Responsibilities
Chair of Computational Neuroscience, Division Neurobiology
Speaker of Bernstein Center Munich, Speaker of Bernstein Network
Contact
Dept. Biology II
Division Neurobiology
Computational Neuroscience
Großhaderner Straße 2
D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Room: D01.052
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-74801
Fax:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-74803
Email:
herz@bio.lmu.de
Website:
http://www.neuro.bio.lmu.de/members/comp_neuro_herz/herz_a/index.html
Website:
http://www.bccn-munich.de/people/andreas-herz
Further Information
Research focus: Collective properties of neural networks, acoustic communication, auditory processing and sexual selection, optimality and adaptation of sensory systems, interaction of cell-intrinsic rhythms and large-scale oscillations, nonlinear dynamics
Key words: Cellular biophysics, neural basis of spatial navigation, optimality and adaptation of sensory systems, collective properties of neural networks
GSN students
- Current: Dora Csordas, Avleen Sahni
- Graduated: Dr. Alexander Mathis, Dr. Johannes Nehrkorn, Dr. Ksenia Yashina, Dr. Caroline Fischer, Dr. Johannes Nagele, Dr. Michaela Poth (née Pröll)
Selected publications:
Yarali A, Nehrkorn J, Tanimoto H and Herz AV. (2012) Event Timing in Associative Learning: From Biochemical Reaction Dynamics to Behavioural Observations. PLoS ONE 7(3): e32885. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032885.
Reifenstein E, Kempter R, Schreiber S, Stemmler M and Herz AV. (2012) Grid cells in rat entorhinal cortex encode physical space with independent firing fields and phase precession at the single-trial level. PNAS published ahead of print April 2, 2012, doi:10.1073/pnas.1109599109.
Telenczuk B, Baker SN, Herz A and Curio G. (2011) High-frequency EEG co-varies with spike burst patterns detected in cortical neurons. J Neurophysiol 105: 2951-9.
Creutzig F, Benda J, Wohlgemuth S, Stumpner A, Ronacher B and Herz AV. (2010) Timescale-Invariant Pattern Recognition by Feedforward Inhibition and Parallel Signal Processing. Neural Comput 22: 1493-1510.
Creutzig F, Wohlgemuth S, Stumpner A, Benda J, Ronacher B and Herz AV. (2009) Timescale-invariant representation of acoustic communication signals by a bursting neuron. J Neurosci 29(8): 2575-80.