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Fabrizio Gabbiani is a Professor of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, United States. His research focuses on the biophysics of information processing in the nervous system, particularly on computational mechanisms of sensory processing from single neurons to networks.
- Education: Ph.D. and advanced training at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
His lab investigates collision avoidance mechanisms in the locust visual system, centering on the lobula giant motion detector (LGMD) neuron. This neuron computes an angular threshold size to trigger escape behaviors, integrating excitatory motion-sensitive and inhibitory size-sensitive inputs via dendritic processing, while demonstrating stimulus invariance across varying contrasts, textures, and shapes.
His 15 most recent publications (1994–2018) span neuronal computation, sensory-motor integration, dendritic processing, and neural coding in diverse systems including locusts, electric fish, and mammalian visual systems. Key themes include spike frequency adaptation, burst firing, logarithmic signal compression, and synchronization in collision detection.
