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Alexander Ecker

Address:	Spemannstr. 41 72076 Tübingen
Room number:	1.A.02
Phone:	+49 7071 601 1775
E-Mail:	alexander.ecker

Alexander Ecker

Position: PhD Student Unit: Bethge

Publications

Articles (7):
•	Ecker AS , Berens P , Tolias AS and Bethge M (October-2011) The effect of noise correlations in populations of diversely tuned neurons Journal of Neuroscience 31(40) 14272-14283.
•	Berens P , Ecker AS , Gerwinn S , Tolias AS and Bethge M (March-2011) Reassessing optimal neural population codes with neurometric functions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108(11) 4423-4428.
•	Ecker AS , Berens P , Keliris GA , Bethge M , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (January-2010) Decorrelated Neuronal Firing in Cortical Microcircuits Science 327(5965) 584-587.
•	Macke JH , Berens P , Ecker AS , Tolias AS and Bethge M (February-2009) Generating Spike Trains with Specified Correlation Coefficients Neural Computation 21(2) 397-423.
•	Berens P , Keliris GA , Ecker AS , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (December-2008) Feature selectivity of the gamma-band of the local field potential in primate primary visual cortex Frontiers in Neuroscience 2(2) 199-207.
•	Berens P , Keliris GA , Ecker AS , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (June-2008) Comparing the feature selectivity of the gamma-band of the local field potential and the underlying spiking activity in primate visual cortex Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 2(2) 1-11.
•	Tolias AS , Ecker AS , Siapas AG , Hoenselaar A , Keliris GA and Logothetis NK (December-2007) Recording Chronically from the same Neurons in Awake, Behaving Primates Journal of Neurophysiology 98(6) 3780-3790.
Conference papers (1):
•	Berens P , Gerwinn S , Ecker AS and Bethge M (April-2010) Neurometric function analysis of population codes In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22, 23rd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2009), Curran, Red Hook, NY, USA, 90-98.
Posters (12):
•	Ecker AS , Berens P , Keliris GA , Bethge M , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (November-2010): Decorrelated neuronal firing in cortical microcircuits, 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2010), San Diego, CA, USA.
•	Ecker AS , Berens P , Keliris GA , Bethge M , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (June-2010): Decorrelated Firing in Cortical Microcircuits, AREADNE 2010: Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles, 2010 58.
•	Berens P , Macke JH , Ecker AS , Cotton RJ , Bethge M and Tolias AS (March-2009): Sensory input statistics and network mechanisms in primate primary visual cortex, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2009(Conference Abstract: Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 1.
•	Ecker AS , Berens P , Hoenselaar A , Subramaniyan M , Tolias AS and Bethge M (September-2008): Towards the neural basis of the flash-lag effect, International Workshop on Aspects of Adaptive Cortex Dynamics, 2008 1.
•	Bethge M , Macke JH , Berens P , Ecker AS and Tolias AS (June-2008): Flexible Models for Population Spike Trains, AREADNE 2008: Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles, 2 52.
•	Berens P , Ecker AS , Subramaniyan M , Macke JH , Hauck P , Bethge M and Tolias AS (June-2008): Pairwise Correlations and Multineuronal Firing Patterns in the Primary Visual Cortex of the Awake, Behaving Macaque, AREADNE 2008: Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles, 2 48.
•	Berens P , Ecker AS , Keliris GA , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (November-2007): On the spatial scale of the local field potential - orientation and ocularity tuning of the local field potential in the primary visual cortex of the macaque, 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2007), 37 1.
•	Ecker AS , Siapas AG , Hoenselaar A , Berens P , Keliris GA , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (November-2007): Recording chronically from the same neurons in awake, behaving primates, 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2007), 37 1.
•	Ecker AS , Berens P , Bethge M , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (September-2007): Studying the effects of noise correlations on population coding using a sampling method, Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD 07), 1 21.
•	Ecker AS , Berens P , Keliris GA , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (March-2007): A Data Management System for Electrophysiological Data Analysis, 7th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, 7 1.
•	Berens P , Keliris GA , Ecker AS , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (March-2007): Orientation tuning of the local field potential and multi-unit activity in the primary visual cortex of the macaque, 7th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, 7 1.
•	Berens P , Ecker AS , Hoenselaar A , Keliris GA , Siapas AG , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (June-2006): Spikes are phase locked to the gamma-band of the local field potential oscillations in the primary visual cortex of the macaque, AREADNE 2006: Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles, 1 39.
Theses (1):
•	Ecker AS : Predictive Coding and Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity in Primary Visual Cortex, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (March-2008). Diplom thesis
Talks (1):
•	Tolias AS , Keliris GA , Ecker AS , Siapas AG , Smirnakis SM and Logothetis NK (November-2005): Structure of interneuronal correlations in the primary visual cortex of the Rhesus macaque, 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2005), Washington, DC, USA(591.12).