Catalyzing next-generation artificial intelligence through neuroai

A Zador, S Escola, B Richards, B Ölveczky… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Neuroscience has long been an essential driver of progress in artificial intelligence (AI). We
propose that to accelerate progress in AI, we must invest in fundamental research in …

Keypoint-MoSeq: parsing behavior by linking point tracking to pose dynamics

C Weinreb, JE Pearl, S Lin, MAM Osman, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Keypoint tracking algorithms can flexibly quantify animal movement from videos obtained in
a wide variety of settings. However, it remains unclear how to parse continuous keypoint …

A virtual rodent predicts the structure of neural activity across behaviours

D Aldarondo, J Merel, JD Marshall, L Hasenclever… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Animals have exquisite control of their bodies, allowing them to perform a diverse range of
behaviours. How such control is implemented by the brain, however, remains unclear …

Geometric deep learning enables 3D kinematic profiling across species and environments

TW Dunn, JD Marshall, KS Severson, DE Aldarondo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Comprehensive descriptions of animal behavior require precise three-dimensional (3D)
measurements of whole-body movements. Although two-dimensional approaches can track …

Leaving flatland: Advances in 3D behavioral measurement

JD Marshall, T Li, JH Wu, TW Dunn - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Animals move in three dimensions (3D). Thus, 3D measurement is necessary to report the
true kinematics of animal movement. Existing 3D measurement techniques draw on …

Facemap: a framework for modeling neural activity based on orofacial tracking

A Syeda, L Zhong, R Tung, W Long, M Pachitariu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent studies in mice have shown that orofacial behaviors drive a large fraction of neural
activity across the brain. To understand the nature and function of these signals, we need …

[HTML][HTML] Anipose: A toolkit for robust markerless 3D pose estimation

P Karashchuk, KL Rupp, ES Dickinson, S Walling-Bell… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
Quantifying movement is critical for understanding animal behavior. Advances in computer
vision now enable markerless tracking from 2D video, but most animals move in 3D. Here …

Toward next-generation artificial intelligence: Catalyzing the neuroai revolution

A Zador, S Escola, B Richards, B Ölveczky… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Neuroscience has long been an essential driver of progress in artificial intelligence (AI). We
propose that to accelerate progress in AI, we must invest in fundamental research in …

Hierarchical action encoding in prefrontal cortex of freely moving macaques

B Voloh, DJN Maisson, RL Cervera, I Conover… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Our natural behavioral repertoires include coordinated actions of characteristic types. To
better understand how neural activity relates to the expression of actions and action …

Behavioral decomposition reveals rich encoding structure employed across neocortex in rats

B Mimica, T Tombaz, C Battistin, JG Fuglstad… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The cortical population code is pervaded by activity patterns evoked by movement, but it
remains largely unknown how such signals relate to natural behavior or how they might …