Not so spontaneous: Multi-dimensional representations of behaviors and context in sensory areas

L Avitan, C Stringer - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Sensory areas are spontaneously active in the absence of sensory stimuli. This
spontaneous activity has long been studied; however, its functional role remains largely …

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 …

Distributed context-dependent choice information in mouse posterior cortex

JG Orlandi, M Abdolrahmani, R Aoki… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Choice information appears in multi-area brain networks mixed with sensory, motor, and
cognitive variables. In the posterior cortex—traditionally implicated in decision computations …

Discretized representations in V1 predict suboptimal orientation discrimination

J Corbo, OB Erkat, J McClure Jr, H Khdour… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Neuronal population activity in sensory cortices is the substrate for perceptual decisions.
Yet, we still do not understand how neuronal information content in sensory cortices relates …

Regularizing hyperparameters of interacting neural signals in the mouse cortex reflect states of arousal

DR Lyamzin, A Alamia, M Abdolrahmani… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
In natural behaviors, multiple neural signals simultaneously drive activation across
overlapping brain networks. Due to limitations in the amount of data that can be acquired in …

Motor-related signals support localization invariance for stable visual perception

A Benucci - PLoS computational biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Our ability to perceive a stable visual world in the presence of continuous movements of the
body, head, and eyes has puzzled researchers in the neuroscience field for a long time. We …

Thalamocortical control of cell-type specificity drives circuits for processing whisker-related information in mouse barrel cortex

TR Young, M Yamamoto, SS Kikuchi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Excitatory spiny stellate neurons are prominently featured in the cortical circuits of sensory
modalities that provide high salience and high acuity representations of the environment …

Automated phenotyping of postoperative delirium-like behaviour in mice reveals the therapeutic efficacy of dexmedetomidine

S Cao, Y Wu, Z Gao, J Tang, L Xiong, J Hu… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Postoperative delirium (POD) is a complicated and harmful clinical syndrome. Traditional
behaviour analysis mostly focuses on static parameters. However, animal behaviour is a …

Modulation of cortical representations of sensory and contextual information underlies aversive associative learning

J Dai, QQ Sun - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Cortical neurons encode both sensory and contextual information, yet it remains unclear
how experiences modulate these cortical representations. Here, we demonstrate that trace …

Efficient coding of natural images in the mouse visual cortex

F Bolaños, JG Orlandi, R Aoki, AV Jagadeesh… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
How the activity of neurons gives rise to natural vision remains a matter of intense
investigation. The mid-level visual areas along the ventral stream are selective to a common …