Aaron R. Shifman

The paper shows that physiological noise enhances the ability of somatosensory cortex neurons to multiplex vibrotactile signal features by enabling both rate and temporal coding.

The paper develops a biophysical model of pacemaker neurons in weakly electric fish and validates it against experiments to show individual cell dynamics contribute to network precision.

The paper investigates how gap junctional connectivity enables rapid synchronization in a neural pacemaker network using computational models and graph theory.