Thomas A. Cleland
Assistant Professor
- email : tac29@cornell.edu
- fax : 607-255-8433
- phone : 607-255-8099
- 244 Uris Hall
- Cornell University
- Ithaca NY 14853-7601
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Office Hours:
By appointment
Interests
My research concerns how complex cognitive and perceptual phenomena can arise from, and be regulated by, cellular and neural circuit properties. Primarily using the sense of smell (olfaction), my students, colleagues, and I ask how learning, memory, expectation, and like processes shape the transformations performed on sensory inputs by relatively peripheral (i.e., experimentally accessible) cortical circuitry, and how these different transformations in turn influence behavior and subsequent learning. We triangulate on these questions using a range of techniques including electrophysiology, pharmacology, behavior and behavior genetics, and biophysically constrained computational modeling.
Behavioral & Evolutionary Neuroscience
Perception, Cognition & Development
Selected Publications
- Cleland TA (2008) The construction of olfactory representations. In: Mechanisms of information processing in the brain: encoding of information in neural populations, Holscher C, Munk M, eds. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press. In press. PDF
- Cleland TA (2008). Contrast enhancement. In: Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Binder MD, Hirokawa N, Windhorst U, Hirsch MC, eds. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. In press.
- Cleland TA, Johnson BA, Leon M, Linster C (2007) Relational representation in the olfactory system. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 104(6):1953-1958. Link PDF
- Cleland TA, Linster C (2007) Olfactory systems theory. In: New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Squire L, Albright T, Bloom F, Gage F, Spitzer N, eds. New York: Elsevier. In press. PDF
- Rubin DB, Cleland TA (2006) Dynamical mechanisms of odor processing in olfactory bulb mitral cells. J. Neurophysiology 96(2):555-568. Link PDF
- Wei CJ, Linster C, Cleland TA (2006) Dopamine D2 receptor activation modulates perceived odor intensity. Behavioral Neuroscience 120(2):393-400. Link PDF
- Cleland TA, Sethupathy P (2006) Non-topographical contrast enhancement in the olfactory bulb. BMC Neuroscience 7:7 (24 Jan 2006). Open Access. Link PDF
- Cleland TA, Linster C (2005) Computation in the olfactory system. Chemical Senses 30(9):801-813. Open Access. Link PDF
- Schoenfeld TA, Cleland TA (2005) The anatomical logic of smell. Trends in Neurosciences 28(11):620-627. Link PDF
- Cleland TA, Morse A, Yue EL, Linster C (2002) Behavioral models of odor similarity. Behavioral Neuroscience 116(2):222-231. Link PDF
Links
- Up to date publications list.
Performs an Entrez/PubMed search (includes peer-reviewed papers but omits book chapters).
- CPL wiki.
Technical and informational wiki for the Computational Physiology Laboratory. Access is restricted to CPL members.
- BCS Journal Club.
A weekly journal club focusing on contemporary topics in behavioral, computational, and systems neuroscience.
- Behavioral phenotyping core.
I administer a core facility for behavioral analysis in mice. Please email me to express any current or future interest, or read the overview.
- KTH Masters' Program.
Two-year masters' program in computational and systems biology, conducted in English, located in Stockholm, Sweden. Tuition is free. Download poster.
- GOSPEL workshop 2008.
The European GOSPEL 'network of excellence' in artificial olfaction sponsored this workshop, "From Biological Olfaction to Sensor Technology."
- Psychology 434/634: Sensory Construction
Spring 2008 information. This course investigates how sensory perception is constructed from the physical features of stimuli, the properties of sensors and neural circuits, and the active allocation of cognitive and physiological resources. - Psychology 444: Neural Computation
(also Neurobiology and Behavior 444).
Spring 2007 information. This is a hands-on course in the computer simulation of neurons and neural circuitry, covering both theory and practice.
updated on Tuesday, Jan 6 2009 @ 3:14pm