Avi Chaudhuri (Lab Director)
Carmelo Milo (Lab Manager)
Andrzej Przybyszewski (Visiting Pr.)
Alain Mignault (Post-Doc)
Reza Farivar (Post-Doc)

Andrzej Przybyszewski

Visiting Professor

Neurology, University of Massachusetts

Email: przyego.psych.mcgill.ca

 Karen Borrmann (Doctoral Student)
Caitlin Mouri (Doctoral Student)
Dana Hayward (Doctoral Student)
Malak Abu Shakra (Doctoral Student)
Ted Wilson (Doctoral Student)
Island Peak (6189m, 20300 feet) with K. Wielicki
In the back Lhotse (8516m, 27939 feet)
 
Andrzej W. Przybyszewski holds a M.S. in Electrical Engineering, a M.A. in Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Neurophysiology. He is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts and is currently a visiting Professor at the Department of Psychology at McGill University.  The long term goal of his research is to understand how the brain integrates streams of the sensory information and converts them into the action. He has performed recordings from the retina while he was working with O.-J. Grusser in Berlin, and with W. van de Grind and M. Lankheed in Utrecht. Later with D. Pollen (UMass) and M. Snodderly, I. Kagan (Schepens Institute at Harvard Medical School) he has performed recordings from LGN, V1, and V4 areas in monkeys. Back-projecting (feedback) pathways play a major role in brain function (work with D, Pollen, and anatomy analysis with K. Rockland during his stay at the RIKEN Institute, Japan). Currently he is studying behavior of marmoset monkeys (Behavior Brain Res, 2006) and he is preparing wireless recording system to record from the visual system in freely moving marmosets. These data are being modeled in cooperation with M. Kon (BU) and T. Rutkowski (RIKEN). The main stream of his work follows the idea of Paul Ricoeur described in his book  Soi-même comme un autre that an individual’s identity has its base not only in genes but also in individual actions which fingerprints the way that parallel processes are integrated in the brain. 

 

Recent papers:
 
PRYBYSZEWSKI A. W., P. S. Linsay, P. Gaudiano  and C.M. Wilson (2006)
Basic Difference Between Brain and Computer: Integration of Asynchronous Processes Implemented as Hardware Model of the Retina. IEEE Trans Neural Network, appear in Nov, 2006 (in press) (PDF)
 
 
PRYBYSZEWSKI A. W., SOSALE S., CHAUDHURI A. (2006)
Quantification of three-dimensional exploration in the cylinder test by the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus).   
Beh Brain Res. 170(1):62-70 (PDF)
 
PRYBYSZEWSKI A. W., RUTKOWSKI T.M. (2005) Processing of the incomplete representation of the visual world. Issues in Intelligent Systems Paradigms. EXIT, Warsaw, 2005 eds, O. Hryniewicz, J. Kacprzyk, J. Koronacki, S.T. Wierzchon, 225-235 (PDF)
 
KON M., PLASKOTA  L.,  PRYBYSZEWSKI A. W. (2005),
Machine Learning and Statistical MAP Methods Artificial Intelligence and Applications, M.H. Hamza, Ed., Innsbruck (2005), 467-472. (PDF)
 
KON M., PLASKOTA  L,  PRYBYSZEWSKI A.W. (2005),
Statistical likeihood representations of prior knowledge in machine learning
Artificial Intelligence and Applications, M.H. Hamza, Ed., Innsbruck (2005), 467-472. (PDF)