Kenneth D. Harris is a

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University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. He is most known for his contributions to the understanding of the

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used by vast populations of

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s. Among his discoveries is the finding that populations in sensory areas of the brain also code for body movements. Harris has contributed to the development of silicon probes and most recently of Neuropixels probes. With these probes, he and his team discovered that engagement in a task activates neurons throughout the brain. Harris obtained his PhD from UCL in the laboratory of Michael Recce, and did his postdoctoral studies at

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in the laboratory of Gyorgy Buzsaki. He is a Professor of Quantitative Neuroscience at the

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, where he co-directs the Cortical Processing Laboratory with

Matteo Carandini Matteo Carandini (born 1967) is a neuroscientist who studies the visual system. He is currently a professor at University College London, where he co-directs thCortical Processing Laboratorywith Kenneth D Harris. He studies the visual cortex at ...

. Harris is a founding member of the

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