Biosystems, 08/03/2007

Molecules to remember [comment on Cell 2007; 129(2):397-410], Cell, 07/10/2007

How behavioral constraints may determine optimal sensory representations [online only], PLoS Biol, 03/28/2007

Noisy neurons can certainly compute, Nat Neurosci, 12/28/2006

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