Craig Anthony Atencio

Craig Anthony Atencio

I'm a Research Scientist in the Center for Integrative Neuroscience at UCSF. My research is concerned with computing receptive fields of neurons using dynamic, naturalistic sounds and relating the receptive fields to the anatomical organization of auditory cortex.

Research Thoughts

A Stroke of Genius: Striving for Greatness in All You Do by R.W. Hamming - I read this once a month to stay focused.
Science: Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper
How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler - The main points from the classic book
Strunk and White - The Elements of Style
The Science of Scientific Writing
Making the Most of MS Word in Your Business
Rejected Nobel Prize Winning Research - Has a link that describes how great research is often rejected.
JunkScience.com - "All the junk that's fit to debunk."
Qualifying Exam Notes and Questions - What to think about for the bioengineering exam.

Research Labs

UCSF Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience - I completed my Ph.D. here with Christoph Schreiner
Eaton-Peabody Laboratory of Auditory Physiology - Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard-MIT - I worked here for two years for Bertrand Delgutte and John Rosowski
Hearing Research Center - Boston University - I did my senior thesis here with Steve Colburn

Journals

Current Articles of Interest

Engineering links

IEEE Xplore - the mecca of all engineering articles, though not free
NEC Research Index - One of my favorite places to search for computational, free articles and papers
Matlab
World of Mathematics - a nice resource
StatSoft Electronic Statistics Textbook - from Basics to ANOVA to Time Series - almost too good to be true!
The Data Analysis BriefBook
Christopher Bishop on Pattern Recognition
Time-Frequency Toolbox for Matlab - very nice package with a very useful manual/tutorial on time-frequency distributions
Introduction to Higher Order Statistics - describes the world beyond 2nd order statistics
TISEAN - Nonlinear Time Series Analysis
TSTOOL - Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Matlab Code
The Kalman Filter - Great page, with the original paper!
Probability, Random Process, Statistical Signal Processing, and Information Theory Books by Robert M. Gray

Signal Processing Information Base (SPIB) - hosted by Rice University

DSP Guru - major digital signal processing site

DSP-Related Groups, Jobs, Books and Links - another DSP summary site

WAVEKIT a Wavelet Toolbox for Matlab - good beginning Wavelet page with some nice, coherent software

The Discrete Periodic Wavelet Transform

Numerical Recipes - The whole book online!

Introduction to the Bootstrap - Stanford statistics course

Resampling Methods In Statistical Modeling - Nice, practical set of notes on computer intensive statistical methods

Speech links

Mike Brookes - speech coding notes with nice software toolbox
Lecture Notes in Speech Production, Speech Coding, and Speech Recognition
comp.speech WWW site - summary site for speech issues
Dan Ellis's Columbia Home Page - Great set of DSP course notes, etc., especially a Speech Processing class
Martin Cooke - Selected papers and software for speech
Philip Loizou - Very nice matlab speech software and some audio examples

Pattern Recognition links

Christopher Bishop on Pattern Recognition
PRTools - Matlab Toolbox for Pattern Recognition
Self-organizing map (SOM) Toolbox
Pattern Classification - The classic book - errata, powerpoint files, etc.
SaGA - Spatial and Geometric Analysis Toolbox - Excellent package for analyzing two dimensional data

Neuroscience Links

Spiking Neuron Models
Neural Coding and Perception of Sound Home Page - MIT course reviewing coding of sound in auditory periphery and brainstem; good pointers on paper discussions for beginners
Ernst Terhardt on Pitch Perception
David Halliday: Fourier Analysis of Spike Trains
NeuronDB - Database of neuron models
Neural Computation at UC Berkeley
spiketrain.de - resource page