I have graduated, and am currently at Harvard in the Engert lab.
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Publications
Ahrens MB, Li JM, Orger MB, Robson DN, Schier AF, Engert F, Portugues R.
Brain-wide neuronal dynamics during motor adaptation in zebrafish.
Nature, 2012 (24 May edition, in press). [link to paper], [editor's blog]
Ahrens MB and Sahani M.
Observers exploit stochastic models of sensory change to help judge the passage of time.
Current Biology 21:1-7, 2011. [pdf], [supplemental information]
Englitz B*, Ahrens M*, Tolnai S, Rubsamen R, Sahani M, Jost J.
Multilinear models of single cell responses in the medial nucleus of the trapezoid body.
Network: Computation in Neural Systems 21(1-2): 91-124, 2010. [pdf]
Ahrens MB, Linden JF, Sahani M.
Nonlinearities and contextual influences in auditory cortical responses modeled with multilinear spectrotemporal methods.
Journal of Neuroscience 28(8): 1929-1942, 2008. [pdf]
Ahrens MB, Sahani M.
Inferring elapsed time from stochastic neural processes.
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 20, 2008. MIT press. [pdf] Best student paper, honorable mention.
Ahrens MB, Paninski L, Sahani M.
Inferring input nonlinearities in neural encoding models.
Network: Computation in Neural Systems 19(1), 35-67, 2008. [preprint]
Huys QJM*, Ahrens MB*, Paninski L.
Efficient estimation of detailed single neuron models.
Journal of Neurophysiology 96: 872-890, 2006. [preprint] [doi :10.1152/jn.00079.2006] [code]
Ahrens MB, Huys QJM, Paninski L.
Large-scale biophysical parameter estimation in single neurons via constrained linear regression.
In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, volume 18, 2006. MIT press. [pdf]
Conference presentations
In vivo multi-single-unit extracellular recordings from identified neural populations in Drosophila. Ahrens MB*, Barbic M*, Barbarits B, Jamieson B, Jayaraman V. COSYNE 2010.
Timing based on stochastic neural and sensory processes. Ahrens MB, Sahani M. COSYNE 2008. [abstract]
Level-distribution-related changes in IC responses: adaptation or instantaneous non-linearity? Hehrmann P, Dean I, Ahrens M, Harper N, McAlpine D, Sahani M. COSYNE 2008. [abstract]
A new class of neural encoding models for high dimensional stimuli and nonlinear contextual effects. Ahrens MB, Paninski L, Linden JF, Sahani M. NCCD, 2007 [link]
Inferring Elapsed Time from Stochastic Neural Processes. Ahrens MB, Sahani M. NIPS 2007
Auditory alerts caused by changes in unattended sounds. Ahrens MB, Sahani M. COSYNE 2007 [abstract]
Multilinear neural encoding models capture nonlinearities & contextual effects in cortical responses. Ahrens MB, Paninski L, Petersen RS, Linden JF, Sahani M. COSYNE 2007 [abstract]
Nonlinear contextual effects in auditory cortex modeled by multilinear spectrotemporal methods. Ahrens MB, Linden JF and Sahani M. Auditory Cortex 2006
Adaptation to the statistics of sound frequency in mammalian inferior colliculus. Robinson B, Ahrens MB, Dean I, Sahani M, McAlpine D. BSA 2006
Input nonlinearity models of barrel cortex responses. Ahrens MB, Paninski L, Petersen RS, Sahani M. CNS 2006
Multilinear spectrotemporal models for predicting auditory cortical responses. Ahrens MB, Linden JF, Sahani M. ARO 2006
Estimating non-homogeneous channel densities and synaptic activity from spatiotemporal dendritic voltage recordings. Ahrens MB, Huys QJM, Paninski L. COSYNE 2005
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