Large-scale neural recordings call for new insights to link brain and behavior

AE Urai, B Doiron, AM Leifer, AK Churchland - Nature neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Neuroscientists today can measure activity from more neurons than ever before, and are
facing the challenge of connecting these brain-wide neural recordings to computation and …

Deep learning for cellular image analysis

E Moen, D Bannon, T Kudo, W Graf, M Covert… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Recent advances in computer vision and machine learning underpin a collection of
algorithms with an impressive ability to decipher the content of images. These deep learning …

[HTML][HTML] SLEAP: A deep learning system for multi-animal pose tracking

TD Pereira, N Tabris, A Matsliah, DM Turner, J Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The desire to understand how the brain generates and patterns behavior has driven rapid
methodological innovation in tools to quantify natural animal behavior. While advances in …

Using DeepLabCut for 3D markerless pose estimation across species and behaviors

T Nath, A Mathis, AC Chen, A Patel, M Bethge… - Nature protocols, 2019 - nature.com
Noninvasive behavioral tracking of animals during experiments is critical to many scientific
pursuits. Extracting the poses of animals without using markers is often essential to …

Quantifying behavior to understand the brain

TD Pereira, JW Shaevitz, M Murthy - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past years, numerous methods have emerged to automate the quantification of
animal behavior at a resolution not previously imaginable. This has opened up a new field of …

Geometric deep learning enables 3D kinematic profiling across species and environments

TW Dunn, JD Marshall, KS Severson, DE Aldarondo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Comprehensive descriptions of animal behavior require precise three-dimensional (3D)
measurements of whole-body movements. Although two-dimensional approaches can track …

[PDF][PDF] The emergence and influence of internal states

SW Flavell, N Gogolla, M Lovett-Barron, M Zelikowsky - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Animal behavior is shaped by a variety of" internal states"—partially hidden variables that
profoundly shape perception, cognition, and action. The neural basis of internal states, such …

Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities

M Besson, J Alison, K Bjerge, TE Gorochowski… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
High‐resolution monitoring is fundamental to understand ecosystems dynamics in an era of
global change and biodiversity declines. While real‐time and automated monitoring of …

DeepPoseKit, a software toolkit for fast and robust animal pose estimation using deep learning

JM Graving, D Chae, H Naik, L Li, B Koger… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Quantitative behavioral measurements are important for answering questions across
scientific disciplines—from neuroscience to ecology. State-of-the-art deep-learning methods …

Single-trial neural dynamics are dominated by richly varied movements

S Musall, MT Kaufman, AL Juavinett, S Gluf… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
When experts are immersed in a task, do their brains prioritize task-related activity? Most
efforts to understand neural activity during well-learned tasks focus on cognitive …