What can we learn from inactivation studies? Lessons from auditory cortex

ZA Slonina, KC Poole, JK Bizley - Trends in Neurosciences, 2022 - cell.com
Inactivation experiments in auditory cortex (AC) produce widely varying results that
complicate interpretations regarding the precise role of AC in auditory perception and …

Spatial maps in piriform cortex during olfactory navigation

C Poo, G Agarwal, N Bonacchi, ZF Mainen - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Odours are a fundamental part of the sensory environment used by animals to guide
behaviours such as foraging and navigation,. Primary olfactory (piriform) cortex is thought to …

A novel somatosensory spatial navigation system outside the hippocampal formation

X Long, SJ Zhang - Cell research, 2021 - nature.com
Spatially selective firing of place cells, grid cells, boundary vector/border cells and head
direction cells constitutes the basic building blocks of a canonical spatial navigation system …

[HTML][HTML] Ferret contributions to the business of sensory neurobiology

RHC Norris, JK Bizley - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2024 - Elsevier
In this brief review, we will highlight the ferret Mustela putorius furo as an increasingly
utilized animal model for sensory systems and cognitive neuroscience research. In …

Auditory cortex ensembles jointly encode sound and locomotion speed to support sound perception during movement

CA Vivaldo, J Lee, MC Shorkey, A Keerthy… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The ability to process and act upon incoming sounds during locomotion is critical for survival
and adaptive behavior. Despite the established role that the auditory cortex (AC) plays in …

Shared neural underpinnings of multisensory integration and trial-by-trial perceptual recalibration in humans

H Park, C Kayser - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Perception adapts to mismatching multisensory information, both when different cues
appear simultaneously and when they appear sequentially. While both multisensory …

Encoding of 3D physical dimensions by face-selective cortical neurons

AP Khandhadia, AP Murphy… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Neurons throughout the primate inferior temporal (IT) cortex respond selectively to visual
images of faces and other complex objects. The response magnitude of neurons to a given …

Peripersonal encoding of forelimb proprioception in the mouse somatosensory cortex

I Alonso, I Scheer, M Palacio-Manzano… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Conscious perception of limb movements depends on proprioceptive neural responses in
the somatosensory cortex. In contrast to tactile sensations, proprioceptive cortical coding is …

Sound identity is represented robustly in auditory cortex during perceptual constancy

SM Town, KC Wood, JK Bizley - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Perceptual constancy requires neural representations that are selective for object identity,
but also tolerant across identity-preserving transformations. How such representations arise …

Frequency-dependent integration of auditory and vestibular cues for self-motion perception

CS Shayman, RJ Peterka, FJ Gallun… - Journal of …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Recent evidence has shown that auditory information may be used to improve postural
stability, spatial orientation, navigation, and gait, suggesting an auditory component of self …