Larry Abbott

Larry Abbott (born 1950) is the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University, where he helped create the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. He is widely regarded as one of the leaders of theoretical neuroscience, and is coauthor on the first comprehensive textbook on theoretical neuroscience.

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• Larry abbott columbia rate and spiking models for timing tasks
• Eve marder tony movshon larry abbott
• Awards and honors
• References

He was originally a theoretical particle physicist at Brandeis University, but joined Eve Marder’s laboratory in 1998 and spent the next 10 years there studying neural networks. Along with Marder, he helped invent the dynamic clamp technique.

In 2004, he moved from Brandeis to Columbia.