Jochen Ditterich
Assistant Professor
jditterich (at) ucdavis (dot) edu

Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
Center for Neuroscience

Office
1544 Newton Ct
(530) 754-5084

Lab
(530) 754-6987


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Degrees:
2000 PhD Technical University of Munich, Germany (Electrical Engineering)
1995 Diploma Technical University of Munich, Germany (Electrical Engineering)
Research Interests:

Our lab is interested in neural mechanisms underlying higher-order brain functions linking perception and action, especially decision making. We are working on answering the question how the brain processes sensory information and combines it with other information in order to select what action to take next and when to take that action. So far, these mechanisms have mainly been studied from a psychological point of view, whereas neurophysiologists have largely concentrated on lower-level mechanisms. We are trying to bridge this gap by utilizing both behavioral and neurophysiological methods and by using mathematical models for exploring potential neural mechanisms.
Awards:
1996-98: DFG Fellowship, Graduate College "Sensory interaction in biological and technical systems"
2000-02: DFG Research Fellowship, Dept. of Physiology & Biophysics, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Department and Center Affiliations:
Center for Neuroscience
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior (College of Biological Sciences)

Professional Societies:
Society for Neuroscience
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Neuroscience  
Graduate Groups not Housed in CBS:
Applied Mathematics  
Publications: Last updated 11/19/2009
  • Wendelken C, Ditterich J, Bunge SA, Carter CS (2009) Stimulus and response conflict processing during perceptual decision making. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 9:434-447
  • Niwa M, Ditterich J (2008) Perceptual Decisions between Multiple Directions of Visual Motion. Journal of Neuroscience 28:4435-4445
  • Ditterich J (2006) Evidence for time-variant decision making. European Journal of Neuroscience 24:3628-3641
  • Ditterich J (2006) Stochastic models of decisions about motion direction: Behavior and physiology. Neural Networks 19:981-1012
  • Hanks TD, Ditterich J, Shadlen MN (2006) Microstimulation of macaque area LIP affects decision-making in a motion discrimination task. Nature Neuroscience 9:682-689
  • Ditterich J, Mazurek ME, Shadlen MN (2003) Microstimulation of visual cortex affects the speed of perceptual decisions. Nature Neuroscience 6:891-898
  • Ditterich J, Keller I, Eggert T, Straube A (2002) Modeling visuospatial perception in neglect patients. Biological Cybernetics 86:41-57
  • Ditterich J, Eggert T (2001) Improving the homogeneity of the magnetic field in the magnetic search coil technique. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 48:1178-1185
  • Ditterich J, Eggert T, Straube A (2000) Relation between the metrics of the presaccadic attention shift and of the saccade before and after saccadic adaptation. Journal of Neurophysiology 84:1809-1813
  • Ditterich J, Eggert T, Straube A (2000) The role of the attention focus in the visual information processing underlying saccadic adaptation. Vision Research 40:1125-1134
  • Ditterich J, Eggert T, Straube A (1998) Fixation errors and timing in sequences of memory-guided saccades. Behavioural Brain Research 95:205-217
Laboratory Personnel:
Ditterich Lab

Jochen Ditterich (PI), Anil Bollimunta (Postdoc), Michelle Stuart (Lab Manager)

Teaching Interests:
Systems Neuroscience, Modeling
Courses:
NPB 14 Illusions: Fooling the Brain (Winter)
NSC 285 Literature in Visual Neuroscience (Fall)
NSC 222 Systems Neuroscience (Winter)