From the bioRxiv: A Selection of Recently Posted Papers from SCGB Investigators and Others

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

A state eepresentation for reinforcement learning and decision-making in the orbitofrontal cortex

Nicolas W. Schuck, Robert C. Wilson, and Yael Niv

bioRxiv posted 29 October 2017

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Majority of choice-related variability in perceptual decisions is present in early sensory cortex

Charles Michelson, Jonathan Pillow, and Eyal Seidemann

bioRxiv posted 22 October 2017

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Specific hippocampal representations are linked to generalized cortical representations in memory.

Jai Y. Yu, Daniel F. Liu, Adrianna Loback, Irene Grossrubatscher, and Loren M. Frank

bioRxiv posted 21 October 2017

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Context-invariant encoding of reward location in a distinct hippocampal population

Jeffrey L. Gauthier and David W. Tank

bioRxiv posted 20 October 2017

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Learning-induced sequence reactivation during sharp-wave ripples: a computational study

Paola Malerba, Katya Tsimring, and Maxim Bazhenov

bioRxiv posted 23 October 2017

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Simulation of visual perception and learning with a retinal prosthesis

James R. Golden, Cordelia Erickson-Davis, Nicolas P. Cottaris, Nikhil Parthasarathy, Fred Rieke, David H. Brainard, Brian A. Wandell, and E. J. Chichilnisky

bioRxiv posted 20 October 2017

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Use of a Neural Circuit Probe to Validate in silico Predictions of Inhibitory Connections

Honglei Liu, Daniel Bridges, Connor Randall, Sara A. Solla, Bian Wu, Paul Hansma, Xifeng Yan, Kenneth S. Kosik, and Kristofer Bouchard

bioRxiv posted 19 October 2017

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The representation of colored objects in macaque color patches

Le Chang, Pinglei Bao, and Doris Tsao

bioRxiv posted 19 October 2017

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Speed tuning in the macaque posterior parietal cortex

Eric Avila, Kaushik J Lakshminarasimhan, Gregory C DeAngelis, and Dora E Angelaki

bioRxiv posted 18 October 2017

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Estimation of neuronal firing rate using Bayesian Adaptive Kernel Smoother (BAKS)

Nur Ahmadi, Timothy G. Constandinou, and Christos-Savvas Bouganis

bioRxiv posted 17 October 2017

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Rats optimally accumulate and discount evidence in a dynamic environment

Alex Piet, Ahmed El Hady, and Carlos D. Brody

bioRxiv posted 17 October 2017

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Propagation of spike timing and firing rate in feedforward networks reconstituted in vitro

Jeremie Barral, Xiao-Jing Wang, and Alex D Reyes

bioRxiv posted 16 October 2017

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Discrete attractor dynamics underlying selective persistent activity in frontal cortex

Hidehiko Inagaki, Lorenzo Fontolan, Sandro Romani, and Karel Svoboda

bioRxiv posted 15 October 2017

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Decisions are expedited through multiple neural adjustments spanning the sensorimotor hierarchy

Natalie A Steinemann, Redmond G O’Connell, and Simon P Kelly

bioRxiv posted 14 October 2017

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Unsupervised detection of cell-assembly sequences with edit similarity score

Keita Watanabe, Tatsuya Haga, David R. Euston, Masami Tatsuno, and Tomoki Fukai

bioRxiv posted 13 October 2017

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Experience-dependent modulation of behavioral features in sensory navigation of nematodes and bats revealed by machine learning

Shuhei J. Yamazaki, Yosuke Ikejiri, Fumie Hiramatsu, Kosuke Fujita, Yuki Tanimoto, Akiko Yamazoe-Umemoto, Yasufumi Yamada, Koichi Hashimoto, Shizuko Hiryu, Takuya Maekawa, and Koutarou D. Kimura

bioRxiv posted 12 October 2017

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Imbalanced amplification: A mechanism of amplification and suppression from local imbalance of excitation and inhibition in cortical circuits

Christopher Ebsch and Robert Rosenbaum

bioRxiv posted 11 October 2017

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Long-range inputs and H-current regulate different modes of operation in a multiscale model of mouse M1 microcircuits

Salvador Dura-Bernal, Samuel A Neymotin, Benjamin A Suter, Gordon MG Shepherd, and William W Lytton

bioRxiv posted 11 October 2017

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Neural code uses self-information principle to organize the brain’s universal cell-assembly coding

Meng Li, Kun Xie, Hui Kuang, Jun Liu, Deheng Wang, Grace E Fox, Zhifeng Shi, Liang Chen, Fang Zhao, Ying Mao, and Joe Tsien

bioRxiv posted 11 October 2017

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Deep convolutional models improve predictions of macaque V1 responses to natural images

Santiago A Cadena, George H Denfield, Edgar Y Walker, Leon A Gatys, Andreas S Tolias, Matthias Bethge, and Alexander S Ecker

bioRxiv posted 11 October 2017

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Population-scale organization of cerebellar granule neuron signaling during a visuomotor behavior

Sherika J.G. Sylvester, Melanie M. Lee, Alexandro Ramirez, Sukbin Lim, Mark S. Goldman, and Emre R.F. Aksay

bioRxiv posted 10 October 2017

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Attractor dynamics in networks with learning rules inferred from in vivo data

Ulises Pereira and Nicolas Brunel

bioRxiv posted 6 October 2017

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Encoding of Tactile Context in the Mouse Visual Cortex

Steffen Kandler, Dun Mao, Bruce L. McNaughton, and Vincent Bonin

bioRxiv posted 6 October 2017

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Exploiting modal demultiplexing properties of tapered optical fibers for tailored optogenetic stimulation

Marco Pisanello, Filippo Pisano, Leonardo Sileo, Emanuela Maglie, Elisa Bellistri, Barbara Spagnolo, Gil Mandelbaum, Bernardo L. Sabatini, Massimo De Vittorio, and Ferruccio Pisanello

bioRxiv posted 6 October 2017

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Expectation-induced modulation of metastable activity underlies faster coding of sensory stimuli

Luca Mazzucato, Giancarlo La Camera, and Alfredo Fontanini

bioRxiv posted 6 October 2017

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Grid cell co-activity patterns during sleep reflect spatial overlap of grid fields during active behaviors

Sean G. Trettel, John B. Trimper, Ernie Hwaun, Ila R. Fiete, and Laura L. Colgin

bioRxiv posted 5 October 2017

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Correlation structure of grid cells is preserved during sleep

Richard J. Gardner, Li Lu, Tanja Wernle, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser

bioRxiv posted 5 October 2017

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A subcortical circuit linking the cerebellum to the basal ganglia engaged in vocal learning

Ludivine Pidoux, Pascale Leblanc, and Arthur Leblois

bioRxiv posted 4 October 2017

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Predictive Coding of Novel versus Familiar Stimuli in the Primary Visual Cortex

Jan Homann, Sue Ann Koay, Alistair M. Glidden, David W. Tank, and Michael J. Berry

bioRxiv posted 3 October 2017

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Single-exposure visual memory judgments are reflected in IT cortex

Travis Meyer and Nicole C Rust

bioRxiv posted 3 October 2017

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OnACID: Online Analysis of Calcium Imaging Data in Real Time

Andrea Giovannucci, Johannes Friedrich, Matthew Kaufman, Anne K. Churchland, Dmitri Chklovskii, Liam Paninski, and Eftychios A. Pnevmatikakis

bioRxiv posted 2 October 2017

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Neural data science: accelerating the experiment-analysis-theory cycle in large-scale neuroscience

Liam Paninski and John Cunningham

bioRxiv posted 2 October 2017

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Assessing Selectivity in the Basal Ganglia: The “Gearbox” Hypothesis

Zafeirios Fountas and Murray Shanahan

bioRxiv posted 2 October 2017

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Multiphoton minimal inertia scanning for fast acquisition of neural activity signals

Renaud Schuck, Mary Ann Go, Stefania Garasto, Stephanie Reynolds, Pier Luigi Dragotti, and Simon Schultz

bioRxiv posted 30 September 2017

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Comparing average network signals and neural mass signals in systems with low-synchrony

Prejaas Tewarie, Andreas Daffertshofer, and Bob W van Dijk

bioRxiv posted 30 September 2017

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Modeling the Role of Striatum in Stochastic Multi Context Tasks

Sabyasachi Shivkumar, V. Srinivasa Chakravarthy, and Nicolas P. Rougier

bioRxiv posted 30 September 2017

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Visual evidence accumulation behavior in unrestrained mice

Onyekachi Odoemene, Hien Nguyen, and Anne K. Churchland

bioRxiv posted 29 September 2017

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Simultaneous representation of a spectrum of dynamically changing value estimates during decision making

David Meder, Nils Kolling, Lennart Verhagen, Marco Wittmann, Jacqueline Scholl, Kristoffer Hougaard Madsen, Oliver Hulme, Timothy Behrens, and Matthew Rushworth

bioRxiv posted 29 September 2017

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Gradual progression from sensory to task-related processing in cerebral cortex

Scott L. Brincat, Markus Siegel, Constantin von Nicolai, and Earl K. Miller

bioRxiv posted 28 September 2017

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Sub-threshold resonance organizes activity and optimizes learning in neural networks.

James P. Roach, Aleksandra Pidde, Eitan Katz, Jiaxing Wu, Nicolette Ognjanovski, Sara J. Aton, and Michal R. Zochowski

bioRxiv posted 27 September 2017

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