Representative Publications

Leopold, D.A. & Maier, A. (2012) Ongoing physiological processes in the cerebral cortex. Neuroimage. PMID:22040739

Maier, A., Aura, C. & Leopold., D.A. (2011) lnfragranular origin of induced LFP responses in macaque primary visual cortex. J. Neurosci. 31(6):1971-1980

Maier, A., Adams, G.K., Aura, C. & Leopold., D.A. (2010) Distinct Superficial and deep laminar domains of activity in the visual cortex during rest and stimulation. Front. Syst. Neurosci. 4:3 1.

Scholvinck, M.L., Maier, A., Ye, F.Q., Duyn, J.H. & Leopold, D.A. (201 0) Neural basis of global resting state fMRl activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107(22): 10238-43.

Wang, Z., Maier, A., Logothetis, N.K., Liang, H. (2009) Extraction of bistable-percept-related features from local field potential by integration of local regression and common spatial patterns. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 56(8):2095-2103

Wang, Z., Maier, A., Logothetis, N.K., Liang, H. (2009) Relaxation based feature selection for single-trial decoding of bistable perception. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 56(1): 101 -1 10

Maier, A., Wilke, M., Aura, C., Zhu, C., Ye, F.Q. & Leopold, D.A. (2008) Divergence of fMRl and neural signals in V1 during perceptual suppression in the awake monkey. Nat. Neurosci 1 l(10): 1 193-1 200 [see also: DISPATCH: Blake, R. & Braun, J. (2009). Curr. Biol, 19(10):R30-321

Wang, Z., Maier, A., Logothetis, N.K. & Liang, H. (2008) Single-trial classification of bistable perception by integrating empirical mode decomposition, clustering and support vector machine. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 2008592742

Wang, Z., Maier, A., Logothetis, N.K. & Liang, H. (2008) Single-trial decoding of bistable perception based on sparse nonnnegative tensor decomposition. Journal of Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2008:642387

Maier A., Logothetis, N.K. & Leopold, D.A. (2007) Context-dependent perceptual modulation of single neurons in primate visual cortex. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104(13):5620-5625

Wang, Z., Maier, A., Logothetis, N.K., Leopold, D.A., Liang, H., (2007) Single-trial evoked potential estimation using wavelet. Computers in Biology and Medicine. 37(4):463-473

Wang, Z., Maier, A., Leopold, D.A., Liang, H. (2006) Relaxation based multichannel signal combination (RELAX-MUSIC) for perceptual decisions using the area under the ROC Curve. IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Engineering 5(12):2615-2618

Maier, A., Logothetis, N.K. & Leopold, D.A. (2005) Global competition dictates local suppression in pattern rivalry. JOV 5(9):668-677

Maier, A., Wilke, M., Logothetis, N.K. & Leopold, D.A. (2003) Perception of temporally interleaved ambiguous patterns. Curr. Biol. 13:1076-1085 [see also: HIGHLIGHT: Jones, R. (2003). Nat. Rev. Neurosci., 4, 6121

Leopold, D.A., Wilke, M., Maier, A. & Logothetis, N.K. (2002) Stable perception of visually ambiguous patterns. Nat. Neurosci 5(6): 605-609

Honors

2009: Fellows Award of Research Excellence (FARE)

2006: Klaus Tschira Award of the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung)

2006: Julius Axelrod Memorial Fellowship Award