Jamie Mazer PhD

Associate Professor of Neurobiology and of Psychology

Departments & Organizations

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Neurobiology: Swartz Program in Theoretical Neurobiology

Research Interests

Vision; attention; cortex; sensory processing; coordinate systems; neuroethology

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Education

B.A., Yale University , 1987
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology , 1995

Selected Publication

Sachdev R.N., Krause M.R., Mazer J.A., Surround suppression and sparse coding in visual and barrel cortices. Front Neural Circuits. 2012;6:43.

Articles

Sept/Oct 2011

New hope for old brains seen in study of memory

The prefrontal cortex (PFC)—the front part of the brain, just behind the forehead—is the site of a dizzying array of...