Publications

Articles

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: in press, 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: in press, 2024.

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