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Human cortex connectome
Team led by Jeff Lichtman unveils connectome of a slab of human temporal cortex containing all six layers. Links to paper, gallery, and Boston Globe article…
Glutamate inputs send prediction error of reward, but not negative value of aversive stimuli, to dopamine neurons
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Ölveczky lab paper makes the cover of October Nature Neuroscience
Describes circuit mechanisms of complex motor sequences…
Transcriptomic analysis of the ocular posterior segment completes a cell atlas of the human eye
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Neural mechanisms of parasite-induced summiting behavior in ‘zombie’ Drosophila
Elya C, Lavrentovich D, Lee E, Pasadyn C, Duval J, Basak M, Saykina V, de Bivort BL. Elife. 2023 May 15;12:e85410. doi: 10.7554/eLife.85410. Online ahead of print. PMID: 37184212…
Structural basis of sensory receptor evolution in octopus
Allard CAH, Kang G, Kim JJ, Valencia-Montoya WA, Hibbs RE, Bellono NW
Nature. 2023. Apr;616(7956):373-377. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05822-1. Epub 2023 Apr 12. PMID: 37045920…
Sensory specializations drive octopus and squid behaviour
Kang G, Allard CAH, Valencia-Montoya WA, van Giesen L, Kim JJ, Kilian PB, Bai X, Bellono NW, Hibbs RE
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Ba, Konkle, Pehlevan, and Sompolinsky named inaugural Kempner Institute Associate Faculty
Demba Ba, Talia Konkle, Cengiz Pehlevan, and Haim Sompolinsky were named the Institute’s inaugural cohort of “associate faculty.”…
Yun Zhang story in Harvard Gazette
You can read “Pathogenic bacteria modulate pheromone response to promote mating” by following the link to the paper…
Encoding of environmental illumination by primate melanopsin neurons
Liu A, Milner ES, Peng YR, Blume HA, Brown MC, Bryman GS, Emanuel AJ, Morquette P, Viet NM, Sanes JR, Gamlin PD, Do MTH
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Coordinated drift of receptive fields in Hebbian/anti-Hebbian network models during noisy representation learning
Qin S, Farashahi S, Lipshutz D, Sengupta AM, Chklovskii DB, Pehlevan C
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Rapid synaptic and gamma rhythm signature of mouse critical period plasticity
Quast KB, Reh RK, Caiati MD, Kopell N, McCarthy MM, Hensch TK
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Pathogenic bacteria modulate pheromone response to promote mating
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Population codes enable learning from few examples by shaping inductive bias
Bordelon B, Pehlevan C
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Proper acquisition of cell class identity in organoids allows definition of fate specification programs of the human cerebral cortex
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A preoptic neuronal population controls fever and appetite during sickness
Osterhout JA, Kapoor V, Eichhorn SW, Vaughn E, Moore JD, Liu D, Lee D, DeNardo LA, Luo L, Zhuang X, Dulac C.
Nature. 2022 Jun;606(7916):937-944….
A self-supervised domain-general learning framework for human ventral stream representation
Talia Konkle and G. Alvarez…