Attention in flux

AC Nobre, F van Ede - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Selective attention comprises essential infrastructural functions supporting cognition—
anticipating, prioritizing, selecting, routing, integrating, and preparing signals to guide …

[HTML][HTML] Activity map of a cortico-cerebellar loop underlying motor planning

J Zhu, H Hasanbegović, LD Liu, Z Gao, N Li - Nature neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
The neocortex and cerebellum interact to mediate cognitive functions. It remains unknown
how the two structures organize into functional networks to mediate specific behaviors. Here …

Self-motion perception and sequential decision-making: where are we heading?

SJ Jerjian, DR Harsch… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
To navigate and guide adaptive behaviour in a dynamic environment, animals must
accurately estimate their own motion relative to the external world. This is a fundamentally …

[HTML][HTML] Brain-wide neural activity underlying memory-guided movement

S Chen, Y Liu, ZA Wang, J Colonell, LD Liu, H Hou… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Behavior relies on activity in structured neural circuits that are distributed across the brain,
but most experiments probe neurons in a single area at a time. Using multiple Neuropixels …

[PDF][PDF] Tools for comprehensive reconstruction and analysis of Drosophila motor circuits

A Azevedo, E Lesser, B Mark, J Phelps, L Elabbady… - BioRxiv, 2022 - scholar.archive.org
Like the vertebrate spinal cord, the insect ventral nerve cord (VNC) mediates limb sensation
and motor control. Here, we applied automated tools for electron microscopy (EM) volume …

[HTML][HTML] Multimodal measures of spontaneous brain activity reveal both common and divergent patterns of cortical functional organization

H Vafaii, F Mandino, G Desrosiers-Grégoire… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Large-scale functional networks have been characterized in both rodent and human brains,
typically by analyzing fMRI-BOLD signals. However, the relationship between fMRI-BOLD …

CORNN: Convex optimization of recurrent neural networks for rapid inference of neural dynamics

F Dinc, A Shai, M Schnitzer… - Advances in Neural …, 2023 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Advances in optical and electrophysiological recording technologies have made it possible
to record the dynamics of thousands of neurons, opening up new possibilities for interpreting …

Hypothalamic control of forelimb motor adaptation

D Donegan, CM Kanzler, J Büscher… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
The ability to perform skilled arm movements is central to everyday life, as limb impairments
in common neurologic disorders such as stroke demonstrate. Skilled arm movements …

To be and not to be: wide-field Ca2+ imaging reveals neocortical functional segmentation combines stability and flexibility

AK Nietz, ML Streng, LS Popa, RE Carter… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The stability and flexibility of the functional parcellation of the cerebral cortex is fundamental
to how familiar and novel information is both represented and stored. We leveraged new …

Neuropeptide signaling is required to implement a line attractor encoding a persistent internal behavioral state

G Mountoufaris, A Nair, B Yang, DW Kim, DJ Anderson - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Internal states drive survival behaviors, but their neural implementation is not well
understood. Recently we identified a line attractor in the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) …