David Tam, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

940-565-3261

www.biol.unt.edu/~tam

BS, Computer Science, 1980; Physics 1984; Astrophysics 1984;University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

PhD, Physiology, 1987, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Research

Computational neuroscience; neurophysiology; neuropsychopharmacology; behavioral neuroscience; cognitive neuroscience; physiological psychology; evolutionary neuroscience; neural spike train models and analysis; brain functions integration

Professional Experience

Former director of UFTLA (University Forum on Teaching, Learning and Assessment)

Representative Publications

Tam, D. C. (2002) A spike train analysis for quantifying inhibitory near synchrony in spike firings. Neurocomputing, 44-46: 1149-1153.

Tam, D. C. (2001) A multi-unit spike train analysis for quantifying phase-relationships of near-synchrony firings. Neurocomputing. 38-40:945-949.

Zouridakis, G. and Tam, D. C. (2000) Identification of reliable spike templates in multi-unit extracellular recording using fuzzy clustering. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine. 61: 91-98.

Fitzurka, M. A. and Tam, D. C. (1999) A joint interspike interval difference stochastic spike train analysis: detecting sequential changes in the firing trends of single neurons. Biological Cybernetics. 80: 309-326.

Tam, D. C. (1998) A cross-interval spike train analysis: the correlation between spike generation and temporal integration of doublets. Biological Cybernetics 78: 95-106.