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

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

Skill-specific changes in cortical preparatory activity during motor learning

Xulu Sun, Daniel J. O’Shea, Matthew D. Golub, Eric M. Trautmann, Saurabh Vyas, Stephen I. Ryu, and Krishna V. Shenoy

bioRxiv posted 31 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.30.919894

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A Disinhibitory Circuit for Contextual Modulation in Primary Visual Cortex

Andreas J Keller, Morgane M Roth, Matthew Caudill, Mario Dipoppa, Kenneth D Miller, and Massimo Scanziani

bioRxiv posted 31 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.31.929166

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Online analysis of microendoscopic 1-photon calcium imaging data streams

Johannes Friedrich, Andrea Giovannucci, and Eftychios A Pnevmatikakis

bioRxiv posted 31 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.31.929141

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Encoding Innately Recognized Odors via a Generalized Population Code

Qiang Qiu, Yunming Wu, Limei Ma, and C. Ron Yu

bioRxiv posted 30 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.28.923748

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Hierarchical Network Model Excitatory-Inhibitory Tone Shapes Alternative Strategies for Different Degrees of Uncertainty in Multi-Attribute Decisions

Warren Woodrich Pettine, Kenway Louie, John D Murray, and Xiao-Jing Wang

bioRxiv posted 29 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.28.923649

[Abstract] [PDF]

 

MazeMaster: an open-source Python-based software package for controlling virtual reality experiments

Alexander Bexter and Bjoern M Kampa

bioRxiv posted 28 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.27.921148

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Assessing Goodness-of-Fit in Marked-Point Process Models of Neural Population Coding via Time and Rate Rescaling

Yalda Amidi, Ali Yousefi, Behzad Nazari, and Uri Eden

bioRxiv posted 24 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.24.919050

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A Connectome of the Adult Drosophila Central Brain

Shan Xu, Michal Januszewski, Zhiyuan Lu, Shin-ya Takemura, Kenneth Hayworth, Gary Huang, Kazunori Shinomiya, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard, David Ackerman, Stuart Berg, Tim Blakely, John Bogovic, Jody Clements, Tom Dolafi, Philip Hubbard, Dagmar Kainmueller, William Katz, Takashi Kawase, Khaled Khairy, Laramie Leavitt, Peter H. Li, Larry Lindsey, Nicole Neubarth, Donald J. Olbris, Hideo Otsuna, Eric T. Troutman, Lowell Umayam, Ting Zhao, Masayoshi Ito, Jens Goldammer, Tanya Wolff, Robert Svirskas, Philipp Schlegel, Erika R. Neace, Christopher J. Knecht, Jr., Chelsea X. Alvarado, Dennis Bailey, Samantha Ballinger, Jolanta A. Borycz, Brandon Canino, Natasha Cheatham, Michael Cook, Marisa Dreyer, Octave Duclos, Bryon Eubanks, Kelli Fairbanks, Samantha Finley, Nora Forknall, Audrey Francis, Gary Patrick Hopkins, Emily M. Joyce, SungJin Kim, Nicole A. Kirk, Julie Kovalyak, Shirley A. Lauchie, Alanna Lohff, Charli Maldo nado, Emily A. Manley, Sari McLin, Caroline Mooney, Miatta Ndama, Omotara Ogundeyi, Nneoma Okeoma, Christopher Ordish, Nicholas Padilla, Christopher Patrick, Tyler Paterson, Elliott E. Phillips, Emily M. Phillips, Neha Rampally, Caitlin Ribeiro, Madelaine K. Robertson, Jon Thomson Rymer, Sean M. Ryan, Megan Sammons, Anne K. Scott, Ashley L. Scott, Aya Shinomiya, Claire Smith, Kelsey Smith, Natalie L. Smith, Margaret A. Sobeski, Alia Suleiman, Jackie Swift, Satoko Takemura, Iris Talebi, Dorota Tarnogorska, Emily Tenshaw, Temour Tokhi, John J. Walsh, Tansy Yang, Jane Anne Horne, Feng Li, Ruchi Parekh, Patricia K. Rivlin, Vivek Jayaraman, Kei Ito, Stephan Saalfeld, Reed George, Ian Meinertzhagen, Gerald M. Rubin, Harald F. Hess, Louis K. Scheffer, Viren Jain, and Stephen M. Plaza

bioRxiv posted 21 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.21.911859

[Abstract] [PDF]

 

A standardized and reproducible method to measure decision-making in mice

The International Brain Laboratory, Valeria Aguillon, Dora Angelaki, Hannah M. Bayer, Niccolo Bonacchi, Matteo Carandini, Fanny Cazettes, Anne K. Churchland, Gaelle Chapuis, Yang Dan, Eric Dewitt, Mayo Faulkner, Forrest Hamish, Laura Haetzel, Michael Hausser, Sonja Hofer, Fei Hu, Anup Khanal, Christopher Krasniak, Inês Laranjeira, Zachary Mainen, Guido Meijer, Nathaniel Miska, Thomas Mrsic-Flogel, Jean-Paul Noel, Alejandro Pan Vazquez, Josh Sanders, Karolina Socha, Rebecca Terry, Anne Urai, Hernando Martinez Vergara, Miles Wells, Christian Wilson, Ilana Witten, Lauren Wool, and Anthony Zador

bioRxiv posted 19 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.17.909838

[Abstract] [PDF]

 

Achieving stable dynamics in neural circuits

Leo Kozachkov, Mikael Lundqvist, Jean-Jacques Slotine, and Earl K. Miller

bioRxiv posted 17 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.17.910174

[Abstract] [PDF]

 

Distinct signals in medial and lateral VTA dopamine neurons modulate fear extinction at different times

Lili Cai, Katherine Pizano, Gregory Gundersen, Cameron Hayes, Weston Fleming, and Ilana B Witten

bioRxiv posted 15 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.14.906024

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SpikeForest: reproducible web-facing ground-truth validation of automated neural spike sorters

Jeremy F Magland, James J Jun, Elizabeth Lovero, Alexander J Morley, Cole L Hurwitz, Alessio P Buccino, Samuel Garcia, and Alex H Barnett

bioRxiv posted 14 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.14.900688

[Abstract] [PDF]

 

Unsupervised changes in core object recognition behavioral performance are accurately predicted by unsupervised neural plasticity in inferior temporal cortex

Xiaoxuan Jia, Ha Hong, and James J. DiCarlo

bioRxiv posted 14 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.13.900837

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Unifying and generalizing models of neural dynamics during decision-making

David M. Zoltowski, Jonathan W. Pillow, Scott W. Linderman

arXiv posted 13 January 2020

[Abstract]

 

Scaling of information in large neural populations reveals signatures of information-limiting correlations

MohammadMehdi Kafashan, Anna Jaffe, Selmaan N Chettih, Ramon Nogueira, Iñigo Arandia-Romero, Christopher D. Harvey, Rubén Moreno-Bote, and Jan Drugowitsch

bioRxiv posted 11 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.10.902171

[Abstract] [PDF]

 

‘Differences in memory for what, where, and when components of recently-formed episodes

John J Sakon and Roozbeh Kiani

bioRxiv posted 10 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.09.901033

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A latent variable approach to decoding neural population activity

Matthew R Whiteway, Bruno Averbeck, and Daniel A Butts

bioRxiv posted 7 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.06.896423

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Low-Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Dynamics Underlie Cortex Wide Neural Activity

Camden J MacDowell and Timothy J Buschman

bioRxiv posted 6 January 2020 doi:10.1101/2020.01.05.895177

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