Kenneth D. Harris is a

neuroscientist A neuroscientist (or neurobiologist) is a scientist specializing in neuroscience that deals with the anatomy and function of neurons, Biological neural network, neural circuits, and glia, and their Behavior, behavioral, biological, and psycholo ...

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. He is most known for his contributions to the understanding of the neural code used by vast populations of

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s. Among his discoveries is the finding that populations in sensory areas of the brain also code for body movements. Harris has contributed to the development of silicon probes and most recently of Neuropixels probes. With these probes, he and his team discovered that engagement in a task activates neurons throughout the brain. Harris obtained his PhD from UCL in the laboratory of Michael Recce, and did his postdoctoral studies at

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in the laboratory of Gyorgy Buzsaki. He is a Professor of Quantitative Neuroscience at the

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, where he co-directs the Cortical Processing Laboratory with

Matteo Carandini Matteo Carandini (born 1967) is a neuroscientist who studies the visual system. He is currently a professor at University College London, where he co-directs the Cortical Processing Laboratory with Kenneth D Harris. He studies the visual cortex ...

. Harris is a founding member of the

International Brain Laboratory The International Brain Laboratory (IBL) is a collaborative research group that aims to develop the first global model of decision making in mice. In its first phase, IBL members are recording 100,000's of neurons across virtually all brain structur ...

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