J Patrick Mayo

  • Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

Education & Training

  • Senior Research Associate - Laboratory of Dr. Stephen Lisberger, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University
  • Postdoctoral Associate - Laboratory of Dr. John Maunsell, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
  • Ph.D. - Laboratory of Dr. Marc Sommer, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh

Representative Publications

1. Guidera, JA, Taylor, NE, Lee, JT, Vlasov, KY, Pei, J, Stephen, EP, Mayo, JP, Brown, EN, and Solt, K.  Sevoflurane induces coherent slow-delta oscillations in rats. Front Sys Neurosci 11 (36), 2017. 


2. Mayo, JP and Maunsell, JHR.  Graded neuronal modulations related to visual spatial attention.  J Neurosci 36 (19), 2016.


3. Mayo, JP, Morrison, RM, Smith, MA.  A Probabilistic Approach to Receptive Field Mapping in the Frontal Eye Fields. Front Sys Neurosci 10 (25), 2016.


4. Mayo, JP, Cohen, MR, and Maunsell, JHR.  A Refined Neuronal Population Measure of Visual Attention. PLoS One 10 (8), 2015.


5. Mayo, JP, DiTomasso AR, Sommer MA, Smith MA. Dynamics of visual receptive fields in the macaque frontal eye field.  J Neurophys 114 (6), 2015.

6. Mayo, JP and Sommer, MA.  Neuronal correlates of visual event timing at brief timescales.  Proc Natl Acad Sci 110 (4), 2013.


7. Botvinick, MM, Wang, J, Cowan, E, Roy, S, Bastianen, C, Mayo, JP, and Houk, JC.  An analysis of immediate serial recall performance in a macaque.  Animal Cognition 12 (5), 2009.


8. Mayo, JP and Sommer, MA.  Neuronal adaptation caused by sequential visual stimulation in the frontal eye field.  J Neurophys 100 (4), 2008.

Dr. Mayo's Publications

Research Interests

Cortical control of vision and eye movements in populations of neurons
Neural coordination of oculomotor plans
Influence of eye movements on vision and behavior

Graduate Program

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