Deep-brain optical recording of neural dynamics during behavior

ZC Zhou, A Gordon-Fennell, SC Piantadosi, N Ji… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
In vivo fluorescence recording techniques have produced landmark discoveries in
neuroscience, providing insight into how single cell and circuit-level computations mediate …

The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?

J Zheng, M Meister - Neuron, 2025 - cell.com
This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The
information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory …

Mouse frontal cortex mediates additive multisensory decisions

P Coen, TPH Sit, MJ Wells, M Carandini, KD Harris - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
The brain can combine auditory and visual information to localize objects. However, the
cortical substrates underlying audiovisual integration remain uncertain. Here, we show that …

A latent pool of neurons silenced by sensory-evoked inhibition can be recruited to enhance perception

OM Gauld, AM Packer, LE Russell, HWP Dalgleish… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
To investigate which activity patterns in sensory cortex are relevant for perceptual decision-
making, we combined two-photon calcium imaging and targeted two-photon optogenetics to …

A comprehensive, affordable, open-source hardware-software solution for flexible implementation of complex behaviors in head-fixed mice

A Ozgur, SB Park, AY Flores, M Oijala, G Lur - Eneuro, 2023 - eneuro.org
Experiments that take advantage of head-fixed behavioral tasks have been a staple of
systems neuroscience research for half a century. More recently, rodents came to the …

Visual experience orthogonalizes visual cortical stimulus responses via population code transformation

SW Failor, M Carandini, KD Harris - Cell Reports, 2025 - cell.com
Sensory and behavioral experience can alter visual cortical stimulus coding, but the precise
form of this plasticity is unclear. We measured orientation tuning in 4,000-neuron …

The virtual-environment-foraging task enables rapid training and single-trial metrics of attention in head-fixed mice

MN Havenith, PM Zijderveld, S van Heukelum… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Attention–the flexible allocation of processing resources based on behavioural demands–is
essential to survival. Mouse research offers unique tools to dissect the underlying pathways …

Supporting generalization in non-human primate behavior by tap** into structural knowledge: Examples from sensorimotor map**s, inference, and decision …

JP Noel, B Caziot, S Bruni, NE Fitzgerald, E Avila… - Progress in …, 2021 - Elsevier
The complex behaviors we ultimately wish to understand are far from those currently used in
systems neuroscience laboratories. A salient difference are the closed loops between action …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced perceptual task performance without deprivation in mice using medial forebrain bundle stimulation

A Verdier, N Dominique, D Groussard, A Aldanondo… - Cell Reports …, 2022 - cell.com
Perceptual decision-making tasks are essential to many fields of neuroscience. Current
protocols generally reward deprived animals with water. However, balancing animals' …

Reward modulates visual responses in the superficial superior colliculus of mice

LJ Baruchin, M Alleman, S Schröder - Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - jneurosci.org
The processing of sensory input is constantly adapting to behavioral demands and internal
states. The drive to obtain reward, eg, searching for water when thirsty, is a strong …