Kavli Affiliate: Xiaoqin Wang | Authors: Liam Paninski and Nathaniel Sawtell | Summary: To understand the neural basis of behavior, it is essential to sensitively and accurately measure neural activity at single neuron and single spike resolution. Extracellular electrophysiology delivers this, but it has biases in the neurons it detects and it imperfectly resolves their […]
Kavli Affiliate: Vincent Ferrera | Authors: Samuel Lippl, Kenneth Kay, Greg Jensen, Vincent P. Ferrera and L.F. Abbott | Summary: Humans and animals routinely infer relations between different items or events and generalize these relations to novel combinations of items (“compositional generalization”). This allows them to respond appropriately to radically novel circumstances and is fundamental […]
Kavli Affiliate: Elizabeth Hillman | Authors: Sam E. Benezra, Kripa B. Patel, Citlali Pérez Campos, Elizabeth M. C. Hillman and Randy M Bruno | Summary: Learning alters cortical representations and improves perception. Apical tuft dendrites in Layer 1, which are unique in their connectivity and biophysical properties, may be a key site of learning-induced plasticity. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Scott Small | Authors: Gabrielle C. Coffing, Silas Tittes, Scott T. Small, Jeremea O. Songco-Casey, Denise M. Piscopo, Judit R. Pungor, Adam C Miller, Cristopher Niell and Andrew D. Kern | Summary: Sex chromosomes are critical elements of sexual reproduction in many animal and plant taxa, however they show incredible diversity and rapid […]
Kavli Affiliate: Franck Polleux Attila Losonczy | Authors: Justin K. O’Hare, Jamie Wang, Margjele D. Shala, Franck Polleux and Attila Losonczy | Summary: Hippocampal pyramidal neurons support episodic memory by integrating complementary information streams into new ‘place fields’. Distal tuft dendrites are thought to initiate place field formation via plateau potentials. However, the hitherto experimental […]
Kavli Affiliate: Liam Paninski | Authors: Ankit Vishnubhotla, Charlotte Loh, Liam Paninski, Akash Srivastava and Cole Lincoln Hurwitz | Summary: Contrastive learning is quickly becoming an essential tool in neuroscience for extracting robust and meaningful representations of neural activity. Despite numerous applications to neuronal population data, there has been little exploration of how these methods […]
Kavli Affiliate: Franck Polleux | Authors: Yusuke Hirabayashi, Tommy L Lewis, Jr., Yudan Du, Daniel M Virga, Aubrianna Decker, Giovanna Coceano, Jonatan Alvelid, Maela Paul, Stevie Hamilton, Parker Kneis, Yasufumi Takahashi, Jellert Gaublomme, Ilaria Testa and Franck Polleux | Summary: In neurons of the mammalian central nervous system (CNS), axonal mitochondria are thought to be […]
Kavli Affiliate: Attila Losonczy | Authors: Zhenrui Liao, Kevin Christian Gonzalez, Deborah Li, Catalina Yang, Donald Holder, Natalie McClain, Guofeng Zhang, Stephen Evans, Maria Chavarha, Jane Yi, Christopher Makinson, Michael Lin, Attila Losonczy and Adrian Negrean | Summary: Fast electrical signaling in dendrites is central to neural computations that support adaptive behaviors. Conventional techniques lack […]
Kavli Affiliate: Liam Paninski Mark Churchland | Authors: Andrew J Zimnik, K. Cora Ames, Xinyue An, Laura Driscoll, Antonio H Lara, Abigail A Russo, Vladislav Susoy, John P Cunningham, Liam Paninski, Mark M Churchland and Joshua I Glaser | Summary: In many neural populations, the computationally relevant signals are posited to be a set of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Michael Shadlen | Authors: Shinichiro Kira, Ariel Zylberberg and Michael N Shadlen | Summary: Abstract Many decisions benefit from the accumulation of evidence obtained sequentially over time. In such circumstances, the decision maker must balance speed against accuracy, and the nature of this tradeoff mediates competing desiderata and costs, especially those associated with […]