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.

Reward signaling in a recurrent circuit of dopaminergic neurons and Kenyon cells

Radostina Lyutova, Maximilian Pfeuffer, Dennis Segebarth, Jens Habenstein, Mareike Selcho, Christian Wegener, Andreas S Thum, and Dennis Pauls

bioRxiv posted 28 June 2018

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Evidence that recurrent circuits are critical to the ventral stream’s execution of core object recognition behavior

Kohitij Kar, Jonas Kubilius, Kailyn M Schmidt, Elias B Issa, and James J DiCarlo

bioRxiv posted 26 June 2018

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Inhibitory and excitatory populations in parietal cortex are equally selective for decision outcome in both novices and experts

Farzaneh Najafi, Gamaleldin F Elsayed, , John Cunningham, and Anne K Churchland

bioRxiv posted 22 June 2018

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A Moment-Based Maximum Entropy Model for Fitting Higher-Order Interactions in Neural Data

Alex Cayco-Gajic, Joel Zylberberg, and Eric Shea-Brown

bioRxiv posted 22 June 2018

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Coherent chaos in a recurrent neural network with structured connectivity

Itamar Daniel Landau and Haim Sompolinsky

bioRxiv posted 19 June 2018

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Cortical state fluctuations during sensory decision making

Elina A K Jacobs, Nicholas A Steinmetz, Matteo Carandini, and Kenneth D Harris

bioRxiv posted 16 June 2018

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Principles Underlying the Input-Dependent Formation and Organization of Memories

Juliane Herpich and Christian Tetzlaff

bioRxiv posted 15 June 2018

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Semi-Analytic Nonparametric Bayesian Inference for Spike-Spike Neuronal Connectivity

Luca Ambrogioni, Patrick Ebel, Max Hinne, Umut Guclu, Marcel van Gerven, and Eric Maris

bioRxiv posted 15 June 2018

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Characterization of nonlinear receptive fields of visual neurons by convolutional neural network

Jumpei Ukita, Takashi Yoshida, and Kenichi Ohki

bioRxiv posted 15 June 2018

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Nominally non-responsive frontal and sensory cortical cells encode task-relevant variables via ensemble consensus-building

Michele N Insanally, Ioana Carcea, Rachel E Field, Chris C Rodgers, Brian DePasquale, Kanaka Rajan, Michael R DeWeese, Badr F Albanna, and Robert C Froemke

bioRxiv posted 14 June 2018

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A circuit motif in the songbird basal ganglia for computing predicted performance quality

Ruidong Chen, Pavel A Puzerey, Andrea C Roeser, Tori Riccelli, Archana Podury, Kamal Maher, Alexander Farhang, and Jesse H Goldberg

bioRxiv posted 14 June 2018

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Representational structure or task structure? Bias in neural representational similarity analysis and a Bayesian method for reducing bias

Ming Bo Cai, Nicolas W Schuck, Jonathan W Pillow, and Yael Niv

bioRxiv posted 14 June 2018

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Optimizing sequential decisions in the drift-diffusion model

Khanh P Nguyen, Kresimir Josic, and Zachary Kilpatrick

bioRxiv posted 11 June 2018

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Neuronal thresholds and correlations in the peripheral vestibular system during rotation discrimination

Courtney Garcia, Sheng Liu, Jean Laurens, Gregory DeAngelis, David Dickman, and Dora Angelaki

bioRxiv posted 11 June 2018

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A cerebellar role in evidence-guided decision-making

Ben Deverett, Sue Ann Koay, Marlies Oostland, and Samuel S.-H. Wang

bioRxiv posted 11 June 2018

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Deep learning models reveal internal structure and diverse computations in the retina under natural scenes

Niru Maheswaranathan, Lane T. McIntosh, David B. Kastner, Josh Melander, Luke Brezovec, Aran Nayebi, Julia Wang, Surya Ganguli, and Stephen A. Baccus

bioRxiv posted 8 June 2018

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Open source modules for tracking animal behavior and closed-loop stimulation based on Open Ephys and Bonsai

Alessio Paolo Buccino, Mikkel Elle Lepperod, Svenn-Arne Dragly, Philipp Dominik Hafliger, Marianne Fyhn, and Torkel Hafting

bioRxiv posted 7 June 2018

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Calcium activation of frequency dependent temporally phasic, localized, and dense population of cortical neurons by continuous electrical stimulation

Nicholas J. Michelson, Riazul Islam, Alberto L Vazquez, Kip A. Ludwig, and Takashi Daniel Yoshida Kozai

bioRxiv posted 7 June 2018

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Locus Coeruleus tracking of prediction errors optimises cognitive flexibility: an Active Inference model.

Anna C. Sales, Karl J. Friston, Matthew W. Jones, Anthony E. Pickering, and Rosalyn J. Moran

bioRxiv posted 6 June 2018

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Computational algorithms and neural circuitry for compressed sensing in the mammalian main olfactory bulb

Daniel Kepple, Brittany N. Cazakoff, Heike S. Demmer, Dennis Eckmeier, Stephen D. Shea, and Alexei A. Koulakov

bioRxiv posted 5 June 2018

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Whole-brain imaging and characterization of Drosophila brains based on one-, two-, and three-photon excitations

Shi-Wei Chu, Yen-Yin Lin, Ann-Shyn Chiang, and Kuo-Jen Hsu

bioRxiv posted 5 June 2018

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Detection of task-relevant and task-irrelevant motion sequences: application to motor adaptation in goal-directed and whole-body movements

Daisuke Furuki and Ken Takiyama

bioRxiv posted 5 June 2018

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CaImAn: An open source tool for scalable Calcium Imaging data Analysis

Andrea Giovannucci, Johannes Friedrich, Pat Gunn, Jeremie Kalfon, Sue Ann Koay, Jiannis Taxidis, Farzaneh Najafi, Jeffrey L Gauthier, Pengcheng Zhou, David W Tank, Dmitri B Chklovskii, Eftychios A Pnevmatikakis

bioRxiv posted 5 June 2018

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Penalized matrix decomposition for denoising, compression, and improved demixing of functional imaging data

Kelly Buchanan, Ian Kinsella, Ding Zhou, Rong Zhu, Pengcheng Zhou, Felipe Gerhard, John Ferrante, Ying Ma, Sharon Kim, Mohammed Shaik, Yajie Liang, Rongwen Lu, Jacob Reimer, Paul Fahey, Taliah Muhammad, Graham Dempsey, Elizabeth Hillman, Na Ji, Andreas Tolias, and Liam Paninski

bioRxiv posted 3 June 2018

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Manifold-tiling Localized Receptive Fields are Optimal in Similarity-preserving Neural Networks

Anirvan Sengupta, Mariano Tepper, Cengiz Pehlevan, Alexander Genkin, and Dmitri B Chklovskii

bioRxiv posted 4 June 2018

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Cerebellar contribution to preparatory activity in motor neocortex

Francois pierre Chabrol, Antonin Blot, and Thomas D Mrsic-Flogel

bioRxiv posted 31 May 2018

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Fast Hebbian Plasticity explains Working Memory and Neural Binding

Florian Fiebig, Pawel Herman, and Anders Lansner

bioRxiv posted 30 May 2018

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Disinhibition as a canonical neural mechanism for flexible behavior

Dominic Standage, Martin Pare, and Gunnar Blohm

bioRxiv posted 30 May 2018

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