Articles

Khamiss, D.C.*, Lempel, A.A.*, Nanfito, B.R., Nielsen, K.J., Early development of direction selectivity in higher visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 46(14): e1153252026, 2026. *, equal contributions.

Bourne, J.A., Cichy, R.M., Kiorpes, L., Morrone, M.C., Arcaro, M.J., Nielsen, K.J., Development of higher-level vision: A network perspective. Journal of Neuroscience 44 (40):e1291242024, 2024.

Barao, S., Xu, Y., Llongueras, J.P., Vistein, R., Goff, L., Nielsen, K.J., Bae, B.-I., Smith, R.S., Walsk, C.A., Stein-O’Brien, G., Mueller, U., Conserved transcriptional regulation by BRN1 and BRN2 in neocortical progenitors drives mammalian neural specification and neocortical expansion. Nature Communications 15, Article number 8043, 2024.

Nielsen, K.J., Connor, C.E., How shape perception works, in 2D and 3D. Annual Review of Vision Science 10: 47-68, 2024.

Yu C-H., Yu Y., Adist L.M., Chang J.T., Barchini J., Moberly, A.H., Benisty, H., Kim, J., Young, B.K., Heng, K., Farinella, D.M., Leikvoll, A., Pavan, R., Vistein, R., Nanfito, B.R., Hildebrand, D.G.C., Otero-Coronel, S., Vaziri, A., Goldberg, J.L., Ricci, A.J., Fitzpatrick, D, Cardin, J.A., Higley, M.J., Smith, G.B., Kara, P., Nielsen, K.J., Smith, I.T., LaVere Smith, S., The Cousa objective: a long working distance air objective for multiphoton imaging in vivo. Nature Methods 21: 132-141, 2023.

Emonds A.M.X., Srinath R., Nielsen K.J.*, Connor, C.E.*, Object representation in a gravitational reference frame. eLife 12:e81701; 2023. *, shared senior author.

Ling J.P., […] , Smith J.J., Vistein R., […] Nielsen K.J., […] Blackshaw S., Cell-specific regulation of gene expression using splicing-dependent frameshifting. Nature communications 13: 5773, 2022.

Lempel A.A., Nielsen K.J., Development of visual motion integration involves coordination of multiple cortical stages. eLife 10:e59898; 2021.

Srinath, R., Emonds, A., Wang, Q., Lempel, A.A., Dunn-Weiss, E., Connor, C.E.*, Nielsen, K.J., Early emergence of solid shape coding in natural and deep network vision. Current Biology 31: 51-65, 2021. *, shared senior author.
[Preview: Leopold, D.A., Afraz, A., Neurophysiology: The three-dimensional building blocks of object vision. Current Biology 31: R9-R11, 2021.]

Macknik, S., Alexander, R., Caballero, O., Chanovas, J., Nielsen, K.J., Nishimura, N., Schaffer, C., Slovin, H., Babayoff, A., Barak, R., Tang, S., Ju, N., Yazdan-Shahmorad, A., Alonso, J.M., Malinskiy, E., Martinez-Conde, S., Advanced Circuit and Cellular Imaging Methods in Non-Human Primates. Journal of Neuroscience 39(42): 8267-8274, 2019.

Dunn-Weiss, E., Nummela, S.U., Lempel, A.A., Law, J., Ledley, J., Salvino, P., Nielsen, K.J., Visual motion and form integration in the behaving ferret. eNeuro 6(4): ENEURO.0228-19, 2019.

Lempel, A.A., Nielsen, K.J., Ferrets as a model for higher-level visual motion processing. Current Biology 29: 179-191, 2019.

Nauhaus, I*., Nielsen, K.J.*, Callaway, E.M., Efficient receptive field tiling in primate V1. Neuron 91(4): 893-904, 2016. *, equal contributions.
[Preview: Alonso, J.M., The Geometry of Visual Cortical Maps. Neuron 91(4): 716-718, 2016.]

Nauhaus , I., Nielsen, K.J., Building maps from maps in primary visual cortex. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 24: 1-6, 2014.

Nauhaus, I.*, Nielsen, K.J.*, Disney, A.A., Callaway, E.M., Orthogonal micro-organization of orientation and spatial frequency in primate primary visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience 15(12): 1683-1690, 2012. *, equal contributions.

Nielsen, K.J., Callaway, E.M., Krauzlis, R.J., Viral vector-based reversible neuronal inactivation and behavioral manipulation in the macaque monkey, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 6:48. DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2012.00048, 2012.

Nauhaus, I., Nielsen, K.J., Callaway, E.M., Nonlinearity of two-photon Ca2+ imaging yields distorted measurements of tuning for V1 neuronal populations. Journal of Neurophysiology 107(3): 923-936, 2012.

Marshel, J.H., Mori, T., Nielsen, K.J., Callaway, E.M., Targeting single neuronal networks for gene expression and cell labeling in vivo. Neuron 67(4): 562-574, 2010.

Nielsen, K.J., Logothetis, N.K., Rainer, G., Object features used by humans and monkeys to identify rotated shapes. Journal of Vision 8(2): Article 9, 1-15, 2008.

Nielsen K.J. and Callaway, E.M., More than a feeling: sensation from cortical stimulation. Nature Neuroscience 11(1): 10-11, 2008.

Nielsen, K.J. and Rainer, G., Object recognition: Similar visual strategies of birds and mammals. Current Biology 17(5): R174-R176, 2007.

Nielsen, K.J., Logothetis, N.K., Rainer, G., Dissociation between LFP and spiking activity in macaque inferior temporal cortex reveals diagnosticity-based encoding of complex objects. Journal of Neuroscience 26(38), 9639-9645, 2006.

Nielsen, K.J., Logothetis, N.K., Rainer, G., Discrimination strategies of human and rhesus monkeys for complex visual displays. Current Biology 16, 814-820, 2006.

Kayser, C., Nielsen, K.J., Logothetis, N.K., Fixations in natural scenes: an interaction of image saliency and content. Vision Research 46(16), 2535-2545, 2006.

Ghazanfar, A.A., Nielsen, K., Logothetis, N.K., Eye movements of monkey observers viewing vocalizing conspecifics. Cognition 101(3): 515-529, 2006.

Book Chapters

Nielsen, K.J., Two-photon calcium imaging in the macaque monkey. In: Advances in multineuronal monitoring of brain activity, P. Kara, ed., Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience (2014).

Nielsen, K.J. and Rainer, G., Using spikes and local field potentials to unravel computational mechanisms in monkey cortex. In: Information processing by neuronal populations, C. Hölscher and M. Munk, ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 350-362, 2007.