Newcastle University

Research Interests

see web site at www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/alex.thiele

• Herrero JL, Gieselmann MA, Sanayei M, Thiele A. Attention-induced variance and noise correlation reduction in macaque V1 is mediated by NMDA receptors. Neuron 2013. In Press.
• Thiele A, Herrero JL, Distler C, Hoffmann KP. Contribution of Cholinergic and GABAergic Mechanisms to Direction Tuning, Discriminability, Response Reliability, and Neuronal Rate Correlations in Macaque Middle Temporal Area. Journal of Neuroscience 2012, 32(47), 16602-16615.
• Chen X, Hoffmann KP, Albright TD, Thiele A. Effect of feature-selective attention on neuronal responses in macaque area MT. Journal of Neurophysiology 2012, 107(5), 1530-1543.
• Thiele A. NMDA receptors figure it out. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2012, 109(27), 10749-10750.
• Thiele A. Stay focussed - muffle that resonant bass!. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2012, 16(4), 194-195.
• Deco G, Thiele A. Cholinergic control of cortical network interactions enables feedback-mediated attentional modulation. European Journal of Neuroscience 2011, 34(1), 146-157.
• Vuksanovic V, Bartolo M, Hunter D, Sun L, Thiele A. fMRI based Granger causality as a measure of effective connectivity in macaque visual cortex. In: BC11: Computational Neuroscience & Neurotechnology Bernstein Conference & Neurex Annual Meeting 2011. 2011, Freiburg, Germany: Frontiers Media S.A.
• Baumann S, Griffiths TD, Sun L, Petkov CI, Thiele A, Rees A. Orthogonal representation of sound dimensions in the primate midbrain. Nature Neuroscience 2011, 14(4), 423-425.
• 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.
• 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. Reconstructing the World: Switching from Segmentation to Integration Allows Neurons in Area MT to Make "Sense" of the Visual Scene. Neuron 2007, 53(5), 623-625.
• Guo K, Robertson RG, Pulgarin M, Nevado A, Panzeri S, Thiele A, Young MP. Spatio-temporal prediction and inference by V1 neurons. European Journal of Neuroscience 2007, 26(4), 1045-1054.
• 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.
• Zinke W, Roberts MJ, Guo K, McDonald JS, Robertson R, Thiele A. Cholinergic modulation of response properties and orientation tuning of neurons in primary visual cortex of anaesthetized Marmoset monkeys. European Journal of Neuroscience 2006, 24(1), 314-328.
• Roberts MJ, Zinke W, Guo K, Robertson R, McDonald JS, Thiele A. Acetylcholine dynamically controls spatial integration in marmoset primary visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 2005, 93(4), 2062-2072.
• Riecansky I, Thiele A, Distler C, Hoffmann K-P. Chromatic sensitivity of neurones in area MT of the anaesthetised macaque monkey compared to human motion perception. Experimental Brain Research 2005, 167(4), 504-525.
• Pola G, Petersen RS, Thiele A, Young MP, Panzeri S. Data-robust tight lower bounds to the information carried by spike times of a neuronal population. Neural Computation 2005, 17(9), 1962-2005.
• Roberts M, Thiele A. Attention reduces spatial integration in primate primary visual cortex. In: Society for Neurosciences Spring Conference. 2004, San Diego, California, USA.
• Thiele A, Distler C, Korbmacher H, Hoffmann K-P. Contribution of inhibitory mechanisms to direction selectivity and response normalization in macaque middle temporal area. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2004, 101(26), 9810-9815.
• Thiele A. Perceptual learning: Is V1 up to the task?. Current Biology 2004, 14(16), R671-R673.
• Thiele A, Stoner G. Neuronal synchrony does not correlate with motion coherence in cortical area MT. Nature 2003, 421(6921), 366-370.
• Perrone JA, Thiele A. A model of speed tuning in MT neurons. Vision Research 2002, 42(8), 1035-1051.
• Thiele A. Attention reduces the impact of prior spatiotemporal information on perceptual judgments. Perception 2002, 31(supplement), 76-76.
• Thiele A, Rezec A, Dobkins KR. Chromatic input to motion processing in the absence of attention. Vision Research 2002, 42(11), 1395-1401.
• Hoffmann KP, Bremmer F, Thiele A, Distler C. Directional asymmetry of neurons in cortical areas MT and MST projecting to the NOT-DTN in macaques. Journal of Neurophysiology 2002, 87(4), 2113-2123.
• Thiele A, Henning P, Kubischik M, Hoffmann KP. Neural Mechanisms of Saccadic Suppression. Science 2002, 295(5564), 2460-2462.
• Thiele A, Albright TD, Hoffmann KP. Effects of feature selective attention on neuronal responses in macaque area MT. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr 2001, 31, 722.2.
• Thiele A, Hoffmann KP, Albright TD. Effects of feature-selective attention on neuronal responses in macaque area MT. In: PERCEPTION. 2001, 207 BRONDESBURY PARK, LONDON NW2 5JN, ENGLAND: PION LTD.
• Thiele A, Dobkins KR, Albright TD. Neural correlates of chromatic motion perception. Neuron 2001, 32(2), 351-358.
• Perrone JA, Thiele A. Speed skills: Measuring the visual speed analyzing properties of primate MT neurons. Nature Neuroscience 2001, 4(5), 526-532.
• Dobkins KR, Thiele A, Albright TD. Comparison of red-green equiluminance points in humans and macaques: evidence for different L:M cone ratios between species. Journal of the Optical Society of America (JOSA A) 2000, 17(3), 545-56.
• Thiele A, Dobkins KR, Albright TD. Neural correlates of contrast detection at threshold. Neuron 2000, 26(3), 715-724.
• Thiele A, Distler C, Hoffmann KP. Decision-related activity in the macaque dorsal visual pathway. European Journal of Neuroscience 1999, 11(6), 2044-2058.
• Thiele A, Dobkins KR, Albright TD. The contribution of color to motion processing in Macaque middle temporal area. Journal of Neuroscience 1999, 19(15), 6571-6587.
• F. Bremmer,U. J. Ilg,A. Thiele,C. Distler,K. P. Hoffmann. Eye position effects in monkey cortex. I. Visual and pursuit-related activity in extrastriate areas MT and MST. J Neurophysiol 1997, 77(2), 944-61.
• S. C. de Oliveira,A. Thiele,K. P. Hoffmann. Synchronization of neuronal activity during stimulus expectation in a direction discrimination task. J Neurosci 1997, 17(23), 9248-60.
• A. Thiele,F. Bremmer,U.J. Ilg,K.P. Hoffmann. Visual responses of neurons from areas V1 and MT in a monkey with late onset strabismus: A case study. Vision Res 1997, 37, 853-863.
• A. Thiele,R. Rubsamen,K. P. Hoffmann. Anatomical and physiological investigation of auditory input to the superior colliculus of the echolocating megachiropteran bat Rousettus aegyptiacus. Exp Brain Res 1996, 112(2), 223-36.
• L. Schlykowa,K. P. Hoffmann,F. Bremmer,A. Thiele,W. H. Ehrenstein. Monkey saccadic latency and pursuit velocity show a preference for upward directions of target motion. Neuroreport 1996, 7(2), 409-12.
• Thiele A, Hoffmann KP. Neuronal activity in MST and STPp, but not MT changes systematically with stimulus-independent decisions. Neuroreport 1996, 7(5), 971-976.
• M. Pekel,M. Lappe,F. Bremmer,A. Thiele,K. P. Hoffmann. Neuronal responses in the motion pathway of the macaque monkey to natural optic flow stimuli. Neuroreport 1996, 7(4), 884-8.
• M. Lappe,F. Bremmer,M. Pekel,A. Thiele,K.P. Hoffmann. Optic flow processing in monkey STS: A theoretical and experimental approach. Journal of Neuroscience 1996, 16, 6265-6285.