Alonso, J. M., C. I. Yeh and C. R. Stoelzel (2008) Visual stimuli modulate precise synchronous firing within the thalamus (special issue in honor of Mircea Steriade). Thalamus and Related Systems (published online by Cambridge University Press on 04 January 2008).

Chen, Y., Martinez-Conde, S., Macknik, S.L., Bereshpolova, Y., Swadlow, H.A., Alonso, J.M. (2008) Task difficulty modulates the activity of specific neuronal populations in primary visual cortex. Nat Neurosci 11 (8): 975-982. (Featured in News and Views by John Reynolds).

Jin, J. Z., C. Weng, C. I. Yeh, J. A. Gordon, E. S. Ruthazer, M. P. Stryker, H. A. Swadlow and J. M. Alonso (2008). On and off domains of geniculate afferents in cat primary visual cortex. Nat Neurosci 11(1): 88-94. (Cover of this Nature Neuroscience issue).

Butts, D.A., C. Weng, J. Jin, C.I. Yeh, N.A. Lesica, J.M. Alonso and G.B. Stanley (2007) Temporal precision in the neural code and the time scales of natural vision. Nature 449:92-95.

Lesica, N. A., J. Jin, C. Weng, C. I. Yeh, D. A. Butts, G. B. Stanley and J. M. Alonso (2007) Adaptation to Stimulus Contrast and Correlations during Natural Visual Stimulation.Neuron 55(3): 479-91.

Alonso, J. M. (2007) El tálamo y la visión. Investigación y Ciencia (Scientific American in Spain) 22: 26-32 .

Alonso, J. M. (2006). Neurons find strength through synchrony in the brain. Science 312: 1604-05.

Alonso, J. M. (2006). La vía visual cien años después de Ramón y Cajal. Santiago Ramón y Cajal. Cien años después. A. G. y. A. Ferrús. les Illes Balears, Editorial Pirámide - Universitat de les Illes Balears: 233-255.

Alonso, J. M., C. I. Yeh, C. Weng and C. Stoelzel (2006). Chapter 1 Retinogeniculate connections: a balancing act between connection specificity and receptive field diversity. Prog Brain Res 154: 3-13.

Bezdudnaya, T., M. Cano, Y. Bereshpolova, C. R. Stoelzel, J. M. Alonso and H. A. Swadlow (2006). Thalamic Burst Mode and Inattention in the Awake LGNd. Neuron 49(3): 421-32.

Cano, M., T. Bezdudnaya, H. A. Swadlow and J. M. Alonso (2006). Brain state and contrast sensitivity in the awake visual thalamus. Nat Neurosci 9(10): 1240-2.

Lesica, N. A., C. Weng, J. Jin, C. I. Yeh, J. M. Alonso and G. B. Stanley (2006). Dynamic Encoding of Natural Luminance Sequences by LGN Bursts. PLoS Biol 4(7): e209.

Veredas FJ, Vico FJ, Alonso JM (2006) Evolving networks of integrate and fire neurons. Neurocomputing 69:1561-1569.

Alonso, J. M. (2005). Building better models of visual cortical receptive fields. Neuron 46(6): 842-4.

Alonso, J. M. and H. A. Swadlow (2005). Thalamocortical specificity and the synthesis of sensory cortical receptive fields. J Neurophysiol 94(1): 26-32.

Martinez, L. M., Q. Wang, R. C. Reid, C. Pillai, J. M. Alonso, F. T. Sommer and J. A. Hirsch (2005). Receptive field structure varies with layer in the primary visual cortex. Nat Neurosci 8(3): 372-9.

Veredas, F. J., F. J. Vico and J. M. Alonso (2005). Factors determining the precision of the correlated firing generated by a monosynaptic connection in the cat visual pathway. J Physiol 567(Pt 3): 1057-78.

Weng, C., C. I. Yeh, C. R. Stoelzel and J. M. Alonso (2005). Receptive field size and response latency are correlated within the cat visual thalamus. J Neurophysiol 93(6): 3537-47.

Veredas, F. J., F. J. Vico and J. M. Alonso (2004). A computational tool to simulate correlated activity in neural circuits. J Neurosci Methods 136(1): 23-32.

Hirsch, J. A., L. M. Martinez, C. Pillai, J. M. Alonso, Q. Wang and F. T. Sommer (2003). Functionally distinct inhibitory neurons at the first stage of visual cortical processing. Nat Neurosci 6(12): 1300-8.

Martinez, L. M. and J. M. Alonso (2003). Complex receptive fields in primary visual cortex. Neuroscientist 9(5): 317-31.

Yeh, C. I., C. R. Stoelzel and J. M. Alonso (2003). Two different types of Y cells in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus. J Neurophysiol 90(3): 1852-64.

Alonso, J.M. (2002) Neural connections and receptive field properties in the primary visual cortex. The Neuroscientist 8: 443-456.

Alonso-Lopez, J.M. (2002) Visual pathways: a set of time saving strategies. Revista de Neurologia 35: 446-451.

Reid, R. C., Alonso, J. M., and Usrey, W. M. (2002). Integration of thalamic inputs to cat primary visual cortex. In: The cat primary visual cortex (B.R. Payne and A. Peters). Academic Press. 8: 319-337.

Martinez, L.M., Alonso, J.M., Reid, R.C., Hirsch, J.A. (2002) Laminar processing of stimulus orientation in cat visual cortex. Journal of Physiology 540: 321-333.

Hirsch, J.A., Martinez, L.M.,Alonso, Desai, K., Pillai, C., Pierre, C. (2002) Synaptic physiology of the flow of information in the cat's visual cortex in vivo. Journal of Physiology 540: 335-350.

Alonso, J.M., Usrey, W.M., Reid, R.C. (2001). Rules of connectivity between geniculate cells and simple cells in cat primary visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 21(11):4002-4015.

Click here to view a movie showing the spatio-temporal receptive fields of a geniculate and simple cell that are monosynaptically connected. The receptive field of the simple isrepresented as a transparent wireframe (on subregions in pink and off subregions in blue). The receptive field of the geniculate cell is shown as a solid volume (On-center in orange, off-surround and rebound in blue). Note: Windows users must have Windows Media Player, RealPlayer or Quicktime to view this file, Mac users will need Quicktime. This movie was created by Yolanda do Campo using Maya Design Software.

Alonso, J.M., Martinez, L.M. (2001). Construction of complex receptive fields in primary visual cortex. Neuron (32):1-11.

Click here to view a stereogram showing the receptive fields of a geniculate cell, simple cell and complex cell that are serially connected (geniculate cell-->simple cell-->complex cell, Alonso and Martinez, 1998)

Usrey, W.M., Alonso, J.M., Reid, R.C. (2000). Synaptic interactions between thalamic inputs to simple cells in cat visual cortex. Journal of Neuroscience (20):5461-5467.

Cechi, G.A., Sigman, M., Alonso, J.M., Martinez, L., Chialvo, D., Magnasco, M.O. (2000) Noise in neurons is message dependent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (97): 5557-5561.

Alonso, J.M., Martinez, L.M. (1998). Functional connectivity between simple cells and complex cells in cat striate cortex. Nature Neuroscience 1(5): 395-403.

Hirsch, J.A., Alonso, J.M., Reid, R.C., Martinez, L.M. (1998). Synaptic integration in striate cortical simple cells. Journal of Neuroscience 18(22): 9517-28.

Hirsch, J.A., Gallagher, C.A., Alonso, J.M., Martinez, L.M. (1998). Ascending projections of simple and complex cells in layer 6 of cat striate cortex. Journal of Neuroscience 18(19): 8086-94.

Dan, Y., Alonso, J.M., Usrey, W.M., Reid, R.C. (1998). Coding of visual information by precisely correlated spikes in the lateral geniculate nucleus. Nature Neuroscience 1(6): 501-507.

Click here to see a movie of the white noise stimulus that is frequently used in our studies to map the receptive fields by reverse correlation. This movie was created by Monty Escabí, Jose Antonio Aguilar and Jose-Manuel Alonso.