Functional specificity of recurrent inhibition in visual cortex

P Znamenskiy, MH Kim, DR Muir, MF Iacaruso… - Neuron, 2024 - cell.com
In the neocortex, neural activity is shaped by the interaction of excitatory and inhibitory
neurons, defined by the organization of their synaptic connections. Although connections …

Coordinated drift of receptive fields in Hebbian/anti-Hebbian network models during noisy representation learning

S Qin, S Farashahi, D Lipshutz, AM Sengupta… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent experiments have revealed that neural population codes in many brain areas
continuously change even when animals have fully learned and stably perform their tasks …

Multilevel visual motion opponency in Drosophila

G Ammer, E Serbe-Kamp, AS Mauss, FG Richter… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inhibitory interactions between opponent neuronal pathways constitute a common circuit
motif across brain areas and species. However, in most cases, synaptic wiring and …

[HTML][HTML] Computational methods to study information processing in neural circuits

V Koren, G Bondanelli, S Panzeri - Computational and Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
The brain is an information processing machine and thus naturally lends itself to be studied
using computational tools based on the principles of information theory. For this reason …

mEMbrain: an interactive deep learning MATLAB tool for connectomic segmentation on commodity desktops

EC Pavarino, E Yang, N Dhanyasi, MD Wang… - Frontiers in Neural …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Connectomics is fundamental in propelling our understanding of the nervous system's
organization, unearthing cells and wiring diagrams reconstructed from volume electron …

Fast imaging of millimeter-scale areas with beam deflection transmission electron microscopy

Z Zheng, CS Own, AA Wanner, RA Koene… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Serial section transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has proven to be one of the leading
methods for millimeter-scale 3D imaging of brain tissues at nanoscale resolution. It is …

Inferring the temporal evolution of synaptic weights from dynamic functional connectivity

M Celotto, S Lemke, S Panzeri - Brain Informatics, 2022 - Springer
How to capture the temporal evolution of synaptic weights from measures of dynamic
functional connectivity between the activity of different simultaneously recorded neurons is …

[HTML][HTML] Structure, dynamics, coding and optimal biophysical parameters of efficient excitatory-inhibitory spiking networks

V Koren, SB Malerba, T Schwalger, S Panzeri - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The principle of efficient coding posits that sensory cortical networks are designed to encode
maximal sensory information with minimal metabolic cost. Despite the major influence of …

Mirrored might: A vision for inhibition

LA Koek, B Scholl - Neuron, 2024 - Elsevier
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Emergence and long-term maintenance of modularity in spiking neural networks with plasticity

R Bergoin, A Torcini, G Deco, M Quoy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the last three decades the field of brain connectivity has uncovered that cortical regions,
interconnected via white-matter fibers, form a modular and hierarchical network. This type of …