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Time-order error, a psychophysical phenomenon in which the duration in between successive stimuli alters perception, has been studied for decades by neuroscientists and p [...]
15 October 2024 |
Computational Neuroscience; Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Changes in synaptic strength across timescales are integral to algorithmic operations of neural circuits. However, pinpointing synaptic loci that undergo plasticity in in [...]
20 September 2024 |
Neurobiology |
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During reaching, neurons in motor cortex exhibit complex, time-varying activity patterns. Though single-neuron activity correlates with movement parameters, movement corr [...]
15 August 2024 |
Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Synaptic connectivity defines groups of neurons that engage in correlated activity during specific functional tasks. These co-active groups of neurons form ensembles, the [...]
30 July 2024 |
Neurobiology |
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How do students' experiences relate to civic virtues and how do these experiences have their effect? The current research uses studying abroad – an extracurricular acti [...]
2024-06 |
MA Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) |
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Brain networks are continuously modified throughout development, yet this plasticity can also make functional networks vulnerable to early life stress. Little is currentl [...]
19 March 2024 |
Psychology |
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Dendritic mechanisms driving input-output transformation in starburst amacrine cells (SACs) are not fully understood. Here, we combine two-photon subcellular voltage and [...]
28 February 2024 |
Biophysical Sciences; Computational Neuroscience; Neurobiology |
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Netrins dictate attractive and repulsive responses during axon growth and cell migration, where the presence of the receptor Uncoordinated-5 (UNC-5) on target cells resul [...]
16 February 2024 |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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Lysosomal calcium (Ca 2+) release is critical to cell signaling and is mediated by well-known lysosomal Ca 2+ channels. Yet, how lysosomes refill thei [...]
14 February 2024 |
Chemistry |
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Implicit biases - differential attitudes towards members of distinct groups - are pervasive in human societies and create inequities across many aspects of life. Recent r [...]
06 February 2024 |
Ecology and Evolution; Psychology |
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Task demands can differentially engage two fundamental attention components: selectivity (spatial bias) and effort (total nonselective attentional intensity). The relativ [...]
10 June 2022 |
Neurobiology |
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Dynamin-related protein 1 (Drp1) is a cytosolic GTPase protein that when activated translocates to the mitochondria, meditating mitochondrial fission and increasing react [...]
22 December 2023 |
Medicine |
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When multiple stimuli appear together in the receptive field of a visual cortical neuron, the response is typically close to the average of that neuron’s response to ea [...]
18 December 2023 |
Computational Neuroscience; Neurobiology |
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Prestin responds to transmembrane voltage fluctuations by changing its cross-sectional area, a process underlying the electromotility of outer hair cells and cochlear amp [...]
06 December 2023 |
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
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To become and remain functional, individual neuron types must select during development and maintain throughout life their distinct terminal identity features, such as ex [...]
03 January 2020 |
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology; Neurobiology; Neurology |
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Terminal selectors are transcription factors (TFs) that establish during development and maintain throughout life post-mitotic neuronal identity. We previously showed tha [...]
01 October 2020 |
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology; Neurobiology |
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Spinal motor neurons (MNs) constitute cellular substrates for several movement disorders. Although their early development has received much attention, how spinal MNs bec [...]
22 March 2022 |
Neurobiology |
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Spatially distributed excitation and inhibition collectively shape a visual neuron’s receptive field (RF) properties. In the direction-selective circuit of the mammalia [...]
07 June 2021 |
Biophysical Sciences; Neurobiology; Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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Low-dimensional linear dynamics are observed in neuronal population activity in primary motor cortex (M1) when monkeys make reaching movements. This population-level beha [...]
17 November 2020 |
Computational Neuroscience; Organismal Biology and Anatomy |
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How circuits self-assemble starting from neuronal stem cells is a fundamental question in developmental neurobiology. Here, we addressed how neurons from different stem c [...]
20 June 2022 |
Computational Neuroscience; Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology; Neurobiology |
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How circuits assemble starting from stem cells is a fundamental question in developmental neurobiology. We test the hypothesis that, in neuronal stem cells, temporal tran [...]
10 September 2019 |
Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology |
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How circuit wiring is specified is a key question in developmental neurobiology. Previously, using the Drosophila motor system as a model, we found the classic temporal t [...]
11 May 2020 |
Development, Regeneration, and Stem Cell Biology; Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology |
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Decisions about the behavioral significance of sensory stimuli often require comparing sensory inference of what we are looking at to internal models of what we are looki [...]
18 April 2017 |
Neurobiology |
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Comparing sequential stimuli is crucial for guiding complex behaviors. To understand mechanisms underlying sequential decisions, we compared neuronal responses in the pre [...]
07 September 2021 |
Neurobiology |
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In the interest of advocating for the postdoctoral community in the United States (US), we compared the results of surveys of postdocs carried out in 2019 and in late 202 [...]
26 July 2022 |
Ben May Department for Cancer Research; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; Human Genetics; Neurobiology; Pediatrics |
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