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Ben Willmore
PhD, MSc, MA (Cantab)
Departmental Lecturer
I am interested in how neurons represent and process sensory information, particularly under naturalistic conditions. To investigate this, I use electrophysiological recording to measure how neurons respond to complex sounds, and then build computational models to understand those responses.
I obtained my PhD at Cambridge University with David Tolhurst, working on computational models of neurons in the visual system. I continued this work as a postdoc with Jack Gallant at the University of California Berkeley. In 2006, I moved to Oxford to work in Andy King's group, to work on neural coding in the auditory system.
I lecture for the MSc in Neuroscience and the BA in Biomedical Sciences. I also give tutorials on sensory neuroscience and neural coding to second- and third-year medical students.
Recent publications
Subcortical origin of nonlinear sound encoding in auditory cortex.
Journal article
Lohse M. et al, (2024), Curr Biol, 34, 3405 - 3415.e5
Hierarchical temporal prediction captures motion processing along the visual pathway.
Journal article
Singer Y. et al, (2023), Elife, 12
Adaptation in auditory processing.
Journal article
Willmore BDB. and King AJ., (2023), Physiol Rev, 103, 1025 - 1058
Simple transformations capture auditory input to cortex.
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Rahman M. et al, (2020), Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 117, 28442 - 28451