Dr. Favorov was born in the U.S.S.R. and received his undergraduate
degree in Physical Anthropology from Moscow State University in 1977. After
moving to the United States in 1979, he entered graduate school at the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he received a doctorate
in Physiology in 1986. He did postdoctoral work at Rockefeller University,
New York, with Dr. Hiroshi Asanuma. He then subsequently returned to the
University of North Carolina, where he was an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Biomedical Engineering, doing neurophysiological experimental
and modeling studies of the somatosensory cortex. Dr. Favorov has been
a member of the faculty of UCF since 1999.
Research Interests
Functional organization of cerebral cortical networks and their contributions to sensory information processing; cerebral cortex as a computational system.
Selected Publications
Favorov, O., Sakamoto, T. and Asanuma, H. (1988) Functional role
of corticoperipheral loop circuits during voluntary movements in
the monkey: A preferential bias theory. J. Neuroscience
8: 3266-3277.
Favorov, O.V. and Diamond, M. (1990) Demonstration of discrete
place-defined columns, segregates, in cat SI. J. Comparative
Neurology 298: 97-112.
Tommerdahl, M., Favorov, O.V., Whitsel, B.L., Nakhle, B. and Gonchar,
Y.A. (1993) Minicolumnar activation patterns in cat and monkey
SI cortex. Cerebral Cortex 3: 399-411.
Favorov, O.V. and Kelly, D.G. (1994) Minicolumnar organization
within somatosensory cortical segregates: I. Development
of afferent connections. Cerebral Cortex 4: 408-427.
Favorov, O.V. and Kelly, D.G. (1994) Minicolumnar organization
within somatosensory cortical segregates: II. Emergent
functional properties. Cerebral Cortex 4: 428-442.
Hollins, M. and Favorov, O.V. (1994) The tactile movement aftereffect.
Somatosensory and Motor Research 11: 153-162.
Tommerdahl, M.. Whitsel, B.L., Vierck, C.J. Favorov, O., Juliano,
S., Cooper, B. Metz, C., and Nakhle, B. (1996) Effects
of spinal dorsal column transection on the response of monkey anterior
parietal cortex to repetitive skin stimulation. Cerebral Cortex
6: 131-155.
Favorov, O.V. and Kelly, D.G. (1996) Stimulus-response diversity
in local neuronal populations of the cerebral cortex. NeuroReport
7: 2293-2301.
Favorov, O.V. and Kelly, D.G. (1996) Local receptive field diversity
within cortical neuronal populations. In: Somesthesis and
the Neurobiology of the Somatosensory Cortex. O. Franzen, R.
Johansson and L. Terenius (eds.), Birkhauser Verlag AB, Basel, pp. 395-408.
Whitsel, B. L., Favorov, O., Delemos, K., Lee, C-J, Tommerdahl, M.,
Essick, G.K., and Nakhle, B. (1999) SI neuron response
variability is stimulus-tuned and NMDA receptor-dependent.
J. Neurophysiology 81: 2988 - 3006.
Tommerdahl, M., Delemos, K.A., Whitsel, B.L., Favorov, O.V., and Metz,
C.B. (1999) Response of anterior parietal cortex to cutaneous flutter
versus vibration. J. Neurophysiology 82: 16 - 33.