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Cortical Control of Skilled Hand Function
Alexander Kraskova.kraskov{at}ion.ucl.ac.uk
I am a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the lab of Prof Roger Lemon at the Sobell Department of UCL Institute of Neurology.
Before joining Roger’s lab I was a Swartz postdoctoral fellow at Sloan Swartz Center of Theoretical Neuroscience working with Prof. Christof Koch, Caltech. My research was focused on understanding whether LFPs potentials recorded in medial temporal lobe of human epileptic patients can be selective to categories of images presented to patients. We also investigated explicit encoding of multimodal percepts by single neurons in the human brain. The experiments were done in the lab of Dr. Itzhak Fried, UCLA.
I received my PhD degree (summa cum laude) from University of Wuppertal, Germany in the lab of Prof. Peter Grassberger based in John von Neumann Institute for Computing (full Phd text). I worked on methods for analysis of experimental (mostly physiological) data. We developed a new method for estimation of mutual information which was successfully applied to the clustering of data and to independent component analysis (ICA).
Recent Publications
Kraskov, A., Dancause, N., Quallo, M.M., Shepherd, S., and Lemon, R. N. (2009) Corticospinal neurons in macaque ventral premotor cortex with mirror properties: a potential mechanism for action suppression? Neuron 64(6), 922-30. Pubmed
Spinks, R. L.*, Kraskov, A.*, Brochier, T., Umilta, M. A., and Lemon, R. N. (2008) Encoding of grasp by local field potentials and by single neurons recorded simultaneously from M1 and F5 in the awake, behaving macaque monkey, J Neurosci, 28(43), 10961-10971 (*these authors contributed equally) Pubmed free text
Pedreira, C., Mormann, F., Kraskov, A., Cerf, M., Fried, I., Koch, C., and Quian Quiroga, R. (2009) Responses of Human Medial Temporal Lobe Neurons Are Modulated by Stimulus Repetition , J Neurophysiol, 103(1), 97-107 Pubmed
Quian Quiroga, R., Kraskov, A., Koch, C., and Fried, I. (2009) Explicit encoding of multimodal percepts by single neurons in the human brain. Current Biology, 19(15), 1308-13 Pubmed
Mormann, F., Kornblith, S., Quian Quiaroga, R., Kraskov, A., Cerf, M., Fried, I., and Koch, C. (2008) Latency and selectivity of single neurons indicate hierarchical processing in the human medial temporal lobe, J Neurosci, 28, 8865-8872 Pubmed free text
Kraskov, A., Quian Quiroga, R., Reddy, L., Fried, I., and Koch, C. (2007) Local Field Potentials and Spikes in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe are Selective to Image Category, J Cogn Neurosci, 19, 479-492 free pdf
Kreuz, T., Mormann, F., Andrzejak, R.G., Kraskov, A., Lehnertz, K., and Grassberger, P. (2007) Measuring synchronization in coupled model systems: A comparison of different approaches. Physica D, 225(1), 29-42
Waydo, S., Kraskov, A., Quian Quiroga, R., Fried, I., and Koch, C. (2006) Sparse representation in the human medial temporal lobe. J Neurosci, 26, 10232-10234 Free full text
Kreiman, G., Hung, C. P., Kraskov, A., Quian Quiroga, R., Poggio, T., and
DiCarlo, J. J. (2006) Object selectivity of local field potentials and spikes
in the macaque inferior temporal cortex, Neuron, 49, 433-445 doi
