British neuroscientist
Kenneth D. Harris is a neuroscientist at University College London . He is most known for his contributions to the understanding of the neural code used by vast populations of neurons .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] Among his discoveries is the finding that populations in sensory areas of the brain also code for body movements.[ 6] Harris has contributed to the development of silicon probes[ 7] and most recently of Neuropixels probes .[ 8] With these probes, he and his team discovered that engagement in a task activates neurons throughout the brain.[ 9]
Harris obtained his PhD from UCL in the laboratory of Michael Recce, and did his postdoctoral studies at Rutgers University in the laboratory of Gyorgy Buzsaki .[ 10] He is a Professor of Quantitative Neuroscience[ 11] at the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology , where he co-directs the Cortical Processing Laboratory[ 12] with Matteo Carandini . Harris is a founding member of the International Brain Laboratory .
^ Harris, Kenneth D.; Csicsvari, Jozsef; Hirase, Hajime; Dragoi, George; Buzsáki, György (2003-07-31). "Organization of cell assemblies in the hippocampus". Nature . 424 (6948): 552–556. Bibcode :2003Natur.424..552H . doi :10.1038/nature01834 . ISSN 1476-4687 . PMID 12891358 . S2CID 4420968 .
^ Luczak, Artur; Barthó, Peter; Marguet, Stephan L.; Buzsáki, György; Harris, Kenneth D. (2007-01-02). "Sequential structure of neocortical spontaneous activity in vivo" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 104 (1): 347–352. Bibcode :2007PNAS..104..347L . doi :10.1073/pnas.0605643104 . ISSN 0027-8424 . PMC 1765463 . PMID 17185420 .
^ Renart, Alfonso; de la Rocha, Jaime; Bartho, Peter; Hollender, Liad; Parga, Néstor; Reyes, Alex; Harris, Kenneth D. (2010-01-29). "The asynchronous state in cortical circuits" . Science . 327 (5965): 587–590. Bibcode :2010Sci...327..587R . doi :10.1126/science.1179850 . ISSN 1095-9203 . PMC 2861483 . PMID 20110507 .
^ Stringer, Carsen; Pachitariu, Marius; Steinmetz, Nicholas; Carandini, Matteo; Harris, Kenneth D. (2019). "High-dimensional geometry of population responses in visual cortex" . Nature . 571 (7765): 361–365. doi :10.1038/s41586-019-1346-5 . ISSN 1476-4687 . PMC 6642054 . PMID 31243367 . Q72587818
^ Stringer, Carsen; Pachitariu, Marius; Steinmetz, Nicholas; Reddy, Charu Bai; Carandini, Matteo; Harris, Kenneth D. (2019). "Spontaneous behaviors drive multidimensional, brainwide activity" . Science . 364 (6437): 255. Bibcode :2019Sci...364..255S . doi :10.1126/science.aav7893 . ISSN 1095-9203 . PMC 6525101 . PMID 31000656 .
^ Cepelewicz, Jordana. " 'Noise' in the Brain Encodes Surprisingly Important Signals" . Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 2019-11-11 .
^ "$5M for international neuroscience 'dream team' " . University of Michigan News . 2015-11-03. Retrieved 2019-09-23 .
^ HHMI. "New Silicon Probes Record Activity of Hundreds of Neurons Simultaneously" . HHMI.org . Retrieved 2019-09-23 .
^ Abbott, Alison (2020-08-11). "Inside the mind of an animal" . Nature . 584 (7820): 182–185. Bibcode :2020Natur.584..182A . doi :10.1038/d41586-020-02337-x . PMID 32782378 .
^ "Neurotree - Kenneth D. Harris Family Tree" . neurotree.org . Retrieved 2019-09-23 .
^ UCL (2019-02-08). "harris-kenneth" . UCL Division of Biosciences . Retrieved 2019-09-23 .
^ UCL. "UCL - London's Global University" . Cortexlab . Retrieved 2019-09-23 .