Libet's legacy: A primer to the neuroscience of volition

T Dominik, A Mele, A Schurger, U Maoz - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2024 - Elsevier
The neuroscience of volition is an emerging subfield of the brain sciences, with hundreds of
papers on the role of consciousness in action formation published each year. This makes …

Wide-field calcium imaging of cortical activation and functional connectivity in externally-and internally-driven locomotion

SL West, ML Gerhart, TJ Ebner - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
The role of the cerebral cortex in self-initiated versus sensory-driven movements is central to
understanding volitional action. Whether the differences in these two movement classes are …

Neural correlates of future volitional action in Drosophila

LE Brezovec, AB Berger, S Druckmann, TR Clandinin - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
The ability to act voluntarily is fundamental to animal behavior,,,,. For example, self-directed
movements are critical to exploration, particularly in the absence of external sensory signals …

Inference of Neural Dynamics Using Switching Recurrent Neural Networks

Y Zhang, S Saxena - The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on …, 2024 - openreview.net
Neural population activity often exhibits distinct dynamical features across time, which may
correspond to distinct internal processes or behavior. Linear methods and variations thereof …

[HTML][HTML] Neural Sequences Underlying Directed Turning in C. elegans

TS Kramer, FK Wan, SM Pugliese, AA Atanas… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Complex behaviors like navigation rely on sequenced motor outputs that combine to
generate effective movement. The brain-wide organization of the circuits that integrate …

Slow ramping emerges from spontaneous fluctuations in spiking neural networks

J Gavenas, U Rutishauser, A Schurger… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The capacity to initiate actions endogenously is critical for goal-directed behavior.
Spontaneous voluntary actions are typically preceded by slow-ramping activity in medial …

High-Density Multichannel Fiber Photometry

Y Sych, F Helmchen - Awake Behaving Mesoscopic Brain Imaging, 2024 - Springer
Animal behavior is governed by brain activity distributed and coordinated across multiple
regions. Parallel progress in optical microscopy and the development of genetically …

[HTML][HTML] FABEL: Forecasting Animal Behavioral Events with Deep Learning-Based Computer Vision

A Catto, R O'Connor, KM Braunscheidel, PJ Kenny… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Behavioral neuroscience aims to provide a connection between neural phenomena and
emergent organism-level behaviors. This requires perturbing the nervous system and …

Mesoscale Calcium (Ca2+) Imaging in Freely Behaving Mice

S Kodandaramaiah, ML Rynes, DA Surinach… - Awake Behaving …, 2024 - Springer
Mesoscale imaging of calcium dynamics has emerged as a powerful technique to study the
coordination of activity of multiple cortical regions simultaneously during awake behavior …

Pupil dilations prior to freely timed actions reflect the reported timing of conscious intention

J Gavenas, A Schurger, U Maoz - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Freely timed actions are typically preceded by a slow anticipatory buildup of cortical brain
activity, which has been extensively studied. However, such free actions are also preceded …