The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Aug 8, 2018
Persistent spiking has been thought to underlie working memory (WM). However, virtually all of the evidence for this comes from studies that averaged spiking across time and across trials, which masks the details. On single trials, activity often occ...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Aug 10, 2016
UNLABELLED: Robot therapy promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI) in animal and clinical studies. Trunk actions are important in adult rats spinalized as neonates (NTX rats) that walk autonomously. Quadrupedal robot rehabilitation...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Apr 13, 2016
UNLABELLED: Sleep is critical for regulation of synaptic efficacy, memories, and learning. However, the underlying mechanisms of how sleep rhythms contribute to consolidating memories acquired during wakefulness remain unclear. Here we studied the ro...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Mar 30, 2016
UNLABELLED: Developing neuronal networks display spontaneous bursts of action potentials that are necessary for circuit organization and tuning. While spontaneous activity has been shown to instruct map formation in sensory circuits, it is unknown wh...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Feb 3, 2016
UNLABELLED: Behavioral and neuroscientific data on reward-based decision making point to a fundamental distinction between habitual and goal-directed action selection. The formation of habits, which requires simple updating of cached values, has been...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Jan 13, 2016
UNLABELLED: How multiple sensory cues are integrated in neural circuitry remains a challenge. The common hypothesis is that information integration might be accomplished in a dedicated multisensory integration area receiving feedforward inputs from t...
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience
Nov 25, 2015
UNLABELLED: Artificial activation of neural circuitry through electrical microstimulation and optogenetic techniques is important for both scientific discovery of circuit function and for engineered approaches to alleviate various disorders of the ne...