My research focuses on the effects of learning on the neural representation of natural objects in extrastriate, temporal and prefrontal cortex. I am interested in how neural responses in these areas are related to cognitive functions such as attention, working memory and perceptual decision making and how they are modified by visual experience and modulatory neurotransmitters such as Acetylcholine, A short summary of some of my work on prefrontal cortex can be found here. A link to my laboratory in Fribourg can be found here.

Selected Publications:

Discrimination strategies of humans and rhesus monkeys for complex visual displays,
Kristina J. Nielsen, Nikos K. Logothetis and Gregor Rainer, Current Biology 16:814-820 (2006).

Phase locking of single neuron activity to theta oscillations during working memory in monkey extrastriate visual cortex,
Han Lee, Gregory V. Simpson, Nikos K. Logothetis and Gregor Rainer, Neuron 45:147-156 (2005).

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The Effect of Learning on the Function of Monkey Extrastriate Visual Cortex, Gregor Rainer, Han Lee and Nikos K. Logothetis, PLoS Biology 2:275-284 (2004). Public Library of Science Synopsis Max Planck Gesellschaft Pressemeldung Faculty of 1000 Evaluation Current Opinion in Neurobiology Review Article I Current Opinion in Neurobiology Review Article II

Nonmonotonic noise tuning of BOLD fMRI signal to natural images in the visual cortex of the anesthetized monkey,  Gregor Rainer, Mark Augath, Torsten Trinath and Nikos K. Logothetis, Current Biology 11(11):846-854 (2001). Current Biology dispatch Nature Reviews Neuroscience highlight

Effects of Visual Experience on the Representation of Objects in the Prefrontal Cortex,  Gregor Rainer and Earl K. Miller, Neuron 27:179-189 (2000). Neuron preview Current Biology dispatch Current Opinion in Neurobiology paper alert

Coding of objects in the prefrontal cortex in monkeys and humans, 
Gregor Rainer and Charan Ranganath, The Neuroscientist 8(1):6-11 (2002).