Top-down modulation of sensory processing allows the animal to select inputs most relevant
to current tasks. We found that the cingulate (Cg) region of the mouse frontal cortex …

Correlated trial-to-trial variability in the activity of cortical neurons is thought to reflect the
functional connectivity of the circuit. Many cortical areas are organized into functional …

Cortical neurons form specific circuits, but the functional structure of this microarchitecture
and its relation to behaviour are poorly understood. Two-photon calcium imaging can …

Learning alters receptive field (RF) tuning in the primary auditory cortex (ACx) to emphasize
the frequency of a tonal conditioned stimulus. RF plasticity is a candidate substrate of …

Learning is primarily mediated by activity-dependent modifications of synaptic strength
within neuronal circuits. We discovered that place fields in hippocampal area CA1 are …

Persistent synaptic modifications are essential for experience-dependent refinement of
developing circuits. However, in the developing Xenopus retinotectal system, activity …

Language-relevant processing of auditory signals is lateralized and involves the posterior
part of Brodmann area 22. We found that the functional lateralization in this area was …

The principles that the auditory cortex uses to decipher a stream of acoustic information
have remained elusive. Neural responses in the animal auditory cortex can be broadly …

Does brain asymmetry for speech and music emerge from acoustical cues or from domain-
specific neural networks? We selectively filtered temporal or spectral modulations in sung …

The circuitry and function of mammalian visual cortex are shaped by patterns of visual
stimuli, a plasticity likely mediated by synaptic modifications. In the adult cat, asynchronous …