Parvalbumin-positive neurons are the largest class of GABAergic, inhibitory neurons in the
central nervous system. In the cortex, these fast-spiking cells provide feedforward and …

Stimulus-selective response plasticity (SRP) is a robust and lasting modification of primary
visual cortex (V1) that occurs in response to exposure to novel visual stimuli. It is readily …

Objective. Microfabricated multielectrode arrays are widely used for high throughput
recording of extracellular neural activity, which is transforming our understanding of brain …

Animals must adapt sensory responses to an ever-changing environment for survival. Such
sensory modulation is especially critical in a threatening situation, in which animals often …

Visual systems have evolved to recognize and extract features from complex scenes using
limited sensory information. Contour perception is essential to this process and can occur …

In recent years, technical and procedural advances have brought functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) to the field of murine neuroscience. Due to its unique capacity to …

Learning to recognize and filter familiar, irrelevant sensory stimuli eases the computational
burden on the cerebral cortex. Inhibition is a candidate mechanism in this filtration process …

Salient visual stimuli enhance theta oscillations and spike-phase locking in the theta band in
the primary visual cortex (V1) of mice; however, the detailed mechanisms remain unknown …

Glutamate, one of the main neurotransmitters in the brain, plays a critical role in
communication between neurons, neuronal development, and various neurological …

Fragile X syndrome (FX), the most common inherited form of autism and intellectual
disability, is a condition associated with visual perceptual learning deficits. We recently …