Staff Profile

The Schmid lab investigates perceptual brain circuits and their plasticity.

For more information: http://research.ncl.ac.uk/schmidlab/

News: See our latest publication in Neuron on cell-targeted optogenetics.

To enquire about opportunities for participating in my lab's work as a technician, PhD student or post-doc, please send me an email.

External funding

Emmy Noether grant, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Starting grant, European Research Council

Qualifications

Post-Doc: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

PhD: Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

• Schmid MC, Maier A. To see or not to see - Thalamo-cortical networks during blindsight and perceptual suppression. Progress in Neurobiology 2015, 126, 36-48.
• Schmiedt JT, Maier A, Fries P, Saunders R, Leopold DA, Schmid MC. Beta Oscillation Dynamics in Extrastriate Cortex after Removal of Primary Visual Cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience 2014, 34(35), 11857-11864.
• Schmid MC, Schmiedt JT, Peters AJ, Saunders RC, Maier A, Leopold DA. Motion-Sensitive Responses in Visual Area V4 in the Absence of Primary Visual Cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience 2013, 33(48), 18740-18745.
• Cox MA, Schmid MC, Peters AJ, Saunders RC, Leopold DA, Maier A. Receptive field focus of visual areas V4 neurons determines responses to illusory surfaces. PNAS 2013, 110(42), 17095-17100.
• Schmid MC, Mrowka SW, Turchi J, Saunders R, Wilke M, Peters AJ, Ye FQ, Leopold DA. Blindsight depends on the lateral geniculate nucleus. Nature 2010, 466(7304), 373-377.
• Schmid MC, Panagiotaropoulos T, Augath M, Logothetis NK, Smirnakis SM. Visually Driven Activation in Macaque Areas V2 and V3 without Input from the Primary Visual Cortex. PloS ONE 2009, 4(5), e5527.
• Hoffman KL, Gothard KM, Schmid MC, Logothetis NK. Facial expression- and gaze-selective responses in the temporal lobe of the macaque. Current Biology 2007, 17(9), 766-772.
• Smirnakis SM, Schmid MC, Weber B, Tolias AS, Augath M, Logothetis NK. Mapping Cortical Organization: Differences in Spatial Specificity of BOLD versus Cerebral Blood Volume fMRI. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 2007, 27(6).
• Schmid MC, Oeltermann A, Juchem C, Smirnakis SM, Logothetis NK. Simultaneous EEG and fMRI in the macaque monkey at 4.7 T. Magnetic Resonance Imaging 2006, 24(4), 335-42. In Preparation.
• Smirnakis SM, Brewer AA, Schmid MC, Tolias AS, Schüz A, Augath M, Inhoffen W, Wandell BA, Logothetis NK. Lack of long-term cortical reorganization after macaque retinal lesions. Nature 2005, 435, 300-307.
• Schmid MC, Keliris G. Filling-in or filling-out: Patterns of short-term plasticity in visual cortex. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2014, 18(7), 342-344.
• Schmid MC, Singer W, Fries P. Thalamic control of cortical communication. Neuron 2012, 75(4), 551-552.
• Smirnakis SM, Schmid MC, Brewer AA, Tolias AS, Schüz A, Augath MA, Inhoffen W, Wandell BA, Logothetis NK. Neuroscience: Rewiring the adult brain (Reply). Nature 2005.
• Klein C, Evrard HC, Shapcott KA, Haverkamp S, Logothetis NK, Schmid MC. Cell-Targeted Optogenetics and Electrical Microstimulation Reveal the Primate Koniocellular Projection to Supra-granular Visual Cortex. Neuron 2016, 90(1), 143-151.
• Dougherty K, Schmid MC, Maier A. Binocular response modulation in the lateral geniculate nucleus. Journal of Comparative Neurology 2019, 527(3), 522-534.
• Hindriks R, Schmiedt J, Arsiwalla XD, Peter A, Verschure PFMJ, Fries P, Schmid MC, Deco G. Linear distributed source modeling of local field potentials recorded with intra-cortical electrode arrays. PLoS ONE 2017, 12(12), e0187490.
• Galvan A, Stauffer WR, Acker L, El-Shamayleh Y, Inoue K-I, Ohayon S, Schmid MC. Nonhuman primate optogenetics: Recent advances and future directions. Journal of Neuroscience 2017, 37(45), 10894-10903.
• Kurtz P, Shapcott KA, Kaiser J, Schmiedt JT, Schmid MC. The Influence of Endogenous and Exogenous Spatial Attention on Decision Confidence. Scientific Reports 2017, 7, 6431.
• Shapcott KA, Schmiedt JT, Saunders RC, Maier A, Leopold DA, Schmid MC. Correlated activity of cortical neurons survives extensive removal of feedforward sensory input. Scientific Reports 2016, 6, 34886.