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Nicole Rust

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Assistant Professor
Education: 
BS in Molecular Biology and Chemistry, University of Idaho; Ph.D. in Neural Science, New York University
Department: 
Psychology
Address: 
3401 Walnut St., Room 317C
Phone: 
215-898-4587
Email: 
nrust@sas.upenn.edu

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Research Themes: 
Behavioral Neuroscience
Sensation and Perception
Specific Research Areas: 
Neural basis of object recognition
Research Synopsis: 

Neural basis of object recognition

Advisees: 
  • Daniel Drucker [Post-doc]
Appointments: 
Psychology Graduate Group
Publications: 

Rust NC, Mante V, Simoncelli EP, Movshon JA (2006) How MT cells analyze the motion of visual patterns. Nature Neuroscience, 11:1421-1431. Supplementary material (stimulus). News and views by Tao Zhang and Ken Britten: The virtue of simplicity.

Schwartz O, Pillow JP, Rust NC and Simocelli EP (2006) Spike-triggered neural characterization. Journal of Vision 6:484-507.

Rust NC and Movshon JA (2005) In praise of artifice. Nature Neuroscience 8: 1647-1649

Carandini M, Demb JB, Mante V, Tolhurst DJ, Dan Y, Olshausen BA, Gallant JL, Rust NC (2005) Do we know what the early visual system does? Journal of Neuroscience 25, 10577-10597

Rust NC, Schwartz O, Movshon JA, Simoncelli EP (2005) Spatiotemporal elements of macaque V1 receptive fields. Neuron 46: 945-956. Preview by Jose-Manuel Alonso: Building better models of visual cortical recepive fields.

Rust NC, Schwartz O, Movshon JA, Simoncelli EP (2004) Spike-triggered characterization of excitatory and suppressive stimulus dimensions in monkey directionally selective neurons. NeuroComputing: 58-60: 793-799. (CNS conference proceedings).