Alexander Gail

PhD, German Primate Center

1997 Physics Diploma, Philipps University, Marburg
2002 Dr. rer. nat. (Physics) Philipps University, Marburg
2002-2003 Postdoc (Neurophysics Laboratory of R. Eckhorn, Marburg)
2003-2006 Postdoc (Laboratory of R. Andersen, Pasadena, CA, USA)
2006 Junior research group leader, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Göttingen

Major Research Interests:

Alexander Gail

Sensorimotor integration, cognitive movement planning, neuroprosthetics, neuronal synchronization, visual object coding; methods: awake monkey electrophysiology, extracellular multi-channel microelectrode recordings, psychophysics in human and non-human primates, correlation and spectral coherence analysis, pattern recognition

Address:
German Primate Center
Kellnerweg 4

37077 Göttingen
Germany

phone: +49-551-38 51 358
fax: +49-551-38 51 425
e-mail:

Further Information:
http://www.dpz.eu/smg

or:
http://www.bccn-
goettingen.de/Groups/gail

Selected Recent Publications:

Brozovic M*, Gail A*, Andersen, RA (2007) Gain mechanisms for contextually guided visuomotor transformations. J Neurosci 27: 10588-10596. [* both authors contributed equally]

Gail A, Andersen RA (2006) Neural Dynamics in Monkey Parietal Reach Region Reflect Context-Specific Sensorimotor Transformations. J Neurosci 26: 9376-9384.

Gail A, Brinksmeyer H-J, Eckhorn R (2004) Perception-related modulations of local field potential power and coherence in primary visual cortex of awake monkey during binocular rivalry. Cerebral Cortex 14:300–313.

Eckhorn R, Gail A, Bruns A, Gabriel A, Al-Shaikhly B, Saam M (2004) Different types of signal coupling in the visual cortex related to neural mechanisms of associative processing and perception. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 15(5):1039-1052.

Gail A, Brinksmeyer H-J, Eckhorn R (2003) Simultaneous mapping of binocular and monocular receptive fields in awake monkeys for calibrating eye alignment in a dichoptical setup. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 126:41–56.

Gail A, Brinksmeyer HJ, Eckhorn R (2000) Contour decouples gamma activity across texture representation in monkey striate cortex. Cerebral Cortex 10:840–850.