Simon Schultz studied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Monash University in Australia, before obtaining his D.Phil. from Oxford University under the supervision of Professor Edmund Rolls, for work on information processing in the mammalian cerebral cortex. He spent four years at New York University as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellow with Professor JA Movshon, using both experimental (microelectrode recording) and theoretical approaches to study the primate visual system. He is interested in how sensory information is encoded and processed by neural circuits in the cerebral cortex. His laboratory is presently engaged in two broad streams of research activity. The first, which is theoretical, involves the development of methods based on information theory for analysing data recorded from many neurons simultaneously. The second, which is experimental, involves using electrophysiological and optical (two-photon imaging) recording approaches to study the neural coding of sensory information in the mouse cortex.

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