Valerio Mante

Position:	Professor
Email:	valerio@ini.uzh.ch
Work phone:	044 635 30 51
Home page:	http://www.ini.uzh.ch/~valerio

I obtained a Diploma in Physics from the ETH Zurich in 2000, and a PhD in Neuroscience from the ETH Zurich in 2005. From 2006-2013 I was postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Since 2013 I am a group leader at INI. In my lab we use a combination of experimental and computational approaches to study the neural computations underlying cognitive processes like decision-making and attention.

Main Projects

Neural dynamics of primate cognition

Sub-Projects

Teaching

IDB 402 Systems, Computation and Neural Technology

INI-401, 227-1037-00 Introduction to Neuroinformatics

INI-431, 227-1045-00 Readings in Neuroinformatics

INI-502, 227-1039-00 Basics of instrumentation, measurement and analysis

INI-701, 227-1043-00 Neuroinformatics - Colloquia

Publications

2023

Ehret, Benjamin and Boehringer, Roman and Amadei, Elizabeth A. and Cervera, Maria R. and Henning, Christian and Galgali, Aniruddh and Mante, Valerio and Grewe, Benjamin F. Population-level neural correlates of flexible avoidance learning in medial prefrontal cortex, bioRxiv, 2023
Galgali, Aniruddh R. and Sahani, Maneesh and Mante, Valerio Residual dynamics resolves recurrent contributions to neural computation, Nature Neuroscience 326-338, 2023
Soldado-Magraner, Joana and Mante, Valerio and Sahani, Maneesh Inferring context-dependent computations through linear approximations of prefrontal cortex dynamics, bioRxiv, 2023
Timo Flesch, Valerio Mante, William Newsome, Andrew Saxe, Christopher Summerfield, David Sussillo Are task representations gated in macaque prefrontal cortex?, arXiv, 2023

2022

Calangiu, Ioana and Kollmorgen, Sepp and Reppas, John and Mante, Valerio Primate pre-arcuate cortex actively maintains persistent representations of saccades from plans to outcomes, 2022
Markus Marks, Qiuhan Jin, Oliver Sturman, Lukas von Ziegler, Sepp Kollmorgen, Wolfger von der Behrens, Valerio Mante, Johannes Bohacek & Mehmet Fatih Yanik Deep-learning-based identification, tracking, pose estimation and behaviour classification of interacting primates and mice in complex environments, Nature Machine Intelligence , 4: 331-340, 2022
Pagan, Marino and Tang, Vincent D and Aoi, Mikio C. and Pillow, Jonathan W. and Mante, Valerio and Sussillo, David and Brody, Carlos D. A new theoretical framework jointly explains behavioral and neural variability across subjects performing flexible decision-making, 2022
Renate Krause, Matthew Cook, Sepp Kollmorgen, Valerio Mante, Giacomo Indiveri Operative dimensions in unconstrained connectivity of recurrent neural networks, Conference on neural information processing systems (NeurIPS22), 2022

2021

Gwendolin Schoenfeld, Sepp Kollmorgen, Christopher Lewis, Philipp Bethge, Anna-Maria Reuss, Adriano Aguzzi, Valerio Mante, and Fritjof Helmchen Dendritic integration of sensory and reward information facilitates learning, bioRxiv, 2021
M Marks, J Qiuhan, O Sturman, L von Ziegler, S Kollmorgen, W von der Behrens, V Mante, J Bohacek, MF Yanik Deep-learning based identification, pose estimation and end-to-end behavior classification for interacting primates and mice in complex environments, bioRxiv 1-33, 2021

2020

Marks, Markus and Qiuhan, Jin and Sturman, Oliver and von Ziegler, Lukas and Kollmorgen, Sepp and von der Behrens, Wolfger and Mante, Valerio and Bohacek, Johannes and Yanik, Mehmet Fatih SIPEC: the deep-learning Swiss knife for behavioral data analysis, 2020
Sepp Kollmorgen, Richard Hahnloser, Valerio Mante Nearest neighbours reveal fast and slow components of motor learning, Nature, 2020

2019

Kollmorgen, Sepp and Hahnloser, Richard and Mante, Valerio Neighborhood-statistics reveal complex dynamics of song acquisition in the zebra finch, 2019

2013

Mante, V and Sussillo, D and Shenoy, KV and Newsome, WT Context-dependent computation by recurrent dynamics in prefrontal cortex, Nature, 503:(7474) 78-84, 2013

2008

ManteV, Bonin V, Carandini M Functional mechanisms shaping lateral geniculate responses to artificial and natural stimuli, Neuron, 58:(4) 625-38, 2008

2006

Bonin, V and Mante, V and Carandini, M The Statistical Computation Underlying Contrast Gain Control, Journal of Neuroscience, 26:(23) 6346-6353, 2006 pdf
Rust NC, Mante V, Simoncelli EP, Movshon JA How MT cells analyze the motion of visual patterns., Nat Neurosci., 9:(11) 1421-31, 2006

2005

Bonin, V. and Mante, V. and Carandini, M. The Suppressive Field of Neurons in Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Journal of Neuroscience, 25:(47) 10844-10856, 2005 pdf
Carandini M, Demb JB, Mante V, Tolhurst DJ, Dan Y, Olshausen BA, Gallant JL, Rust NC Do we know what the early visual system does?, J Neurosci., 25:(46) 10577-97, 2005
Mante V and Carandini M Mapping of stimulus energy in primary visual cortex, J Neurophysiol., 94:(1) 788-98, 2005
Mante V, Frazor RA, Bonin V, Geisler WS, Carandini M Independence of luminance and contrast in natural scenes and in the early visual system, Nat Neurosci., 8:(12) 1690-7, 2005

2001

Durand, S and Freeman, T C B and Mante, V and Kiper, DC and Carandini, M Cross-orientation suppression in cat V1 with very fast stimuli., Soc Neurosci Abs, 27: Program number 12.10, 2001