A unifying perspective on neural manifolds and circuits for cognition

C Langdon, M Genkin, TA Engel - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Two different perspectives have informed efforts to explain the link between the brain and
behaviour. One approach seeks to identify neural circuit elements that carry out specific …

The digital twin brain: A bridge between biological and artificial intelligence

H Xiong, C Chu, L Fan, M Song, J Zhang, Y Ma… - Intelligent …, 2023 - spj.science.org
In recent years, advances in neuroscience and artificial intelligence have paved the way for
unprecedented opportunities to understand the complexity of the brain and its emulation …

Coupling of pupil-and neuronal population dynamics reveals diverse influences of arousal on cortical processing

T Pfeffer, C Keitel, DS Kluger, A Keitel, A Russmann… - elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Fluctuations in arousal, controlled by subcortical neuromodulatory systems, continuously
shape cortical state, with profound consequences for information processing. Yet, how …

[HTML][HTML] Choice selective inhibition drives stability and competition in decision circuits

JP Roach, AK Churchland, TA Engel - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
During perceptual decision-making, the firing rates of cortical neurons reflect upcoming
choices. Recent work showed that excitatory and inhibitory neurons are equally selective for …

Circuit mechanisms for the chemical modulation of cortex-wide network interactions and behavioral variability

T Pfeffer, A Ponce-Alvarez, K Tsetsos… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Influential theories postulate distinct roles of catecholamines and acetylcholine in cognition
and behavior. However, previous physiological work reported similar effects of these …

[HTML][HTML] Distinct hierarchical alterations of intrinsic neural timescales account for different manifestations of psychosis

K Wengler, AT Goldberg, G Chahine, G Horga - elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Hierarchical perceptual-inference models of psychosis may provide a holistic framework for
understanding psychosis in schizophrenia including heterogeneity in clinical presentations …

Attractor-like dynamics in belief updating in schizophrenia

RA Adams, G Napier, JP Roiser, C Mathys… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Subjects with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (Scz) overweight unexpected evidence in
probabilistic inference: such evidence becomes “aberrantly salient.” A neurobiological …

[HTML][HTML] Proactive and reactive accumulation-to-bound processes compete during perceptual decisions

L Hernández-Navarro, A Hermoso-Mendizabal… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Standard models of perceptual decision-making postulate that a response is triggered in
reaction to stimulus presentation when the accumulated stimulus evidence reaches a …

[HTML][HTML] The thalamus in psychosis spectrum disorder

A Anticevic, MM Halassa - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Psychosis spectrum disorder (PSD) affects 1% of the world population and results in a
lifetime of chronic disability, causing devastating personal and economic consequences …

[HTML][HTML] Catecholamines alter the intrinsic variability of cortical population activity and perception

T Pfeffer, AE Avramiea, G Nolte, AK Engel… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The ascending modulatory systems of the brain stem are powerful regulators of global brain
state. Disturbances of these systems are implicated in several major neuropsychiatric …