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.

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From preliminary to definitive plans: two classes of neurons in frontal eye field

Joshua I Glaser, Daniel K Wood, Patrick N Lawlor, Mark A Segraves, and Konrad P Kording

bioRxiv posted 22 January 2018

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Linear-Nonlinear-Time-Warp-Poisson models of neural activity

Patrick N Lawlor, Matthew G Perich, Lee E Miller, and Konrad P Kording

bioRxiv posted 22 January 2018

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Choice history biases subsequent evidence accumulation

Anne E. Urai, Jan Willem de Gee, and Tobias H. Donner

bioRxiv posted 22 January 2018

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Mathematical modeling of navigational decisions based on intensity versus directionality in Drosophila larval phototaxis

Lucia de Andres-Bragado, Christian Mazza, Walter Senn, and Simon Sprecher

bioRxiv posted 17 January 2018

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Intrinsic dynamics enhance decodability of neurons in a model of avian auditory cortex

Margot Bjoring and C Daniel Meliza

bioRxiv posted 17 January 2018

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Spike sorting with Gaussian mixture models

Bryan C Souza, Vítor Lopes-dos-Santos, João Bacelo, and Adriano BL Tort

bioRxiv posted 17 January 2018

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Parallel holographic illumination enables sub-millisecond two-photon optogenetic activation in mouse visual cortex in vivo

I-Wen Chen, Emiliano Ronzitti, Brian R. Lee, Tanya L. Daigle, Hongkui Zeng, Eirini Papagiakoumou, and Valentina Emiliani

bioRxiv posted 21 January 2018

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Spatial cell firing during virtual navigation of open arenas by head-restrained mice

Guifen Chen, John A King, Yi Lu, Francesca Cacucci, and Neil Burgess

bioRxiv posted 11 January 2018

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Value Representations in Orbitofrontal Cortex Drive Learning, but not Choice

Kevin J Miller, Matthew M Botvinick, and Carlos D Brody

bioRxiv posted 10 January 2018 doi:10.1101/245720

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Causal contribution and dynamical encoding in the striatum during evidence accumulation

Michael M Yartsev, Timothy D Hanks, Alice M Yoon, and Carlos D Brody

bioRxiv posted 10 January 2018

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Open Source Brain: a collaborative resource for visualizing, analyzing, simulating and developing standardized models of neurons and circuits

Padraig Gleeson, Matteo Cantarelli, Boris Marin, Adrian Quintana, Matt Earnshaw, Eugenio Piasini, Justas Birgiolas, Robert C Cannon, N Alex Cayco-Gajic, Sharon Crook, Andrew P Davison, Salvador Dura-Bernal, Andras Ecker, Michael L Hines, Giovanni Idili, Stephen Larson, William W Lytton, Amit Majumdar, Robert A McDougal, Subhashini Sivagnanam, Sergio Solinas, Rokas Stanislovas, Sacha J van Albada, Werner Van Geit, and R Angus Silver

bioRxiv posted 11 January 2018

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Collicular circuits for flexible sensorimotor routing

Chunyu A Duan, Marino Pagan, Alex T Piet, Charles D Kopec, Athena Akrami, Alexander J Riordan, Jeffrey C Erlich, and Carlos D Brody

bioRxiv posted 9 January 2018

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A Diverse Range of Factors Affect the Nature of Neural Representations Underlying Short-Term Memory

Emin Orhan and Wei Ji Ma

bioRxiv posted 8 January 2018

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Neural substrates of navigational decision-making in Drosophila larva anemotaxis

Tihana Jovanic, James W Truman, Marc Gershow, and Marta Zlatic

bioRxiv posted 8 January 2018

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Maximum entropy models reveal the correlation structure in cortical neural activity during wakefulness and sleep

Trang-Anh Nghiem, Bartosz Telenczuk, Olivier Marre, Alain Destexhe, and Ulisse Ferrari

bioRxiv posted 5 January 2018

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Efficient neural decoding of self-location with a deep recurrent network

Ardi Tampuu, Tambet Matiisen, Hauđur Freyja Ólafsdóttir, Caswell Barry, and Raul Vicente

bioRxiv posted 5 January 2018

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A simple model for low variability in neural spike trains

Ulisse Ferrari, Stephane Deny, Olivier Marre, and Thierry Mora

bioRxiv posted 5 January 2018

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Open source toolkit for temporally controlled rodent behavior suitable for electrophysiology and optogenetic manipulations

Nicola Solari, Katalin Sviatko, Tamas Laszlovszky, Panna Hegedus, and Balazs Hangya

bioRxiv posted 5 January 2018

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A polymer probe-based system for high density, long-lasting electrophysiological recordings across distributed neuronal circuits

Jason E Chung, Hannah R Joo, Jiang Lan Fan, Daniel F Liu, Alex H Barnett, Supin Chen, Charlotte Geaghan-Breiner, Mattias P Karlsson, Magnus Karlsson, Kye Y Lee, Hexin Liang, Jeremy F Magland, W Hamish Mehaffey, Angela C Tooker, Michael S Brainard, Leslie F Greengard, Vanessa M Tolosa, and Loren M Frank

bioRxiv posted 4 January 2018

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Uncovering temporal structure in hippocampal output patterns

Koroush Maboudi, Etienne Ackermann, Brad E Pfeiffer, David J Foster, Kamran Diba, and Caleb Kemere

bioRxiv posted 4 January 2018

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Learning optimal decisions with confidence

Jan Drugowitsch and Alexandre Pouget

bioRxiv posted 7 January 2018

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Emergence of V1 connectivity pattern and Hebbian rule in a performance-optimized artificial neural network

Fangzhou Liao, Xiaolin Hu, and Sen Song

bioRxiv posted 7 January 2018

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Large-scale, high-resolution comparison of the core visual object recognition behavior of humans, monkeys, and state-of-the-art deep artificial neural networks

Rishi Rajalingham, Elias B. Issa, Pouya Bashivan, Kohitij Kar, Kailyn Schmidt, and James J DiCarlo

bioRxiv posted 1 January 2018

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Circuit and cellular mechanisms facilitate the transformation from dense to sparse coding in the insect olfactory system

Rinaldo L Betkiewicz, Martin Paul Nawrot, and Benjamin Lindner

bioRxiv posted 29 December 2017

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Satiation State-dependent Dopaminergic Control of Food Seeking in Drosophila

Dan Landayan, David S Feldman, and Fred W Wolf

bioRxiv posted 29 December 2017

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Task Engagement Enhances Population Encoding of Stimulus Meaning in Primary Auditory Cortex

Sophie Bagur, Martin Averseng, Diego Elgueda, Stephen David, Jonathan Fritz, Pingbo Yin, Shihab Shamma, Yves Boubenec, and Srdjan Ostojic

bioRxiv posted 28 December 2017

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Rethinking dopamine prediction errors

Samuel Joseph Gershman and Geoffrey Schoenbaum

bioRxiv posted 25 December 2017

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Emergence of reward expectation signals in identified dopamine neurons

Luke T Coddington and Joshua T Dudman

bioRxiv posted 22 December 2017

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NeuroField: Theory and Simulation of Multiscale Neural Field Dynamics

Paula Sanz-Leon, P. A. Robinson, S. A. Knock, P. D. Drysdale, R. G. Abeysuriya, P. K. Fung, C. J. Rennie, and X. Zhao

bioRxiv posted 20 December 2017

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Fully unsupervised online spike sorting based on an artificial spiking neural network

Marie Bernert and Blaise Yvert

bioRxiv posted 20 December 2017

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