TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - About the Authors A1 - Amthor, Franklin R. A1 - Theibert, Anne B. A1 - Standaert, David G. A1 - Roberson, Erik D. PY - 2020 T2 - Essentials of Modern Neuroscience AB - Franklin R. Amthor, PhD, is a professor of Psychology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Dr. Amthor's research interests evolved from his undergraduate electrical engineering background at Cornell University into artificial intelligence simulations involving Perceptrons, and then visual neuroscience. His Ph.D. work was done at Duke University in Biomedical Engineering on quantitative analysis of retinal ganglion cell responses. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Optometry at UAB, and then was an NEI R01 funded principal investigator who led a team determining the relationship between mammalian ganglion cell physiology, morphology, and central projections. More recently, he has worked on retinal circuitry underlying the responses of different retinal ganglion cell classes, and on assistive devices for the blind. SN - PB - McGraw Hill CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1174241762 ER -