Biological intelligence processes information using impulses or spikes, which makes those
living creatures able to perceive and act in the real world exceptionally well and outperform …

The advent of unbiased recording and imaging techniques to evaluate firing activity across
neocortical neurons has revealed substantial heterogeneity in response properties in vivo …

Many theories of brain function propose that activity in sparse subsets of neurons underlies
perception and action. To place a lower bound on the amount of neural activity that can be …

Despite the importance of the discharge frequency in neuronal communication, little is
known about the firing-rate patterns of cortical populations. Using large-scale recordings …

The brain is a highly modular structure. To exploit modularity, it is necessary that spiking
activity can propagate from one module to another while preserving the information it …

Memories for events are thought to be represented in sparse, distributed neuronal
ensembles (or engrams). In this article, we review how neurons are chosen to become part …

Both theoretical and experimental evidence indicate that synaptic excitation and inhibition in
the cerebral cortex are well-balanced during the resting state and sensory processing. Here …

Macroscopic changes in cerebral blood flow, such as those captured by functional imaging
of the brain, require highly organized, large-scale dynamics of astrocytes, glial cells that …

In the dentate gyrus–a key component of spatial memory circuits–granule cells (GCs) are
known to be morphologically diverse and to display heterogeneous activity profiles during …

It is often thought that the construction of cortical circuits occurs as the result of an elegantly
designed process that unfolds sequentially as an animal develops until adult functional …