Ph.D. Thesis Dissertation: Statistical models of neural coding in motor cortex (pdf) Advisors: David Mumford, Michael J. Black   Neural Coding (2006 - Present) Wu, W., Mast, T., Ziembko, C., Breza, J., and Contreras, R. J., "Statistical analysis and decoding of neural activity in the rodent geniculate ganglion using a metric-based inference system", PLoS ONE, 2013, In Press. Wu, W. and Srivastava, A., "Estimating summary statistics in the spike-train space", Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 31, pp. 391-340, 2013. (pdf) Lawhern, V., Hatsopoulos, N. G., and Wu, W., "Coupling time decoding and trajectory decoding using a target-included model in the motor cortex", Neurocomputing, vol. 82, pp. 117-126, 2012. (pdf) Wu, W. and Srivastava, A., "Estimation of a mean template from spike-train data", 34th Annual Conference of IEEE EMBS, 2012. (pdf) Wu, W. and Srivastava, A., "An information-geometric framework for statistical inferences in the neural spike train space", Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 31, pp. 725-748, 2011. (pdf) (software) Lawhern, V., Nikonov, A. A., Wu, W., and Contreras, R. J., "Spike rate and spike timing contributions to coding taste quality information in rat periphery", Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, vol. 5, art. 18, pp. 1-14, 2011. (pdf) Wu, W. and Srivastava, A., "Towards statistical summaries of spike train data", Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 195, pp. 107-110, 2011. (pdf) Lawhern, V., Wu, W., Hatsopoulos, N. G., and Paninski, L., "Population decoding of motor cortical activity using a genralized linear model with hidden states", Journal of Neuroscience Methods , vol. 189, pp. 267-280, 2010. (pdf) Paninski, L., Ahmadian, Y., Ferreira, D., Koyama, S., Rahnama Rad, K., Vidne, M., Vogelstein, J., and Wu, W., "A new look at state-space models for neural data", Journal of Computational Neuroscience, vol. 29, pp. 107-126, 2010. (pdf) Wu, W., Kulkarni, J. E., Hatsopoulos, N. G., and Paninski, L., "Neural decoding of hand motion using a linear state-space model with hidden states", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 17, pp. 370-378, 2009. (pdf) Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Real-time decoding of non-stationary neural activity in motor cortex", IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 16, pp. 213-222, 2008. (pdf) Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Target-included model and hybrid decoding of stereotyped hand movement in the motor cortex", The second IEEE RAS / EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, Scottsdale, AZ, October 19-22, 2008. (pdf) Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Coordinate system representations of movement direction in the premotor cortex", Experimental Brain Research, vol. 176, pp. 652-657, 2007. (pdf) Chi, Z., Wu W., Haga Z., Hatsopoulos, N., and Margoliash D., "Identifying neuronal activity pattern: patching local temporal information", Journal of Neurophysiology vol. 97, pp. 1221-1235, 2007. (pdf) Wu, W. and Hatsopoulos, N., "Evidence against a single coordinate system representation in the motor cortex ", Experimental Brain Research, vol. 175, pp. 197-210, 2006. (pdf) Wu,W., Gao, Y., Bienenstock, E., Donoghue, J. P., and Black, M. J., "Bayesian population decoding of motor cortical activity using a Kalman filter", Neural Computation, vol. 18, pp. 80-118, 2006. (pdf)   Functional Data Analysis Tucker, J. D., Wu, W., and Srivastava, A., "Analysis of signals under compositional noise with appli- cations to SONAR data", IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2103, In Press. Kurtek, S., Wu, W., and G. Christensen, and Srivastava, A., "Segmentation, alignment and statis- tical analysis of biosignals with application to disease classification", Journal of Applied Statistics, 2013, In Press Tucker, J. D., Wu, W., and Srivastava, A. "Generative models for functional data using phase and amplitude separation", Computational Statistics and Data Analysis , 2012, In Press. Tucker, J. D., Wu, W., and Srivastava, A. "Analysis of signals under compositional noise with applications to SONAR data", Oceans '12 MTS/IEEE Conference , Hampton Roads, VA, 2012. (pdf) Kurtek, S., Srivastava, A., and Wu, W. "Signal estimation under random time-warpings and nonlinear signal alignment", Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) , 2011. (pdf)   Birdsong Production Daou, A., Johnson, F., Wu, W., and Bertram, R., "A computational tool for automated large-scale analysis and measurement of bird-song syntax", Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 210, no. 2, pp. 147-160, 2012. (pdf) Thompson, J. A., Basista, M., Wu, W., Bertram, R., and Johnson, F., "Dual pre-motor contribution to songbird syllable variation", Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 322-330, 2011. (pdf) Wu, W., Thompson, J. A., Bertram, R., and Johnson, F., "A statistical method for quantifying songbird phonology and syntax", Journal of Neuroscience Methods, vol. 174, no. 1, pp. 147-154, 2008. (pdf) (software) Thompson, J. A., Wu, W., Bertram, R., and Johnson, F., "Auditory-dependent vocal recovery in adult male zebra finches is facilitated by lesion of a forebrain pathway that includes the basal ganglia", Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 27, no. 45, pp. 12308-12320, 2007. (pdf)