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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: Alumni Bethge

Publications

Articles (8):
•	Berens P , Ecker AS , Cotton RJ , Ma WJ , Bethge M and Tolias AS (August-2012) A Fast and Simple Population Code for Orientation in Primate V1 Journal of Neuroscience 32(31) 10618-10626.
•	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 (17):
•	Ecker A , Berens P , Tolias A and Bethge M (February-2012): The correlation structure induced by fluctuations in attention, 9th Annual Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (Cosyne 2012), Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
•	Berens P , Ecker AS , Gerwinn S , Tolias AS and Bethge M (February-2011): Optimal Population Coding, Revisited, Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2011), Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
•	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, Santorini, Greece.
•	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, Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2009), Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2009(Conference Abstracts: Computational and Systems Neuroscience).
•	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.
•	Macke JH , Berens P , Ecker AS , Opper M , Tolias AS and Bethge M (July-2008): Modeling populations of spiking neurons with the Dichotomized Gaussian distribution, Annual Meeting 2008 of Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology, Princeton, NJ, USA.
•	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, Santorini, Greece.
•	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, Santorini, Greece.
•	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), San Diego, CA, USA.
•	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), San Diego, CA, USA.
•	Tolias AS , Ecker A , Keliris GA , Panagiotaropolulos F , Panzeri S and Logothetis NK (September-2007): Population codes, correlations and coding uncertainty, Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD 07), Hossegor, France.
•	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), Hossegor, France.
•	Ecker AS , Berens P , Keliris GA , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (April-2007): A Data Management System for Electrophysiological Data Analysis, 31st Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany, Neuroforum, 13(Supplement) 1222.
•	Berens P , Keliris GA , Ecker AS , Logothetis NK and Tolias AS (April-2007): Orientation tuning of the local field potential and multi-unit activity in the primary visual cortex of the macaque, 31st Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, Göttingen, Germany, Neuroforum, 13(Supplement) 735.
•	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, Santorini, Greece.
•	Tolias AS , Ecker A , Keliris GA , Siapas TG , Smirnakis SM and Logothetis NK (March-2006): Structure of interneuronal correlations in the primary visual cortex of the rhesus macaque, Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2006), Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
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) Abstract Talk: 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).