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ZACHARY PITKOW

TitleAdjunct Associate Professor
InstitutionBaylor College of Medicine
DepartmentDepartment of Neuroscience
AddressOne Baylor Plaza
Houston, 77030
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    R01MH130597     (SHETH, SAMEER ANIL)Jun 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2028
    NIH
    Intracranial Investigation of Neural Circuity Underlying Human Mood
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator
    R01NS120407     (PITKOW, ZACHARY SAMUEL)Sep 30, 2020 - Jun 30, 2025
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    CRCNS: Neural computations for continuous control in virtual reality foraging
    Role: Principal Investigator
    U01NS094368     (PITKOW, ZACHARY SAMUEL)Sep 30, 2015 - Jun 30, 2020
    NIH
    Dynamic network computations for foraging in an uncertain environment
    Role: Principal Investigator
    R21DC014518     (ANGELAKI, DORA)Apr 1, 2015 - Mar 31, 2017
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    Cortical feedback to the vestibular brainstem
    Role: Co-Principal Investigator

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    1. Ding Z, Fahey PG, Papadopoulos S, Wang EY, Celii B, Papadopoulos C, Kunin AB, Chang A, Fu J, Ding Z, Patel S, Ponder K, Muhammad T, Bae JA, Bodor AL, Brittain D, Buchanan J, Bumbarger DJ, Castro MA, Cobos E, Dorkenwald S, Elabbady L, Halageri A, Jia Z, Jordan C, Kapner D, Kemnitz N, Kinn S, Lee K, Li K, Lu R, Macrina T, Mahalingam G, Mitchell E, Mondal SS, Mu S, Nehoran B, Popovych S, Schneider-Mizell CM, Silversmith W, Takeno M, Torres R, Turner NL, Wong W, Wu J, Yin W, Yu SC, Froudarakis E, Sinz F, Seung HS, Collman F, da Costa NM, Reid RC, Walker EY, Pitkow X, Reimer J, Tolias AS, Ding Z, Fahey PG, Papadopoulos S, Wang EY, Celii B, Papadopoulos C, Chang A, Kunin AB, Tran D, Fu J, Ding Z, Patel S, Ntanavara L, Froebe R, Ponder K, Muhammad T, Bae JA, Bodor AL, Brittain D, Buchanan J, Bumbarger DJ, Castro MA, Cobos E, Dorkenwald S, Elabbady L, Halageri A, Jia Z, Jordan C, Kapner D, Kemnitz N, Kinn S, Lee K, Li K, Lu R, Macrina T, Mahalingam G, Mitchell E, Mondal SS, Mu S, Nehoran B, Popovych S, Schneider-Mizell CM, Silversmith W, Takeno M, Torres R, Turner NL, Wong W, Wu J, Yin W, Yu SC, Yatsenko D, Froudarakis E, Sinz F, Josic K, Rosenbaum R, Seung HS, Collman F, da Costa NM, Reid RC, Walker EY, Pitkow X, Reimer J, Tolias AS, Ding Z, Fahey PG, Papadopoulos S, Wang EY, Celii B, Papadopoulos C, Chang A, Kunin AB, Tran D, Fu J, Ding Z, Patel S, Ntanavara L, Froebe R, Ponder K, Muhammad T, Alexander Bae J, Cobos E, Dorkenwald S, Elabbady L, Kemnitz N, Macrina T, Nehoran B, Schneider-Mizell CM, Silversmith W, Takeno M, Turner NL, Wu J, Yatsenko D, Froudarakis E, Sinz F, Josic K, Rosenbaum R, Sebastian Seung H, Collman F, da Costa NM, Clay Reid R, Walker EY, Pitkow X, Reimer J, Tolias AS. Functional connectomics reveals general wiring rule in mouse visual cortex. bioRxiv. 2024 Oct 14. PMID: 36993398; PMCID: PMC10054929.
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    2. Celii B, Papadopoulos S, Ding Z, Fahey PG, Wang E, Papadopoulos C, Kunin AB, Patel S, Bae JA, Bodor AL, Brittain D, Buchanan J, Bumbarger DJ, Castro MA, Cobos E, Dorkenwald S, Elabbady L, Halageri A, Jia Z, Jordan C, Kapner D, Kemnitz N, Kinn S, Lee K, Li K, Lu R, Macrina T, Mahalingam G, Mitchell E, Mondal SS, Mu S, Nehoran B, Popovych S, Schneider-Mizell CM, Silversmith W, Takeno M, Torres R, Turner NL, Wong W, Wu J, Yu SC, Yin W, Xenes D, Kitchell LM, Rivlin PK, Rose VA, Bishop CA, Wester B, Froudarakis E, Walker EY, Sinz F, Seung HS, Collman F, da Costa NM, Reid RC, Pitkow X, Tolias AS, Reimer J, Papadopoulos S, Kunin A, Sinz FH. NEURD offers automated proofreading and feature extraction for connectomics. bioRxiv. 2024 Sep 23. PMID: 36993282; PMCID: PMC10055177.
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    3. Wang EY, Fahey PG, Ponder K, Ding Z, Chang A, Muhammad T, Patel S, Ding Z, Tran D, Fu J, Papadopoulos S, Franke K, Ecker AS, Reimer J, Pitkow X, Sinz FH, Tolias AS, Wang EY, Fahey PG, Ding Z, Papadopoulos S, Ponder K, Weis MA, Chang A, Muhammad T, Patel S, Ding Z, Tran D, Fu J, Schneider-Mizell CM, Reid RC, Collman F, da Costa NM, Franke K, Ecker AS, Reimer J, Pitkow X, Sinz FH, Tolias AS, Wang EY, Fahey PG, Ding Z, Papadopoulos S, Ponder K, Weis MA, Chang A, Muhammad T, Patel S, Ding Z, Fu J, Schneider-Mizell CM, Reid RC, Collman F, da Costa NM, Franke K, Ecker AS, Reimer J, Pitkow X, Sinz FH, Tolias AS. Foundation model of neural activity predicts response to new stimulus types and anatomy. bioRxiv. 2024 Aug 31. PMID: 36993435; PMCID: PMC10055288.
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    4. Fu J, Shrinivasan S, Ponder K, Muhammad T, Ding Z, Wang E, Ding Z, Tran DT, Fahey PG, Papadopoulos S, Patel S, Reimer J, Ecker AS, Pitkow X, Haefner RM, Sinz FH, Franke K, Tolias AS, Fu J, Shrinivasan S, Baroni L, Ding Z, Fahey PG, Pierzchlewicz P, Ponder K, Froebe R, Ntanavara L, Muhammad T, Willeke KF, Wang E, Ding Z, Tran DT, Papadopoulos S, Patel S, Reimer J, Ecker AS, Pitkow X, Antolik J, Sinz FH, Haefner RM, Tolias AS, Franke K. Pattern completion and disruption characterize contextual modulation in the visual cortex. bioRxiv. 2024 May 09. PMID: 36993321; PMCID: PMC10054952.
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    5. MICrONS Consortium, Brittain D, Bumbarger DJ, Kapner D, Kinn S, Seshamani S, Suckow S, Torres R, Yin W, Castro MA, Halageri A, Jia Z, Jordan C, Kemnitz N, Lee K, Li K, Lu R, Mitchell E, Mondal SS, Mu S, Nehoran B, Popovych S, Silversmith W, Wong W, Wu J, Reimer J, Tolias AS, Schneider-Mizell CM, Bodor AL, Buchanan J, Elabbady L, Gamlin C, Mahalingam G, Takeno M, Dorkenwald S, Bae JA, Macrina T, Turner NL, Seung HS, Reid RC, Collman F, Ma?arico da Costa N. Cell-type-specific inhibitory circuitry from a connectomic census of mouse visual cortex. bioRxiv. 2024 Jan 06. PMID: 36747710; PMCID: PMC9900837.
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    6. Lakshminarasimhan KJ, Avila E, Pitkow X, Angelaki DE. Dynamical latent state computation in the male macaque posterior parietal cortex. Nat Commun. 2023 04 01; 14(1):1832. PMID: 37005470; PMCID: PMC10067966.
      Citations: 2     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    7. Li Z, Ortega Caro J, Rusak E, Brendel W, Bethge M, Anselmi F, Patel AB, Tolias AS, Pitkow X. Robust deep learning object recognition models rely on low frequency information in natural images. PLoS Comput Biol. 2023 03; 19(3):e1010932. PMID: 36972288; PMCID: PMC10079058.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    8. Ding Z, Tran DT, Ponder K, Cobos E, Ding Z, Fahey PG, Wang E, Muhammad T, Fu J, Cadena SA, Papadopoulos S, Patel S, Franke K, Reimer J, Sinz FH, Ecker AS, Pitkow X, Tolias AS. Bipartite invariance in mouse primary visual cortex. bioRxiv. 2023 Mar 16. PMID: 36993218; PMCID: PMC10055119.
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    9. Xiao J, Provenza NR, Asfouri J, Myers J, Mathura RK, Metzger B, Adkinson JA, Allawala AB, Pirtle V, Oswalt D, Shofty B, Robinson ME, Mathew SJ, Goodman WK, Pouratian N, Schrater PR, Patel AB, Tolias AS, Bijanki KR, Pitkow X, Sheth SA. Decoding Depression Severity From Intracranial Neural Activity. Biol Psychiatry. 2023 09 15; 94(6):445-453. PMID: 36736418; PMCID: PMC10394110.
      Citations: 1     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    10. Pitkow X. Algorithmic similarity depends continuously on the input distribution, not categorically on how inputs are generated. Trends Cogn Sci. 2023 03; 27(3):214-215. PMID: 36635179.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:HumansCells
    11. Karantzas N, Besier E, Ortega Caro J, Pitkow X, Tolias AS, Patel AB, Anselmi F. Understanding Robustness and Generalization of Artificial Neural Networks Through Fourier Masks. Front Artif Intell. 2022; 5:890016. PMID: 35903397; PMCID: PMC9314860.
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    12. Alefantis P, Lakshminarasimhan K, Avila E, Noel JP, Pitkow X, Angelaki DE. Sensory Evidence Accumulation Using Optic Flow in a Naturalistic Navigation Task. J Neurosci. 2022 07 06; 42(27):5451-5462. PMID: 35641186; PMCID: PMC9270913.
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    13. Kim J, Orhan E, Yoon K, Pitkow X. Two-Argument Activation Functions Learn Soft XOR Operations Like Cortical Neurons. IEEE Access. 2022; 10:58071-58080. PMID: 36339794; PMCID: PMC9634945.
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    14. Stavropoulos A, Lakshminarasimhan KJ, Laurens J, Pitkow X, Angelaki DE. Influence of sensory modality and control dynamics on human path integration. Elife. 2022 02 18; 11. PMID: 35179488; PMCID: PMC8856658.
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    15. Yang Q, Walker E, Cotton RJ, Tolias AS, Pitkow X. Revealing nonlinear neural decoding by analyzing choices. Nat Commun. 2021 11 16; 12(1):6557. PMID: 34785652; PMCID: PMC8595442.
      Citations:    Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    16. Kwon M, Daptardar S, Schrater P, Pitkow X. Inverse Rational Control with Partially Observable Continuous Nonlinear Dynamics. Adv Neural Inf Process Syst. 2020 Dec; 33:7898-7909. PMID: 34712038; PMCID: PMC8549572.
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    17. Wu Z, Kwon M, Daptardar S, Schrater P, Pitkow X. Rational thoughts in neural codes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 11 24; 117(47):29311-29320. PMID: 33229521; PMCID: PMC7703629.
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    18. Lakshminarasimhan KJ, Avila E, Neyhart E, DeAngelis GC, Pitkow X, Angelaki DE. Tracking the Mind's Eye: Primate Gaze Behavior during Virtual Visuomotor Navigation Reflects Belief Dynamics. Neuron. 2020 05 20; 106(4):662-674.e5. PMID: 32171388; PMCID: PMC7323886.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimals
    19. Walker EY, Sinz FH, Cobos E, Muhammad T, Froudarakis E, Fahey PG, Ecker AS, Reimer J, Pitkow X, Tolias AS. Inception loops discover what excites neurons most using deep predictive models. Nat Neurosci. 2019 12; 22(12):2060-2065. PMID: 31686023.
      Citations: 15     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    20. Pitkow X, Reimer J, Tolias AS, Sinz FH, Bethge M. Engineering a Less Artificial Intelligence. Neuron. 2019 09 25; 103(6):967-979. PMID: 31557461.
      Citations: 25     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    21. Giahi Saravani A, Forseth KJ, Tandon N, Pitkow X. Dynamic Brain Interactions during Picture Naming. eNeuro. 2019 Jul/Aug; 6(4). PMID: 31196941; PMCID: PMC6624411.
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    22. Kumar A, Wu Z, Pitkow X, Schrater P. Belief dynamics extraction. Cogsci. 2019 Jul; 2019:2058-2064. PMID: 33367289; PMCID: PMC7754614.
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    23. Lakshminarasimhan KJ, Pouget A, DeAngelis GC, Angelaki DE, Pitkow X. Inferring decoding strategies for multiple correlated neural populations. PLoS Comput Biol. 2018 09; 14(9):e1006371. PMID: 30248091; PMCID: PMC6188888.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    24. Subramaniyan M, Ecker AS, Patel SS, Cotton RJ, Pitkow X, Berens P, Tolias AS, Bethge M. Faster processing of moving compared with flashed bars in awake macaque V1 provides a neural correlate of the flash lag illusion. J Neurophysiol. 2018 11 01; 120(5):2430-2452. PMID: 30365390; PMCID: PMC6295525.
      Citations: 8     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    25. Lakshminarasimhan KJ, Petsalis M, Park H, DeAngelis GC, Pitkow X, Angelaki DE. A Dynamic Bayesian Observer Model Reveals Origins of Bias in Visual Path Integration. Neuron. 2018 07 11; 99(1):194-206.e5. PMID: 29937278; PMCID: PMC6190923.
      Citations: 16     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    26. Pitkow X, Angelaki DE. Inference in the Brain: Statistics Flowing in Redundant Population Codes. Neuron. 2017 Jun 07; 94(5):943-953. PMID: 28595050; PMCID: PMC5543692.
      Citations: 24     Fields:    Translation:Humans
    27. Pitkow X. Probability by Time. Neuron. 2016 Oct 19; 92(2):275-277. PMID: 27764660.
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    28. Kim HR, Pitkow X, Angelaki DE, DeAngelis GC. A simple approach to ignoring irrelevant variables by population decoding based on multisensory neurons. J Neurophysiol. 2016 09 01; 116(3):1449-67. PMID: 27334948; PMCID: PMC5040375.
      Citations: 20     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    29. Pitkow X, Liu S, Angelaki DE, DeAngelis GC, Pouget A. How Can Single Sensory Neurons Predict Behavior? Neuron. 2015 Jul 15; 87(2):411-23. PMID: 26182422; PMCID: PMC4683594.
      Citations: 65     Fields:    Translation:AnimalsCells
    30. Moreno-Bote R, Beck J, Kanitscheider I, Pitkow X, Latham P, Pouget A. Information-limiting correlations. Nat Neurosci. 2014 Oct; 17(10):1410-7. PMID: 25195105; PMCID: PMC4486057.
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    31. Beck JM, Ma WJ, Pitkow X, Latham PE, Pouget A. Not noisy, just wrong: the role of suboptimal inference in behavioral variability. Neuron. 2012 Apr 12; 74(1):30-9. PMID: 22500627; PMCID: PMC4486264.
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    32. Pitkow X, Meister M. Decorrelation and efficient coding by retinal ganglion cells. Nat Neurosci. 2012 Mar 11; 15(4):628-35. PMID: 22406548; PMCID: PMC3725273.
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    33. Pitkow X, Ahmadian Y, Miller KD. Learning unbelievable probabilities. Adv Neural Inf Process Syst. 2011 Dec; 24:738-746. PMID: 28781497; PMCID: PMC5543998.
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    34. Pitkow X. Exact feature probabilities in images with occlusion. J Vis. 2010 Dec 31; 10(14). PMID: 21196508; PMCID: PMC7757861.
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    35. Pitkow X, Sompolinsky H, Meister M. A neural computation for visual acuity in the presence of eye movements. PLoS Biol. 2007 Dec; 5(12):e331. PMID: 18162043; PMCID: PMC2222970.
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