Motor cortex activity across movement speeds is predicted by network-level strategies for generating muscle activity

Kavli Affiliate: Mark Churchland | Authors: Shreya Saxena, Abigail Russo, John Cunningham and Mark M Churchland | Summary: Learned movements can be skillfully performed at different paces. What neural strategies produce this flexibility? Can they be predicted and understood by network modeling? We trained monkeys to perform a cycling task at different speeds, and trained […]


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Reconstitution of renal cyst formation in 3D culture reveals a role for AMOT and Yap1 in determining cyst size.

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Min | Authors: Clark D Wells, Kevin Lange, Abigail F Thompson, Wei Min Xu, Sherry G Clendenon, John S Underwood, Peter Harris, Britney-Shea Herbert, James A. Glazier, Angela Wandinger-Ness and Robert L Bacallao | Summary: Despite substantial progress in identifying and understanding causative mutations in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), little […]


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Face familiarity detection with complex synapses

Kavli Affiliate: Stefano Fusi | Authors: Li Ji-An, Fabio Stefanini, Marcus K Benna and Stefano Fusi | Summary: Synaptic plasticity is a complex phenomenon involving multiple biochemical processes that operate on different timescales. We recently showed that this complexity can greatly increase the memory capacity of neural networks when the variables that characterize the synaptic […]


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Decision formation in parietal cortex transcends a fixed frame of reference

Kavli Affiliate: Michael N Shadlen | Authors: NaYoung So and Michael N Shadlen | Summary: Neurons in the lateral intraparietal cortex (area LIP) represent the formation of a decision when it is linked to a specific action, such as an eye movement to a choice target. However, these neurons should be unable to represent a […]


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Transient oscillations of neural firing rate associated with routing of evidence in a perceptual decision

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Shadlen | Authors: Naomi N Odean, Mehdi Sanayei and Michael N Shadlen | Summary: Abstract To form a perceptual decision the brain must acquire samples of evidence from the environment and incorporate them in computations that mediate choice behavior. While much is known about the neural circuits that process sensory information and […]


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A positively Tuned Voltage Indicator Reveals Electrical Correlates of Calcium Activity in the Brain

Kavli Affiliate: Attila Losonczy | Authors: S. Wenceslao Evans, Dongqing Shi, Mariya Chavarha, Mark H. Plitt, Jiannis Taxidis, Blake Madruga, Siri C. van Keulen, Michelle M. Pang, Sharon Su, Fuu-Jiun Hwang, Guofeng Zhang, Austin Reese, Lagnajeet Pradhan, Jiang Lan Fan, Sungmoo Lee, Yu Liu, Carl-Mikael Suomivuori, Dongyun Jiang, Adrian Negrean, Sui Wang, Na Ji, Thomas […]


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Signatures of visuospatial information foraging during learning of complex environments

Kavli Affiliate: Daphna Shohamy | Authors: David L Barack, Akram Bakkour, Daphna Shohamy and C Daniel Salzman | Summary: Abstract In the real world, making sequences of decisions to achieve goals often depends upon the ability to learn aspects of the environment that are not directly perceptible. Learning these so-called latent features requires seeking information […]


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Alzheimer’s-associated upregulation of mitochondria-associated ER membranes after traumatic brain injury

Kavli Affiliate: Daphna Shohamy | Authors: Jonathan Nicholas, Christian Amlang, Chi-Ying Lin, Leila Montaser-Kouhsari, Natasha Desai, Ming-Kai Pan, Sheng-Han Kuo and Daphna Shohamy | Summary: Abstract Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can lead to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) through mechanisms that remain incompletely characterized. Similar to AD, TBI models present with cellular metabolic […]


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