Matteo Carandini

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Matteo Carandini (b. 1967) is a contemporary neuroscientist who studies the visual system. After holding positions in Zurich (1999-2002) and in San Francisco (2002-2008), he is currently a Professor at University College London.

His studies focus on the lateral geniculate nucleus and on the visual cortex (V1). In the 1990s, working with David Heeger and J Anthony Movshon he refined and provided evidence for Heeger's normalization model of V1 responses. Together with David Ferster he discovered that prolonged visual stimulation causes a tonic hyperpolarization in V1 neurons.

More recent work concerns the characterization of fast adaptive mechanisms in the responses of the early visual system, a comparison with the properties of natural images and a test of the resulting models in the responses to complex natural stimuli.

[edit] Most cited papers

Anderson, JS; Carandini, M; Ferster, D "Orientation Tuning Of Input Conductance, Excitation, and Inhibition In Cat Primary Visual Cortex" Journal Of Neurophysiology, 84 (2): 909-926 Aug 2000.

Carandini, M; Ferster, D. "Title: Membrane Potential And Firing Rate In Cat Primary Visual Cortex

Journal Of Neuroscience, 20 (1): 470-484 Jan 1 2000.

Carandini, M; Heeger, DJ; Movshon, JA"Linearity And Normalization In Simple Cells Of The Macaque Primary Visual Cortex" Journal Of Neuroscience, 17 (21): 8621-8644 Nov 1 1997.