Kavli Affiliate: Michael Shadlen | Authors: Anne Löffler, Ariel Zylberberg, Michael N. Shadlen and Daniel M Wolpert | Summary: Deciding how difficult it is going to be to perform a task allows us to choose between tasks, allocate appropriate resources, and predict future performance. To be useful for planning, difficulty judgments should not require completion […]
Kavli Affiliate: Terrence Sejnowski | Authors: Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana, Robert Kim, Thiparat Chotibut and Terrence Sejnowski | Summary: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) based on model neurons that communicate via continuous signals have been widely used to study how cortical neurons perform cognitive tasks. Training such networks to perform tasks that require information maintenance over a brief […]
Kavli Affiliate: Charles M. Rice | Authors: Shira Weingarten-Gabbay, Da-Yuan Chen, Siranush Sarkizova, Hannah B Taylor, Matteo Gentili, Leah R Pearlman, Matthew R Bauer, Charles M Rice, Karl R Clauser, Nir Hacohen, Steven A Carr, Jennifer G Abelin, Mohsan Saeed and Pardis C Sabeti | Summary: Targeted synthetic vaccines have the potential to transform our […]
Kavli Affiliate: Cory Miller | Authors: Timothy Tyree, Michael Metke and Cory Miller | Summary: Faces and voices are the dominant social signals used to recognize individuals amongst human and nonhuman primates (1–4). Yet it is not known how these critical signals are integrated into a cross-modal representation of individual identity in the primate brain. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kathleen Cullen | Authors: Oliver R Stanley, Ananya Swaminathan, Elias Wojahn, Zubair M Ahmed and Kathleen E Cullen | Summary: Quantifying behavior and relating it to underlying biological states is of paramount importance in many life science fields. Although barriers to recording postural data have been reduced by progress in deep-learning-based computer vision […]
Kavli Affiliate: Kathleen Cullen | Authors: Arnaud P. J. Giese, Wei-Hsiang Weng, Katie S Kindt, Vanessa H. H. Chang, Jonathan S Montgomery, Evan M. Ratzan, Alisha J. Beirl, Roberto Aponte Rivera, Jeffrey M. Lotthammer, Sanket Walujkar, Mark P. Foster, Omid A. Zobeiri, Jeffrey R. Holt, Saima Riazuddin, Kathleen E. Cullen, Marcos Sotomayor and Zubair M […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Ellisman | Authors: Yaeram Jeong, chung-ha Davis, Aaron Muscarella, Viraj Deshpande, Keun-Young Kim, Mark Ellisman and Nicholas Marsh-Armstrong | Summary: We previously described a process referred to as transmitophagy where mitochondria shed by retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons are transferred to and degraded by surrounding astrocytes in the optic nerve head of […]
Kavli Affiliate: Mark Ellisman | Authors: George A. Spirou, Matthew Kersting, Sean Carr, Bayan Razzaq, Carolyna Y. Alves-Pinto, Mariah Dawson, Mark H. Ellisman and Paul B. Manis | Summary: Globular bushy cells (GBCs) of the cochlear nucleus play central roles in the temporal processing of sound. Despite investigation over many decades, fundamental questions remain about […]
Kavli Affiliate: Liam Paninski | Authors: Marcus A Triplett, Marta Gajowa, Hillel Adesnik and Liam Paninski | Summary: Two-photon optogenetics has transformed our ability to probe the structure and function of neural circuits. However, achieving precise optogenetic control of neural ensemble activity has remained fundamentally constrained by the problem of off-target stimulation (OTS): the inadvertent […]
Kavli Affiliate: Hey-Kyoung Lee, Richard Huganir | Authors: Yoichi Araki, Elizabeth E. Gerber, Kacey E. Rajkovich, Ingie Hong, Richard C. Johnson, Hey-Kyoung Lee, Alfredo Kirkwood and Richard L. Huganir | Summary: SYNGAP1 is a Ras-GTPase activating protein highly enriched at excitatory synapses in the brain. De novo loss-of-function mutations in SYNGAP1 are a major cause […]