Novel cerebello-amygdala connections provide missing link between cerebellum and limbic system

SJ Jung, K Vlasov, AF D'Ambra, A Parigi… - Frontiers in systems …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The cerebellum is emerging as a powerful regulator of cognitive and affective processing
and memory in both humans and animals and has been implicated in affective disorders …

Emergence of co-tuning in inhibitory neurons as a network phenomenon mediated by randomness, correlations, and homeostatic plasticity

F Lagzi, AL Fairhall - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
Cortical excitatory neurons show clear tuning to stimulus features, but the tuning properties
of inhibitory interneurons are ambiguous. While inhibitory neurons have been considered to …

Cerebellum involvement in dystonia during associative motor learning: insights from a data-driven spiking network model

A Geminiani, A Mockevičius, E D'Angelo… - Frontiers in Systems …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Dystonia is a movement disorder characterized by sustained or intermittent muscle
contractions causing abnormal, often repetitive movements, postures, or both. Although …

[HTML][HTML] Deploying and optimizing embodied simulations of large-scale spiking neural networks on HPC infrastructure

B Feldotto, JM Eppler, C Jimenez-Romero… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Simulating the brain-body-environment trinity in closed loop is an attractive proposal to
investigate how perception, motor activity and interactions with the environment shape brain …

Global organization of neuronal activity only requires unstructured local connectivity

D Dahmen, M Layer, L Deutz, PA Dąbrowska, N Voges… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Modern electrophysiological recordings simultaneously capture single-unit spiking activities
of hundreds of neurons spread across large cortical distances. Yet, this parallel activity is …

Benchmarking neuromorphic hardware and its energy expenditure

C Ostrau, C Klarhorst, M Thies, U Rückert - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
We propose and discuss a platform overarching benchmark suite for neuromorphic
hardware. This suite covers benchmarks from low-level characterization to high-level …

Flexible spiking CPGs for online manipulation during hexapod walking

B Strohmer, P Manoonpong, LB Larsen - Frontiers in neurorobotics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neural signals for locomotion are influenced both by the neural network architecture and
sensory inputs coordinating and adapting the gait to the environment. Adaptation relies on …

[HTML][HTML] Role of interneuron subtypes in controlling trial-by-trial output variability in the neocortex

L Guo, A Kumar - Communications Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Trial-by-trial variability is a ubiquitous property of neuronal activity in vivo which shapes the
stimulus response. Computational models have revealed how local network structure and …

Integrating non-spiking interneurons in spiking neural networks

B Strohmer, RK Stagsted, P Manoonpong… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Researchers working with neural networks have historically focused on either non-spiking
neurons tractable for running on computers or more biologically plausible spiking neurons …

Brain-inspired spiking neural network controller for a neurorobotic whisker system

A Antonietti, A Geminiani, E Negri, E D'Angelo… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
It is common for animals to use self-generated movements to actively sense the surrounding
environment. For instance, rodents rhythmically move their whiskers to explore the space …