Recurrent dynamics in the cerebral cortex: Integration of sensory evidence with stored knowledge

W Singer - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Current concepts of sensory processing in the cerebral cortex emphasize serial extraction
and recombination of features in hierarchically structured feed-forward networks in order to …

Systems neuroscience of natural behaviors in rodents

EJ Dennis, A El Hady, A Michaiel… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
Animals evolved in complex environments, producing a wide range of behaviors, including
navigation, foraging, prey capture, and conspecific interactions, which vary over timescales …

[HTML][HTML] Neuropeptides and behaviors: how small peptides regulate nervous system function and behavioral outputs

US Bhat, N Shahi, S Surendran, K Babu - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
One of the reasons that most multicellular animals survive and thrive is because of the
adaptable and plastic nature of their nervous systems. For an organism to survive, it is …

[HTML][HTML] Behavioral control by depolarized and hyperpolarized states of an integrating neuron

A Sordillo, CI Bargmann - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Coordinated transitions between mutually exclusive motor states are central to behavioral
decisions. During locomotion, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans spontaneously cycles …

[HTML][HTML] Corollary discharge promotes a sustained motor state in a neural circuit for navigation

N Ji, V Venkatachalam, HD Rodgers, W Hung… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Animals exhibit behavioral and neural responses that persist on longer timescales than
transient or fluctuating stimulus inputs. Here, we report that Caenorhabditis elegans uses …

[HTML][HTML] Sex-specific, pdfr-1-dependent modulation of pheromone avoidance by food abundance enables flexibility in C. elegans foraging behavior

J Luo, DS Portman - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
To make adaptive feeding and foraging decisions, animals must integrate diverse sensory
streams with multiple dimensions of internal state. In C. elegans, foraging and dispersal …

Presynaptic Gαo (GOA-1) signals to depress command neuron excitability and allow stretch-dependent modulation of egg laying in Caenorhabditis elegans

B Ravi, J Zhao, SI Chaudhry, R Signorelli, M Bartole… - Genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Egg laying in the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans is a two-state behavior
modulated by internal and external sensory input. We have previously shown that …

[HTML][HTML] Opponent vesicular transporters regulate the strength of glutamatergic neurotransmission in a C. elegans sensory circuit

JH Choi, LB Horowitz, N Ringstad - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
At chemical synapses, neurotransmitters are packaged into synaptic vesicles that release
their contents in response to depolarization. Despite its central role in synaptic function …

Optimal escape-and-feeding dynamics of random walkers: Rethinking the convenience of ballistic strategies

D Campos, J Cristín, V Méndez - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Excited random walks represent a convenient model to study food intake in a media which is
progressively depleted by the walker. Trajectories in the model alternate between (i) feeding …

[HTML][HTML] INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Recurrent dynamics in the cerebral cortex: Integration of sensory evidence with stored …

W Singer - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Current concepts of sensory processing in the cerebral cortex emphasize serial extraction
and recombination of features in hierarchically structured feed-forward networks in order to …