Marshall Shuler, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow e-mail tel: 617-324-7006

Research Interests
My interest in the brain lies in understanding how large cell assemblies dynamically are formed and interact with one another.  By using a combination of multiple, simultaneous, extracellular recordings in anesthetized and awake behaving animals, I hope to relate the interactions seen in the spiking patterns of large numbers of neurons to the occurrence of external, as well as internally derived events in animals performing behaviorally relevant tasks. 

Recent Publications
Shuler MG, Bear MF.
Reward timing in the primary visual cortex.
Science. 2006 Mar 17;311(5767):1606-9.

Krupa DJ, Wiest MC, Shuler MG, Laubach M, Nicolelis MA.
Layer-specific somatosensory cortical activation during active tactile discrimination. Science. 2004 Jun 25;304(5679):1989-92.

Shuler MG, Krimm RF, Hill DL.
Neuron/target plasticity in the peripheral gustatory system. J Comp Neurol. 2004 Apr 26;472(2):183-92.

Shuler MG, Krupa DJ, Nicolelis MAL (2001a) Bilateral integration of whisker information in the primary somatosensory cortex of rats.  Journal of Neuroscience 21: 5251-5261.

Shuler MG, Krupa DJ, Nicolelis MAL (2001b) Integration of bilateral whisker stimuli in rats: role of the whisker barrel cortices.  Cerebral Cortex 12:86-97.

Nicolelis MAL, Shuler M. (2001). Thalamocortical and corticocortical interactions in the somatosensory system. In: Progress in Brain Research (Nicolelis MAL, ed), Vol. 130, pp. 89-110. New York: Elsevier.

Laubach M, Shuler MG, Nicolelis MA (1999) Independent component analyses for quantifying neuronal ensemble interactions.  Journal of Neuroscience Methods 94:141-154.