Tan Yong-Yi, Andrew

Tan Yong-Yi, Andrew

PhD

Assistant Professor

+65-6516 5955 (Office)

+65-6778 8161

phstya@nus.edu.sg

(Central Auditory Processing and Plasticity)

ORCID

Affiliations

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore
  • Healthy Longevity Translational Research Programme, NUS
  • Cardiovascular-Metabolic Disease Translational Research Programme, NUS
  • Neurobiology Programme, Life Sciences Institute

 

Research Areas of Interest:

  • Synaptic mechanisms of complex sound processing in the central auditory system
  • Synaptic mechanisms of adult plasticity in the central auditory system

Selected Publications

  1. Kumar MG, Tan C, Libedinsky C, Yen SC, Tan AY. One-shot learning of paired associations by a reservoir computing model with Hebbian plasticity. Preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.03580, 2021.
  2. Chew KCM, Kumar V, Tan AY. Different excitation-inhibition correlations between spontaneous and tone-evoked activity in primary auditory cortex neurons. Neuroscience 496: 205-218, 2022
  3. Kumar MG, Tan C, Libedinsky C, Yen SC, Tan AY. A nonlinear hidden layer enables actor-critic agents to learn multiple paired association navigation. Cerebral Cortex 32:3917-3936, 2022.
  4. Tan AY, Chen Y, Scholl B, Seidemann E, Priebe NJ. Sensory stimulation shifts visual cortex from synchronous to asynchronous states. Nature 509:226-229, 2014.
  5. Tan AY, Andoni S, Priebe NJ. A spontaneous state of weakly correlated synaptic excitation and inhibition in visual cortex. Neuroscience 247:364-375, 2013.
  6. Tan AY, Brown BD, Scholl B, Mohanty D, Priebe NJ. Orientation Selectivity of Synaptic Input to Neurons in Mouse and Cat Primary Visual Cortex. J Neurosci 31:12339-12350, 2011.
  7. Tan AY, Wehr M. Balanced tone-evoked synaptic excitation and inhibition in mouse auditory cortex. Neuroscience 163:1302-1315, 2009.
  8. Tan AY, Atencio CA, Polley DB, Merzenich MM, Schreiner CE. Unbalanced synaptic inhibition can create intensity-tuned auditory cortex neurons. Neuroscience 146:449-462, 2007.
  9. Tan AY, Zhang LI, Merzenich MM, Schreiner CE. Tone-evoked excitatory and inhibitory synaptic conductances of primary auditory cortex neurons. J Neurophysiol 92:630-643, 2004.
  10. Zhang LI, Tan AY, Schreiner CE, Merzenich MM. Topography and synaptic shaping of direction selectivity in primary auditory cortex. Nature 424:201-205, 2003.

Awards

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