Causes and consequences of representational drift

ME Rule, T O'Leary, CD Harvey - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Experimental advances allow us to see long-term drift in neural
representations.•Drift challenges classical notions of receptive fields and engrams.•Drift is …

Estimation of current and future physiological states in insular cortex

Y Livneh, AU Sugden, JC Madara, RA Essner… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Interoception, the sense of internal bodily signals, is essential for physiological homeostasis,
cognition, and emotions. While human insular cortex (InsCtx) is implicated in interoception …

How 'visual'is the visual cortex? The interactions between the visual cortex and other sensory, motivational and motor systems as enabling factors for visual perception

CMA Pennartz, MN Oude Lohuis… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The definition of the visual cortex is primarily based on the evidence that lesions of this area
impair visual perception. However, this does not exclude that the visual cortex may process …

Value-guided remapping of sensory cortex by lateral orbitofrontal cortex

A Banerjee, G Parente, J Teutsch, C Lewis, FF Voigt… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Adaptive behaviour crucially depends on flexible decision-making, which in mammals relies
on the frontal cortex, specifically the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC),,,,,,,–. How OFC encodes …

State-specific gating of salient cues by midbrain dopaminergic input to basal amygdala

A Lutas, H Kucukdereli, O Alturkistani, C Carty… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Basal amygdala (BA) neurons guide associative learning via acquisition of responses to
stimuli that predict salient appetitive or aversive outcomes. We examined the learning-and …

Mouse visual cortex areas represent perceptual and semantic features of learned visual categories

PM Goltstein, S Reinert, T Bonhoeffer… - Nature neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
Associative memories are stored in distributed networks extending across multiple brain
regions. However, it is unclear to what extent sensory cortical areas are part of these …

Reward association enhances stimulus-specific representations in primary visual cortex

JU Henschke, E Dylda, D Katsanevaki, N Dupuy… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
The potential for neuronal representations of external stimuli to be modified by previous
experience is critical for efficient sensory processing and improved behavioral outcomes. To …

The temporal association cortex plays a key role in auditory-driven maternal plasticity

G Tasaka, L Feigin, I Maor, M Groysman, LA DeNardo… - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Mother-infant bonding develops rapidly following parturition and is accompanied by
changes in sensory perception and behavior. Here, we study how ultrasonic vocalizations …

Cellular and widefield imaging of sound frequency organization in primary and higher order fields of the mouse auditory cortex

S Romero, AE Hight, KK Clayton, J Resnik… - Cerebral …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The mouse auditory cortex (ACtx) contains two core fields—primary auditory cortex (A1) and
anterior auditory field (AAF)—arranged in a mirror reversal tonotopic gradient. The best …

Cortical reactivations predict future sensory responses

ND Nguyen, A Lutas, O Amsalem, J Fernando… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Many theories of offline memory consolidation posit that the pattern of neurons activated
during a salient sensory experience will be faithfully reactivated, thereby stabilizing the …