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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
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Subcortical origin of nonlinear sound encoding in auditory cortex.
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Lohse M. et al, (2024), Curr Biol, 34, 3405 - 3415.e5
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Hierarchical temporal prediction captures motion processing along the visual pathway.
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Singer Y. et al, (2023), Elife, 12
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Adaptation in auditory processing.
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Willmore BDB. and King AJ., (2022), Physiol Rev
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Cortical adaptation to sound reverberation.
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Ivanov AZ. et al, (2022), Elife, 11
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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