Newcastle University

Introduction

I am a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Alexander Thiele. Our research focuses on cognitive modulation of neuronal activity in striate and extrastriate visual areas.

Background

Neurophysiology, visual Psychophysics, comparative Zoology

Qualifications

Dr. rer. nat (PhD), 2004 at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, with Prof. Dr. K.-P. Hoffmann
Diplom Biology (MSc), 2000 at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Vordiplom Biology (BSc), 1997 at Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

Memberships

Society for Neuroscience

Languages

English, German

• Bartolo MJ, Gieselmann MA, Vuksanovic V, Hunter D, Sun L, Chen X, Delicato LS, Thiele A. Stimulus-induced dissociation of neuronal firing rates and local field potential gamma power and its relationship to the blood oxygen level-dependent signal in macaque primary visual cortex. European Journal of Neuroscience 2011, 34(11), 1857-1870.
• Chalk M, Herrero JL, Gieselmann MA, Delicato LS, Gotthardt S, Thiele A. Attention Reduces Stimulus-Driven Gamma Frequency Oscillations and Spike Field Coherence in V1. Neuron 2010, 66(1), 114-125.
• Dannenberg S, Gieselmann MA, Kruse W, Hoffmann KP. Influence of visually guided tracking arm movements on single cell activity in area MT. Experimental Brain Research 2009, 199(3-4), 355-368.
• Herrero JL, Roberts MJ, Delicato LS, Gieselmann MA, Dayan P, Thiele A. Acetylcholine contributes through muscarinic receptors to attentional modulation in V1. Nature 2008. , 454(7208), 1110-1114.
• Gieselmann MA, Thiele A. Comparison of spatial integration and surround suppression characteristics in spiking activity and the local field potential in macaque V1. European Journal of Neuroscience 2008, 28(3), 447-459.
• Roberts M, Delicato LS, Herrero J, Gieselmann MA, Thiele A. Attention alters spatial integration in macaque V1 in an eccentricity-dependent manner. Nature Neuroscience 2007, 10(11), 1483-1491.
• Thiele A, Delicato LS, Roberts MJ, Gieselmann MA. A novel electrode-pipette design for simultaneous recording of extracellular spikes and iontophoretic drug application in awake behaving monkeys. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 2006, 158(2), 207-211.