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PhD Neurobiology University of California, San Francisco
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According to Wikipedia, Stephen Gates Lisberger is an American neurobiologist. He is the George Barth Geller Distinguished Professor for Research and chair of Neurobiology at the Duke University School of Medicine. Early life and education Lisberger was born in New York City and grew up in Stamford, Connecticut and Ithaca, New York. While attending Ithaca High School, Lisberger participated in the 1967 Annual High School Mathematics Contest where he placed in the top one per cent of scorers than any other Upstate school. After graduating in 1967, Lisberger received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Cornell University in 1971 and his PhD in Physiology at the University of Washington.

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Stimulus onset quenches neural variability: a widespread cortical phenomenon (2010) (939)
Visual motion processing and sensory-motor integration for smooth pursuit eye movements. (1987) (699)
The Cerebellum: A Neuronal Learning Machine? (1996) (621)
Plasticity in the vestibulo-ocular reflex: a new hypothesis. (1981) (510)
The neural basis for learning of simple motor skills. (1988) (412)
Visual responses of Purkinje cells in the cerebellar flocculus during smooth-pursuit eye movements in monkeys. I. Simple spikes. (1990) (395)
Properties of visual inputs that initiate horizontal smooth pursuit eye movements in monkeys (1985) (349)
Visual Motion Analysis for Pursuit Eye Movements in Area MT of Macaque Monkeys (1999) (317)
The Neural Representation of Speed in Macaque Area MT/V5 (2003) (281)
A sensory source for motor variation (2005) (280)
Tuning for Spatiotemporal Frequency and Speed in Directionally Selective Neurons of Macaque Striate Cortex (2006) (271)
Relationship between eye acceleration and retinal image velocity during foveal smooth pursuit in man and monkey. (1981) (259)
Brain stem neurons in modified pathways for motor learning in the primate vestibulo-ocular reflex. (1988) (259)
Neural basis for motor learning in the vestibuloocular reflex of primates. III. Computational and behavioral analysis of the sites of learning. (1994) (251)
Visual motion processing for the initiation of smooth-pursuit eye movements in humans. (1986) (247)
Learning and memory in the vestibulo-ocular reflex. (1995) (245)
Links from complex spikes to local plasticity and motor learning in the cerebellum of awake-behaving monkeys (2008) (237)
Visual Guidance of Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements: Sensation, Action, and What Happens in Between (2010) (212)
Neural basis for motor learning in the vestibuloocular reflex of primates. I. Changes in the responses of brain stem neurons. (1994) (209)
Motor learning in a recurrent network model based on the vestibulo–ocular reflex (1992) (207)
Neural Learning Rules for the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (1998) (204)
Signals used to compute errors in monkey vestibuloocular reflex: possible role of flocculus. (1984) (203)
Maldevelopment of visual motion processing in humans who had strabismus with onset in infancy (1986) (203)
Neural basis for motor learning in the vestibuloocular reflex of primates. II. Changes in the responses of horizontal gaze velocity Purkinje cells in the cerebellar flocculus and ventral paraflocculus. (1994) (196)
Partial ablations of the flocculus and ventral paraflocculus in monkeys cause linked deficits in smooth pursuit eye movements and adaptive modification of the VOR. (2002) (195)
Frequency-selective adaptation: evidence for channels in the vestibulo- ocular reflex? (1983) (180)
Oculomotor function in frontotemporal lobar degeneration, related disorders and Alzheimer's disease (2008) (176)
Regulation of the gain of visually guided smooth-pursuit eye movements by frontal cortex (2001) (173)
Constraints on the source of short-term motion adaptation in macaque area MT. I. the role of input and intrinsic mechanisms. (2002) (163)
Time Course of Information about Motion Direction in Visual Area MT of Macaque Monkeys (2004) (162)
Purkinje-cell plasticity and cerebellar motor learning are graded by complex-spike duration (2014) (158)
The neural basis for motor learning in the vestibulo-ocular reflex in monkeys (1988) (154)
The Neural Basis for Combinatorial Coding in a Cortical Population Response (2008) (152)
Responses during eye movements of brain stem neurons that receive monosynaptic inhibition from the flocculus and ventral paraflocculus in monkeys. (1994) (146)
Optokinetic response in monkey: underlying mechanisms and their sensitivity to long-term adaptive changes in vestibuloocular reflex. (1981) (143)
Different responses to small visual errors during initiation and maintenance of smooth-pursuit eye movements in monkeys. (1987) (139)
Initial tracking conditions modulate the gain of visuo-motor transmission for smooth pursuit eye movements in monkeys (1994) (136)
Temporal properties of visual motion signals for the initiation of smooth pursuit eye movements in monkeys. (1994) (126)
Vector Averaging for Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements Initiated by Two Moving Targets in Monkeys (1997) (125)
Effect of changing feedback delay on spontaneous oscillations in smooth pursuit eye movements of monkeys. (1992) (123)
Estimating Target Speed from the Population Response in Visual Area MT (2004) (122)
A model of visually-guided smooth pursuit eye movements based on behavioral observations (1994) (121)
Noise correlations in cortical area MT and their potential impact on trial-by-trial variation in the direction and speed of smooth-pursuit eye movements. (2009) (117)
Effects of Early-Onset Artificial Strabismus on Pursuit Eye Movements and on Neuronal Responses in Area MT of Macaque Monkeys (1996) (114)
Role of primate medial vestibular nucleus in long-term adaptive plasticity of vestibuloocular reflex. (1980) (111)
Vestibular signals carried by pathways subserving plasticity of the vestibulo-ocular reflex in monkeys (1986) (110)
Visual responses of Purkinje cells in the cerebellar flocculus during smooth-pursuit eye movements in monkeys. II. Complex spikes. (1990) (109)
Postsaccadic enhancement of initiation of smooth pursuit eye movements in monkeys. (1998) (109)
Variation, Signal, and Noise in Cerebellar Sensory–Motor Processing for Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements (2007) (106)
The latency of pathways containing the site of motor learning in the monkey vestibulo-ocular reflex. (1984) (103)
Internal models of eye movement in the floccular complex of the monkey cerebellum (2009) (103)
Medial Versus Lateral Frontal Lobe Contributions to Voluntary Saccade Control as Revealed by the Study of Patients with Frontal Lobe Degeneration (2006) (101)
A Control Systems Model of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements with Realistic Emergent Properties (1989) (100)
Neuronal responses in visual areas MT and MST during smooth pursuit target selection. (1997) (99)
Shifts in the Population Response in the Middle Temporal Visual Area Parallel Perceptual and Motor Illusions Produced by Apparent Motion (2001) (91)
Normal performance and expression of learning in the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) at high frequencies. (2005) (91)
The Representation of Time for Motor Learning (2005) (91)
Evidence for object permanence in the smooth-pursuit eye movements of monkeys. (2003) (89)
Enhancement of multiple components of pursuit eye movement by microstimulation in the arcuate frontal pursuit area in monkeys. (2002) (82)
Linked Target Selection for Saccadic and Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (2001) (78)
Constraints on the source of short-term motion adaptation in macaque area MT. II. tuning of neural circuit mechanisms. (2002) (76)
Changes in the responses of Purkinje cells in the floccular complex of monkeys after motor learning in smooth pursuit eye movements. (2000) (75)
Role of arcuate frontal cortex of monkeys in smooth pursuit eye movements. I. Basic response properties to retinal image motion and position. (2002) (75)
Coordinate System for Learning in the Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements of Monkeys (1996) (74)
Behavioral Analysis of Signals that Guide Learned Changes in the Amplitude and Dynamics of the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (1996) (73)
Time Course of Precision in Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements of Monkeys (2007) (73)
Cerebellar LTD: A Molecular Mechanism of Behavioral Learning? (1998) (72)
Encoding and decoding of learned smooth-pursuit eye movements in the floccular complex of the monkey cerebellum. (2009) (65)
Properties of pathways that mediate motor learning in the vestibulo-ocular reflex of monkeys. (1990) (65)
Transformation of vestibular signals into motor commands in the vestibuloocular reflex pathways of monkeys. (2006) (64)
Gain control in human smooth-pursuit eye movements. (2002) (64)
Diversity and dynamism in the cerebellum (2020) (64)
Visual Guidance of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements. (2015) (62)
Serial linkage of target selection for orienting and tracking eye movements (2002) (60)
Vestibular inputs to brain stem neurons that participate in motor learning in the primate vestibuloocular reflex. (1992) (59)
Cortical Mechanisms of Smooth Eye Movements Revealed by Dynamic Covariations of Neural and Behavioral Responses (2008) (59)
Topographic and directional organization of visual motion inputs for the initiation of horizontal and vertical smooth-pursuit eye movements in monkeys. (1989) (58)
Role of Plasticity at Different Sites across the Time Course of Cerebellar Motor Learning (2014) (58)
Comparison of the spatial limits on direction selectivity in visual areas MT and V1. (2005) (57)
Simple spike responses of gaze velocity Purkinje cells in the floccular lobe of the monkey during the onset and offset of pursuit eye movements. (1994) (57)
Visual tracking in monkeys: evidence for short-latency suppression of the vestibuloocular reflex. (1990) (57)
Synergistic Action of Complex and Simple Spikes in the Monkey Flocculus in the Control of Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movement (1989) (56)
Multiple subclasses of Purkinje cells in the primate floccular complex provide similar signals to guide learning in the vestibulo-ocular reflex. (1997) (55)
The effect of a moving distractor on the initiation of smooth-pursuit eye movements (1997) (54)
Properties of signals that determine the amplitude and direction of saccadic eye movements in monkeys. (1986) (54)
Analysis of a naturally occurring asymmetry in vertical smooth pursuit eye movements in a monkey. (1992) (53)
Embarrassed, but Not Depressed Eye Opening Lessons for Cerebellar Learning (2002) (53)
Directional organization of eye movement and visual signals in the floccular lobe of the monkey cerebellum (1996) (52)
Experimental and computational analysis of monkey smooth pursuit eye movements. (2001) (52)
Reconstruction of Target Speed for the Guidance of Pursuit Eye Movements (2001) (49)
Neural implementation of Bayesian inference in a sensory-motor behavior (2018) (48)
Apparent motion produces multiple deficits in visually guided smooth pursuit eye movements of monkeys. (2000) (47)
Instructive signals for motor learning from visual cortical area MT (2005) (47)
Duration of complex-spikes grades Purkinje cell plasticity and cerebellar motor learning (2014) (47)
The sensorimotor bottleneck for smooth pursuit eye movements (1995) (46)
Membrane and firing properties of avian medial vestibular nucleus neurons in vitro (2004) (46)
A tale of two species: Neural integration in zebrafish and monkeys (2015) (45)
Expression of motor learning in the response of the primate vestibuloocular reflex pathway to electrical stimulation. (1992) (44)
Physiologic basis for motor learning in the vestibulo-ocular reflex (1998) (44)
Visual motion commands for pursuit eye movements in the cerebellum. (1991) (42)
Motor Learning and Memory in the Vestibulo‐Ocular Reflex: The Dark Side (1996) (42)
Directional Anisotropies Reveal a Functional Segregation of Visual Motion Processing for Perception and Action (2003) (41)
Hypotheses about the neural trigger for plasticity in the circuit for the vestibulo-ocular reflex. (2000) (39)
Learning on multiple timescales in smooth pursuit eye movements. (2010) (38)
The Interaction of Bayesian Priors and Sensory Data and Its Neural Circuit Implementation in Visually Guided Movement (2012) (38)
Cerebellar flocculus hypothesis (1993) (36)
Sensory Population Decoding for Visually Guided Movements (2013) (36)
Neural substrate of modified and unmodified pathways for learning in monkey vestibuloocular reflex. (2008) (35)
Visual cortical signals supporting smooth pursuit eye movements. (1990) (34)
Detection of tracking errors by visual climbing fiber inputs to monkey cerebellar flocculus during pursuit eye movements (1986) (34)
Directional Cuing of Target Choice in Human Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (2006) (34)
Learning: A mechanism of learning found? (1995) (33)
Signal, Noise, and Variation in Neural and Sensory-Motor Latency (2016) (33)
Interaction of plasticity and circuit organization during the acquisition of cerebellum-dependent motor learning (2013) (31)
Discharge properties of MST neurons that project to the frontal pursuit area in macaque monkeys. (2005) (31)
The Role of the Frontal Pursuit Area in Learning in Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (2004) (30)
Role of arcuate frontal cortex of monkeys in smooth pursuit eye movements. II. Relation to vector averaging pursuit. (2002) (30)
Diversity of Neural Responses in the Brainstem during Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements Constrains the Circuit Mechanisms of Neural Integration (2013) (29)
Relationship between adapted neural population responses in MT and motion adaptation in speed and direction of smooth-pursuit eye movements. (2009) (28)
Inputs from the ipsilateral and contralateral vestibular apparatus to behaviorally characterized abducens neurons in rhesus monkeys. (1995) (27)
Membrane and firing properties of avian medial vestibular nucleus neuronsin vitro (1995) (27)
Relationship between extraretinal component of firing rate and eye speed in area MST of macaque monkeys. (2005) (26)
Reward Action in the Initiation of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (2012) (25)
Signals that modulate gain control for smooth pursuit eye movements in monkeys. (2004) (25)
Role of the cerebellum during motor learning in the vestibulo-ocular reflex Different mechanisms in different species? (1982) (24)
Control of the strength of visual-motor transmission as the mechanism of rapid adaptation of priors for Bayesian inference in smooth pursuit eye movements. (2017) (24)
A Population Decoding Framework for Motion Aftereffects on Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (2004) (24)
Context-dependent smooth eye movements evoked by stationary visual stimuli in trained monkeys. (2000) (24)
How and why neural and motor variation are related (2015) (22)
Spatial and temporal integration of visual motion signals for smooth pursuit eye movements in monkeys. (2009) (21)
Responses of neurons in the medial superior temporal visual area to apparent motion stimuli in macaque monkeys. (2007) (21)
Gamma Synchrony Predicts Neuron–Neuron Correlations and Correlations with Motor Behavior in Extrastriate Visual Area MT (2013) (21)
Vector Averaging Occurs Downstream from Learning in Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements of Monkeys (1999) (21)
Biologically Plausible Local Learning Rules for the Adaptation of the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (1992) (20)
VESTIBULO-OCULAR REFLEX: A NEW HYPOTHESIS+ (1981) (20)
Spatial Generalization of Learning in Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements: Implications for the Coordinate Frame and Sites of Learning (2002) (17)
Learned Timing of Motor Behavior in the Smooth Eye Movement Region of the Frontal Eye Fields (2011) (17)
A framework for using signal, noise, and variation to determine whether the brain controls movement synergies or single muscles. (2014) (17)
Saccades Exert Spatial Control of Motion Processing for Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (2006) (17)
Principles of operation of a cerebellar learning circuit (2020) (16)
Models of Cerebellar Function (2002) (16)
The Rules of Cerebellar Learning: Around the Ito Hypothesis (2020) (16)
The Neural Code for Motor Control in the Cerebellum and Oculomotor Brainstem†‡ (2014) (15)
Relating activity-dependent modifications of neuronal function to changes in neural systems and behavior (1994) (15)
An adaptive equalizer model of the primate vestibulo-ocular reflex. (1985) (15)
Acquisition of Neural Learning in Cerebellum and Cerebral Cortex for Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (2011) (14)
Eye movements and brainstem neuronal responses evoked by cerebellar and vestibular stimulation in chicks (1992) (14)
A Neurally Efficient Implementation of Sensory Population Decoding (2011) (12)
Modulation of Complex-Spike Duration and Probability during Cerebellar Motor Learning in Visually Guided Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements of Monkeys (2017) (12)
Sensory versus motor loci for integration of multiple motion signals in smooth pursuit eye movements and human motion perception. (2011) (12)
Representation of Perceptually Invisible Image Motion in Extrastriate Visual Area MT of Macaque Monkeys (2011) (12)
Control of the Gain of Visual–Motor Transmission Occurs in Visual Coordinates for Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (2013) (11)
Multiple components in direction learning in smooth pursuit eye movements of monkeys. (2018) (11)
Error Signals in Horizontal Gaze Velocity Purkinje Cells under Stimulus Conditions That Cause Learning in the VOR (1996) (11)
Mechanisms that allow cortical preparatory activity without inappropriate movement (2019) (10)
Role of the Lateral Intraparietal Area in Modulation of the Strength of Sensory-Motor Transmission for Visually Guided Movements (2012) (10)
Responses of Purkinje cells in the oculomotor vermis of monkeys during smooth pursuit eye movements and saccades: comparison with floccular complex. (2017) (9)
The neural basis for response latency in a sensory-motor behavior (2019) (8)
Interactions between target location and reward size modulate the rate of microsaccades in monkeys. (2015) (8)
Circuit mechanisms revealed by spike-timing correlations in macaque area MT. (2013) (7)
Computational Analysis Suggests a New Hypothesis for Motor Learning in the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex (1992) (6)
Recurrent Eye Tracking Network Using a Distributed Representation of Image Motion (1991) (6)
Different mechanisms for modulation of the initiation and steady-state of smooth pursuit eye movements. (2020) (5)
The Signal Processing and Function of the Flocculus During Smooth Eye Movement in the Monkey (1982) (5)
Neural implementation of Bayesian inference in a sensorimotor behavior (2018) (4)
Neural recordings and behavioral observations in the monkey vestibulo-ocular reflex constrain the cellular mechanisms for cerebellum-dependent behavioral learning (1996) (4)
Motor systems Understanding motor circuits: where bottom-up meets top-down (2000) (4)
Evaluation and resolution of many challenges of neural spike-sorting: a new sorter (2021) (3)
Learning on multiple time scales in smooth pursuit eye movements (2010) (3)
Sound the Alarm: Fraud in Neuroscience (2013) (3)
Combinatorial coding in neural populations (2008) (3)
Lisberger Smooth-Pursuit Eye Movements of Monkeys Evidence for Object Permanence in the (2003) (3)
Different mechanisms for modulation of the initiation and steady-state of smooth pursuit eye movements (2019) (3)
Behavioral Analysis of Gain Control for Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (2002) (2)
Contributions from different model organisms to brain research: Introduction (2015) (2)
Evaluation and resolution of many challenges of neural spike-sorting: a new sorter. (2021) (2)
Doing without learning: stimulation of the frontal eye fields and floccular complex does not instruct motor learning in smooth pursuit eye movements. (2008) (2)
Neural structure of a sensory decoder for motor control (2020) (2)
Multitasking on the run (2013) (2)
Sensory-motor computations in a cortico-pontine pathway (2022) (1)
Publisher Correction: Diversity and dynamism in the cerebellum (2021) (1)
Monkey Cerebellum Eye Movements in the Floccular Complex of the Encoding and Decoding of Learned Smooth-Pursuit (2015) (1)
A different approach to modelling pursuit eye movements (1994) (1)
MovementsCortical Signals Supporting Smooth Pursuit Eye (2013) (0)
Creating Coordination in the Cerebellum Catania, 2–4 October 2003 (2004) (0)
Model of Contrast-Invariant Orientation Tuning Contrast-Dependent Nonlinearities Arise Locally in a (2011) (0)
Erratum: Tuning for spatiotemporal frequency and speed in directionally selective neurons of macaque striate cortex (Journal of Neuroscience (March 15, 2006) (2941-2950)) (2006) (0)
Distributed Memory in the Cerebellar Cortex and the Deep Cerebellar Nuclei (2001) (0)
Toward a Biomimetic Neural Circuit Model of Sensory-Motor Processing (2022) (0)
Multitasking on the run Researchers combine genetics and imaging to reveal that individual granule cells in the cerebellum integrate sensory and motor information. (2013) (0)
Monkeys of Commands in the Vestibuloocular Reflex Pathways Transformation of Vestibular Signals Into Motor (2015) (0)
Stimulation in the Supplementary Eye Fields Facilitation of Smooth Pursuit Initiation by Electrical (2013) (0)
The relative contributions of area MT and the frontal eye fields to the latency of smooth pursuit (2018) (0)
Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements Experimental and Computational Analysis of Monkey (2012) (0)
Callosal-Projecting Rat Visual Cortical Neurons Currents in + Depolarization-Activated K -Independent 2+ Three Kinetically Distinct Ca (2015) (0)
Selectivity in Visual Areas MT and V 1 Comparison of the Spatial Limits on Direction (2005) (0)
Author response: Interaction of plasticity and circuit organization during the acquisition of cerebellum-dependent motor learning (2013) (0)
The speed tuning of single units in macaque visual area MT depends on spatial form and contrast (2010) (0)
Whole-Body Rotation Simple-Spike Activity During Pursuit and Passive Purkinje Cells of the Cerebellar Dorsal Vermis: (2015) (0)
Pursuit Area in Monkeys Movement by Microstimulation in the Arcuate Frontal Enhancement of Multiple Components of Pursuit Eye (2013) (0)
Rate versus synchrony codes for cerebellar control of motor behavior (2023) (0)
Movements Visual Cortical Signals Supporting Smooth Pursuit Eye (1990) (0)
P3-005: The antisaccade task is sensitive to attention network integrity in normal elderly and dementia (2008) (0)
ConditionsActivity Under Different Stimulus Shift in Smooth Pursuit Initiation and MT and MST (2015) (0)
MedialVersusLateralFrontalLobeContributionsto VoluntarySaccadeControlasRevealedbytheStudyof PatientswithFrontalLobeDegeneration (2006) (0)
Publisher Correction: Diversity and dynamism in the cerebellum (2021) (0)
MonkeysGuided Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements of Apparent Motion Produces Multiple Deficits in (2012) (0)
Correlations between Pairs of Neurons and Behavior in the Frontal Cortex During Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements (2007) (0)
Circuit Mechanisms Neural Adaptation in Macaque Area MT. II. Tuning of Constraints on the Source of Short-Term Motion (2015) (0)
correlations in macaque area MT Circuit mechanisms revealed by spike-timing (2015) (0)
Author response: Principles of operation of a cerebellar learning circuit (2020) (0)
Macaque Monkeys Temporal Visual Area to Apparent Motion Stimuli in Responses of Neurons in the Medial Superior (2015) (0)
Pursuit Eye Movements in Monkeys Signals That Modulate Gain Control for Smooth (2015) (0)

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