Margaret Livingstone

Marge Livingstone, Ph.D.

Takeda Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Development and selectivity of object-recognition circuitry in the Primate Brain

We ask how tuning properties of individual neurons in high-level visual areas come to be selective for complex visual objects the animals have encountered (or not) during their development, and how these neurons com to be clustered at a gross level in the brain. We use single-unit electrophysiology, functional MRI, behavior, and modeling.

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Learning and memory in Drosophila, studied with mutants.
Authors: Authors: Aceves-Piña EO, Booker R, Duerr JS, Livingstone MS, Quinn WG, Smith RF, Sziber PP, Tempel BL, Tully TP.
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol
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Thalamic inputs to cytochrome oxidase-rich regions in monkey visual cortex.
Authors: Authors: Livingstone MS, Hubel DH.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
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Effects of sleep and arousal on the processing of visual information in the cat.
Authors: Authors: Livingstone MS, Hubel DH.
Nature
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Biochemistry and ultrastructure of serotonergic nerve endings in the lobster: serotonin and octopamine are contained in different nerve endings.
Authors: Authors: Livingstone MS, Schaeffer SF, Kravitz EA.
J Neurobiol
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Amines and a peptide as neurohormones in lobsters: actions on neuromuscular preparations and preliminary behavioural studies.
Authors: Authors: Kravitz EA, Glusman S, Harris-Warrick RM, Livingstone MS, Schwarz T, Goy MF.
J Exp Biol
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Serotonin and octopamine produce opposite postures in lobsters.
Authors: Authors: Livingstone MS, Harris-Warrick RM, Kravitz EA.
Science
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Vision and Art: the Biology of Seeing
Authors: Authors: Margaret S Livingstone
2002.