Parvin Zarei Eskikand

Computational simulations and Ca2 imaging reveal that slow synaptic depolarizations (slow EPSPs) inhibit fast EPSP evoked action potentials for most of their time course in enteric neurons

Parvin Zarei Eskikand, Katerina Koussoulas, Rachel M Gwynne, Joel C Bornstein

Journal article  |  2022  |  PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Transmission between neurons in the extensive enteric neural networks of the gut involves synaptic potentials with vastly differen..

On the benefit of overparameterization in state reconstruction

JF Haderlein, IMY Mareels, ADH Peterson, PZ Eskikand, AN Burkitt, DB Grayden

Conference Proceedings  |  2021  |  Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

The identification of states and parameters from noisy measurements of a dynamical system is of great practical significance and h..

Adaptive Surround Modulation of MT Neurons: A Computational Model

Parvin Zarei Eskikand, Tatiana Kameneva, Anthony N Burkitt, David B Grayden, Michael R Ibbotson

Journal article  |  2020  |  FRONTIERS IN NEURAL CIRCUITS

The classical receptive field (CRF) of a spiking visual neuron is defined as the region in the visual field that can generate spik..

Pattern Motion Processing by MT Neurons

Parvin Zarei Eskikand, Tatiana Kameneva, Anthony N Burkitt, David B Grayden, Michael R Ibbotson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Frontiers in Neural Circuits

Based on stimulation with plaid patterns, neurons in the Middle Temporal (MT) area of primate visual cortex are divided into two t..

Su1305 – Serotonin Acting Via 5-Ht3 Receptors Mediates Fast Excitatory Synaptic Potentials in Many Neurons that Regulate Motility in Mouse Proximal Colon

Rachel Gwynne, Katerina Koussoulas, Parvin Zarei Eskikand, Joel C Bornstein

Journal article  |  2019  |  Gastroenterology

A biologically-based computational model of visual cortex that overcomes the X-junction illusion

Parvin Zarei Eskikand, Tatiana Kameneva, Michael R Ibbotson, Anthony N Burkitt, David B Grayden

Journal article  |  2018  |  NEURAL NETWORKS

The end-points of a moving bar (intrinsic terminators) contain unambiguous information that can be used to extract the bar's corre..

A Possible Role for End-Stopped V1 Neurons in the Perception of Motion: A Computational Model

Parvin Zarei Eskikand, Tatiana Kameneva, Michael R Ibbotson, Anthony N Burkitt, David B Grayden

Journal article  |  2016  |  PLOS ONE

We present a model of the early stages of processing in the visual cortex, in particular V1 and MT, to investigate the potential r..