Mechanisms underlying gain modulation in the cortex

KA Ferguson, JA Cardin - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Cortical gain regulation allows neurons to respond adaptively to changing inputs. Neural
gain is modulated by internal and external influences, including attentional and arousal …

Inhibitory interneurons regulate temporal precision and correlations in cortical circuits

JA Cardin - Trends in neurosciences, 2018 - cell.com
GABAergic interneurons, which are highly diverse, have long been thought to contribute to
the timing of neural activity as well as to the generation and sha** of brain rhythms …

The mechanics of state-dependent neural correlations

B Doiron, A Litwin-Kumar, R Rosenbaum… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Simultaneous recordings from large neural populations are becoming increasingly common.
An important feature of population activity is the trial-to-trial correlated fluctuation of spike …

Neurons as oscillators

KM Stiefel, GB Ermentrout - Journal of neurophysiology, 2016 - journals.physiology.org
Regularly spiking neurons can be described as oscillators. In this article we review some of
the insights gained from this conceptualization and their relevance for systems …

Estimating transfer entropy in continuous time between neural spike trains or other event-based data

DP Shorten, RE Spinney, JT Lizier - PLoS computational biology, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Transfer entropy (TE) is a widely used measure of directed information flows in a number of
domains including neuroscience. Many real-world time series for which we are interested in …

Nonlinear dendritic integration of electrical and chemical synaptic inputs drives fine-scale correlations

S Trenholm, AJ McLaughlin, DJ Schwab… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Throughout the CNS, gap junction–mediated electrical signals synchronize neural activity
on millisecond timescales via cooperative interactions with chemical synapses. However …

Coding of object location by heterogeneous neural populations with spatially dependent correlations in weakly electric fish

M Haggard, MJ Chacron - PLOS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Understanding how neural populations encode sensory stimuli remains a central problem in
neuroscience. Here we performed multi-unit recordings from sensory neural populations in …

Self-organization of microcircuits in networks of spiking neurons with plastic synapses

GK Ocker, A Litwin-Kumar, B Doiron - PLoS computational biology, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The synaptic connectivity of cortical networks features an overrepresentation of certain
wiring motifs compared to simple random-network models. This structure is shaped, in part …

Balanced feedforward inhibition and dominant recurrent inhibition in olfactory cortex

AM Large, NW Vogler, S Mielo… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Throughout the brain, the recruitment of feedforward and recurrent inhibition shapes neural
responses. However, disentangling the relative contributions of these often-overlap** …

VIP interneurons regulate cortical size tuning and visual perception

KA Ferguson, J Salameh, C Alba, H Selwyn, C Barnes… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Cortical circuit function is regulated by extensively interconnected, diverse populations of
GABAergic interneurons that may play key roles in sha** circuit operation according to …