The structures and functions of correlations in neural population codes

S Panzeri, M Moroni, H Safaai… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The collective activity of a population of neurons, beyond the properties of individual cells, is
crucial for many brain functions. A fundamental question is how activity correlations between …

Computation through neural population dynamics

S Vyas, MD Golub, D Sussillo… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Significant experimental, computational, and theoretical work has identified rich structure
within the coordinated activity of interconnected neural populations. An emerging challenge …

Psilocybin therapy increases cognitive and neural flexibility in patients with major depressive disorder

MK Doss, M Považan, MD Rosenberg… - Translational …, 2021 - nature.com
Psilocybin has shown promise for the treatment of mood disorders, which are often
accompanied by cognitive dysfunction including cognitive rigidity. Recent studies have …

Shape perception via a high-channel-count neuroprosthesis in monkey visual cortex

X Chen, F Wang, E Fernandez, PR Roelfsema - Science, 2020 - science.org
Blindness affects 40 million people across the world. A neuroprosthesis could one day
restore functional vision in the blind. We implanted a 1024-channel prosthesis in areas V1 …

Neural tuning and representational geometry

N Kriegeskorte, XX Wei - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021 - nature.com
A central goal of neuroscience is to understand the representations formed by brain activity
patterns and their connection to behaviour. The classic approach is to investigate how …

Basal forebrain cholinergic circuits and signaling in cognition and cognitive decline

EC Ballinger, M Ananth, DA Talmage, LW Role - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
Recent work continues to place cholinergic circuits at center stage for normal executive and
mnemonic functioning and provides compelling evidence that the loss of cholinergic …

[HTML][HTML] Cortical areas interact through a communication subspace

JD Semedo, A Zandvakili, CK Machens, MY Byron… - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Most brain functions involve interactions among multiple, distinct areas or nuclei. For
instance, visual processing in primates requires the appropriate relaying of signals across …

Neuromodulation of brain state and behavior

DA McCormick, DB Nestvogel… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Neural activity and behavior are both notoriously variable, with responses differing widely
between repeated presentation of identical stimuli or trials. Recent results in humans and …

The threshold for conscious report: Signal loss and response bias in visual and frontal cortex

B Van Vugt, B Dagnino, D Vartak, H Safaai, S Panzeri… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Why are some visual stimuli consciously detected, whereas others remain subliminal? We
investigated the fate of weak visual stimuli in the visual and frontal cortex of awake monkeys …

Waking state: rapid variations modulate neural and behavioral responses

MJ McGinley, M Vinck, J Reimer, R Batista-Brito… - Neuron, 2015 - cell.com
The state of the brain and body constantly varies on rapid and slow timescales. These
variations contribute to the apparent noisiness of sensory responses at both the neural and …