Research Interests I am interested in the relationship between the environment, neural responses and behavior. The focus of my research is on the neural representation of natural statistics and how information is generated and integrated by populations of neurons that control behavior.Projects I study how neural systems perform statistical inference by applying Bayesian theory to the owl’s auditory system. I combine physiology, behavior and modeling to elucidate the neural substrate underlying the representation of likelihood functions and determine the importance of prior distributions on the owl’s sound localization bias. Publications Cazettes F, Fischer BJ, Pena JL (2016) Cue reliability represented in the shape of tuning curves in the owl's sound localization system. The Journal of Neuroscience. 36:2101-2110. PubmedRich D, Cazettes F, Wang Y, Pena JL, Fischer BJ (2015) Neural representation of probabilities for Bayesian inference. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 10.1007/s10827-014-0545-1. LinkCazettes F, Fischer BJ, Pena JL (2014) Spatial cue reliability drives frequency tuning in the Barn Owl's midbrain. eLife. 10.7554/eLife.04854. PubmedCohen JI, Cazettes F, Convit A (2011) Abnormal cholesterol is associated with prefrontal white matter abnormalities among obese adults, a diffusion tensor imaging study. Neuroradiology Journal. 1:989-997. PubmedCazettes F, Tsui W, Johnson G, Steen RG, Convit A (2011) Systematic differences between lean and obese adolescents in brain parameters: A quantitative magnetic resonance imaging study. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 32: 2037-2042. PubmedAl-ani T, Cazettes F, Palfi S, Lefaucheur JP (2011) Automatic removal of high-amplitude stimulus artefact from neuronal signal recorded in the subthalamic nucleus. The Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 198: 135-146. PubmedCazettes F, Yau PL, Cohen JI, Talbot H, Convit A (2011) Obesity-mediated inflammation may damage the brain circuit that regulates food intake. Brain Research. 1373:101-109. PubmedIn the news:20th Annual Julius Marmur Symposium. Link and Feature article
Decoding behaviour: An interview with Fanny Cazettes, eLife. Link A fat tummy shrivels your brain (2001), New Scientist. Link