Primary research interest lies in increasing the ability to observe the electrical activities of nerve cells. This effort includes the use of microelectronic techniques to fabricate novel electrode arrays, their use in cell culture and in animals, and the development of automated computer data acquisition techniques to distinguish neural activity from noise. The last includes creating better statistical pattern recognition techniques to interpret the neural firing patterns. The goal is to better understand how the brain encodes information through patterns of neural activity.

• To design and create in vitro neural circuits with which to further the study of basic neuroscience,

• Lessons learned should be more widely applicable

• Cellular Lithography: patterned substrates
• Designability
• Electrode arrays (and other I/O)
• Robustness, Repeatability
• Data Acquisition and Analysis
• Function -- bursting, coding, logical operations
• Control (Learning) - modulation of function with experience

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