Responsibilities
Group Leader and Scientific Director, German Neuroinformatics Node (G-Node)
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GSN Ombudsperson: neutral, independent, confidential, and informal students´ counseling to help resolve sensitive issues and conflicts
Contact
Dept. Biology II
Computational Neuroscience
Großhadernerstr. 2
D-82152 Planegg-Martinsried
Room:
B01.055
Phone:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-74810
Fax:
+49 (0)89 / 2180-74803
Email:
wachtler@bio.lmu.de
Website:
http://neuro.bio.lmu.de/research_groups/res-wachtler_th/index.html
Website:
http://www.g-node.org/
Website:
http://www.rtg2175.bio.lmu.de
Further Information
Keywords: sensory coding, visual system, neuroinformatics
Brief research description:
We are interested in how the brain efficiently processes sensory signals and achieves consistent representations under natural sensory stimulation. We use methods from neurophysiology, psychophysics, and computational modeling to study the neural principles of processing and coding in the visual system and how they relate to the properties of the sensory environment and to perception. At the German Neuroinformatics Node we are developing a hardware and software infrastructure to support efficient organization, storage, analysis, and sharing of neurophysiology data.
GSN students
- Current students: Shreya Khanal, Yannan Su, Felix Schrader, Reema Gupta
Selected publications:
Greene G, Gollisch T, Wachtler T (2016) Non-linear retinal processing supports invariance during fixational eye movements. Vision Res 118:158-170. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2015.10.012
Kellner CJ, Wachtler T (2016) Stimulus size dependence of hue changes induced by chromatic surrounds. J Opt Soc Am A 33:A267-A272. doi: 10.1364/JOSAA.33.00A267
Garbers C; Wachtler T (2016) Wavelength discrimination in drosophila suggests a role of Rhodopsin 1 in color vision. PLoS One 11:e0155728. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155728
Klauke S, Wachtler T (2015) "Tilt" in color space: Hue changes induced by chromatic surrounds. J Vis 15:17. doi: 10.1167/15.13.17
Kellner CJ, Wachtler T (2013) A distributed code for color in natural scenes derived from center-surround filtered cone signals. Front Psychol 4: 661. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00661