A central goal of neuroscience is to understand the representations formed by brain activity
patterns and their connection to behaviour. The classic approach is to investigate how …

Sensory responses and behavior are strongly shaped by stimulus history. For example,
perceptual reports are sometimes biased toward previously viewed stimuli (serial …

In the natural environment, organisms are constantly exposed to a continuous stream of
sensory input. The dynamics of sensory input changes with organism's behaviour and …

Neural activity and perception are both affected by sensory history. The work presented here
explores the relationship between the physiological effects of adaptation and their …

Exposure of cortical cells to sustained sensory stimuli results in changes in the neuronal
response function. This phenomenon, known as adaptation, is a common feature across …

The precision of the neural code is commonly investigated using two families of statistical
measures: Shannon mutual information and derived quantities when investigating very …

Sensory information is encoded in the response of neuronal populations. How might this
information be decoded by downstream neurons? Here we analyzed the responses of …

The efficient coding hypothesis predicts that sensory neurons adjust their coding resources
to optimally represent the stimulus statistics of their environment. To test this prediction in the …

Nearsightedness (myopia) is a global health problem of staggering proportions that has
driven the hunt for environmental and genetic risk factors in hopes of gaining insight into the …

We showed recently that exposure to whisker vibrations enhances coding efficiency in rat
barrel cortex despite increasing correlations in variability. Here, to understand how …