Preserved neural dynamics across animals performing similar behaviour

M Safaie, JC Chang, J Park, LE Miller, JT Dudman… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Animals of the same species exhibit similar behaviours that are advantageously adapted to
their body and environment. These behaviours are shaped at the species level by selection …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear manifolds underlie neural population activity during behaviour

C Fortunato, J Bennasar-Vázquez, J Park, JC Chang… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
There is rich variety in the activity of single neurons recorded during behaviour. Yet, these
diverse single neuron responses can be well described by relatively few patterns of neural …

De novo sensorimotor learning through reuse of movement components

G Gabriel, F Mushtaq, JR Morehead - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
From tying one's shoelaces to driving a car, complex skills involving the coordination of
multiple muscles are common in everyday life; yet relatively little is known about how these …

Learning reshapes the hippocampal representation hierarchy

HSC Chiossi, M Nardin, G Tkacik, JL Csicsvari - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
A key feature of biological and artificial neural networks is the progressive refinement of their
neural representations with experience. In neuroscience, this fact has inspired several …

[PDF][PDF] Neural population mechanisms of reward-mediated performance

A Smoulder - 2024 - kilthub.cmu.edu
In professional sports, situations occasionally arise where the outcome of a game or even an
entire season comes down to a single action by a single player. During a 2015 National …