Rearing condition affects behavioral response to cross-modal expectancy violation paradigm in zebra finche

Kavli Affiliate: Sarah Woolley | Authors: Isabella Catalano and Sarah Cushing Woolley | Summary: Interacting in a multimodal world, including recognizing other individuals across multiple sensory modalities, is important for animals who rely on social relationships for survival. Social and sensory experiences shape how multisensory information is processed and integrated; however, we have less understanding […]


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Prediction of Polygenic Risks by Screening Thousands of Polygenic Scores

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Min | Authors: Wei-Min Chen, Ani Manichaikul, Suna Onengut-Gumuscu, Bradford B Worrall and Stephen S Rich | Summary: Rationale A polygenic score (PGS) summarizes a person’s genetic information in a single number for a trait, and its utility in genomic medicine is well-recognized. Although PGS models have been generated for many traits, […]


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Single-Neuron Encoding of Learnability in the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Kavli Affiliate: Vincent Ferrera and Jacqueline Gottlieb | Authors: Yuhao Jin, Greg Jensen, Vincent Ferrera and Jacqueline Gottlieb | Summary: In natural environments, associations that indicate true learnable regularities are intermixed with those that arise from random and ultimately unlearnable relationships between events. To efficiently allocate cognitive resources and avoid inferring spurious patterns, organisms must […]


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Impact of Task Similarity and Training Regimes on Cognitive Transfer and Interference

Kavli Affiliate: Stefano Fusi | Authors: Nicholas Menghi, Simone Vigano’, William Jeffrey Johnston, Salma Elnagar, Stefano Fusi and Christian F Doeller | Summary: Learning depends not only on the content of what we learn, but also on how we learn and on how experiences are structured over time. To investigate how task similarity and training […]


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Internal and external contexts drive distinct dynamics in shared action-encoding striatal neurons

Kavli Affiliate: Rui Costa | Authors: Tanya Sippy, Jan L. Klee, Sulekh Fernando-Peiris, Sahil Suresh, Ines Rodrigues-Vaz, Rui M. Costa and Vivek R. Athalye | Summary: Animals can flexibly initiate actions guided by external cues or by internal drive. Disease states often disrupt cue-driven and self-paced actions in distinct ways, underscoring separable neural mechanisms. Such […]


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Endothelial Type I Interferon signaling modulates the vascular response to ischemic brain injury

Kavli Affiliate: Elizabeth Hillman | Authors: Mary Claire Tuohy, Ping-Chang Kuo, Adrian Chelminski, Eti Muharremi, Claudia DeSantis, Aomeng Cui, Alicia Russo, Danny Jamoul, Elizabeth Hillman, John F Crary, Jui-Hung Jimmy Yen and Dritan Agalliu | Summary: Vascular normalization [stabilization of aberrant angiogenesis and restoration of blood-brain barrier (BBB)] is critical for reducing long-term secondary sequelae […]


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ALM enables contextual decision-making via dynamic reconfiguration of local circuits

Kavli Affiliate: Darcy Peterka and Michael Shadlen | Authors: Jia Shen, Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana, Prayshita Sharma, Darcy S. Peterka, Herbert Zheng Wu and Michael N. Shadlen | Summary: Cognitive operations often require flexible implementation of stimulus–response contingencies, depending on context. We developed an olfactory task in which mice learned to associate a test odor with a […]


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VesiclePy: A Machine Learning Vesicle Analysis Toolbox for Volume Electron Microscopy

Kavli Affiliate: Rafael Yuste | Authors: Jason Ken Adhinarta, Yutian Fan, Adam Gohain, Michael Lin, Paige Nurkin, Richard Ren, Micaela Roth, Shulin Zhang, Ayal Yakobe, Rafael Yuste and Donglai Wei | Summary: Vesicles are critical components of neurons that package neurotransmitters and neuropeptides for their release, in order to communicate with other neurons and cells. […]


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Motor cortex flexibly deploys a high-dimensional repertoire of subskills

Kavli Affiliate: Michael Shadlen and Mark Churchland | Authors: Elom A Amematsro, Eric M Trautmann, Najja J Marshall, LF Abbott, Michael N Shadlen, Daniel M Wolpert and Mark M Churchland | Summary: control strategies and underlying computations. How the motor system achieves such versatility remains unclear. Using high-density Neuropixels recordings from primary motor cortex (M1) […]


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Rare mutations implicate CGE interneurons as a vulnerable axis of cognitive deficits across psychiatric disorders

Kavli Affiliate: Attila Losonczy | Authors: Stephanie A Herrlinger, Jiayao Wang, Bovey Y Rao, Jonathan Chang, Joseph Gogos, Attila Losonczy and Dennis Vitkup | Summary: Neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SCZ) share genetic risk factors, including rare high penetrance single nucleotide variants and copy number variants (CNVs), and exhibit both […]


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