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    Sheila Nirenberg
    Department of Physiology
    And Biophysics
    Weill Medical College of
    Cornell University
    1300 York Avenue
    New York, NY 10021

    Office Phone: (212)746-6372
    Lab phone:(212)746-5666
    Fax: (212)746-8690
    Email: shn2010@med.cornell.edu

    Recent Publications

    The light response of retinal ganglion cells is truncated by a displaced amacrine circuit.
    S. Nirenberg and M. Meister.
    Neuron 18:637-650 (1997). PDF

    Population coding in the retina.
    S. Nirenberg and P.E. Latham.
    Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 8(4):488-493 (1998). PDF

    A novel signaling pathway from rod photoreceptors to ganglion cells in mammalian retina.
    E.R. Soucy, Y. Wang, S. Nirenberg, J. Nathans, and M. Meister.
    Neuron 21:481-493 (1998). PDF

    Photoablation of cells expressing beta-galactosidase.
    S. Nirenberg.
    Methods Mol Biol. 135:475-80 (2000). PDF

    Intrinsic dynamics in neuronal networks. I. Theory.
    P.E. Latham, B.J. Richmond, P.G. Nelson, and S. Nirenberg.
    J. Neurophysiol. 83(2):808-827 (2000). PDF

    Intrinsic dynamics in neuronal networks. II. Experiment.
    P.E. Latham, B.J. Richmond, S. Nirenberg, and P.G. Nelson.
    J. Neurophysiol. 83(2):828-835 (2000). PDF

    Retinal ganglion cells act largely as independent encoders.
    S. Nirenberg, S.M. Carcieri, A.L. Jacobs, and P.E. Latham.
    Nature 411:698-701 (2001). PDF
    Supplementary information: PDF
    Further discussion

    Characterization of neuropeptide Y-expressing cells in the mouse retina using immunohistochemical and transgenic techniques.
    J.R. Sinclair and S. Nirenberg.
    J. Comp. Neurol. 4    32:296-306 (2001). PDF

    Decoding neuronal spike trains: how important are correlations?
    S. Nirenberg and P.E. Latham
    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 100:7348-7353 (2003). Paper (PDF) Supporting Information (PDF)

    Classification of retinal ganglion cells: a statistical approach.
    S.M. Carcieri, A.L. Jacobs, and S. Nirenberg.
    J. Neurophysiol. 90:1704-1713 (2003). PDF

    Selective ablation of a class of amacrine cells alters spatial processing in the retina.
    J.R. Sinclair, A.L. Jacobs, and S. Nirenberg.
    J. Neurosci. 24(6):1459-1467 (2004). PDF

    Computing and stability in cortical networks.
    P.E. Latham and S. Nirenberg.
    Neural Comput, 16:1385-1412 (2004). PDF

    Synergy, Redundancy, and Independence in Population Codes, Revisited.
    P.E. Latham and S. Nirenberg.
    J. Neurosci. 25:5195-5206 (2005). PDF

    Analyzing the activity of large populations of neurons: how tractable is the problem?
    S. Nirenberg and J.D. Victor.
    Current Opinion in Neurobiology 17(4):397-400 (2007). PDF

    Ruling out and ruling in neural codes.
    Nirenberg,S., Jacobs, A.L., Fridman, G., Latham, P.E., Douglas, R.M., Alam, N.M. and Prusky, G.T. (2007) Pre-print available on request.

    Error-correction in the retina: is there any evidence?
    Latham, P.E., Roudi, Y. and Nirenberg, S. (2007)
    Pre-print available on request.

    Ganglion cell adaptability: Does the coupling of horizontal cells play a role?
    Dedek, K., Pandarinath, C., Alam, N. Wellershaus, K., Schubert, T., Willecke, K., Prusky, G.T., Weiler,, R., and Nirenberg, S.
    PLoS ONE, 3(3): e1714 (2008) PDF Link