Novel nose poke-based temporal discrimination tasks with concurrent in vivo calcium imaging in freely moving mice
The hippocampus has been known to process temporal information as part of memory formation. While time cells have been observed in the hippocampus and medial entorhinal…
Marks WD et al. | Molecular Brain | November 6, 2019
Adaptive disinhibitory gating by VIP interneurons permits associative learning
Learning drives behavioral adaptations necessary for survival. While plasticity of excitatory projection neurons during associative learning has been extensively studied…
Krabbe S et al. | Nature Neuroscience | October 21, 2019
Revealing neural correlates of behavior without behavioral measurements
Measuring neuronal tuning curves has been instrumental for many discoveries in neuroscience but requires a priori assumptions regarding the identity of the encoded…
Rubin A et al. | Nature Communications | October 18, 2019
Cortical ensemble activity discriminates auditory attentional states
Selective attention modulates sensory cortical activity. It remains unclear how auditory cortical activity represents stimuli that differ behaviorally. We designed a…
Yao P et al. | Molecular Brain | October 17, 2019
Mutant neuropeptide S receptor reduces sleep duration with preserved memory consolidation
Sleep is a crucial physiological process for our survival and cognitive performance, yet the factors controlling human sleep regulation remain poorly understood. Here,…
Xing L et al. | Science Translational Medicine | October 16, 2019
Control of Non-REM Sleep by Midbrain Neurotensinergic Neurons
The periaqueductal gray (PAG) in the midbrain is known to coordinate behavioral and autonomic responses to threat and injury through its descending projections to the…
Zhong P et al. | Neuron | September 30, 2019