Representational drift: Emerging theories for continual learning and experimental future directions

LN Driscoll, L Duncker, CD Harvey - Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent work has revealed that the neural activity patterns correlated with sensation,
cognition, and action often are not stable and instead undergo large scale changes over …

Imbalance between firing homeostasis and synaptic plasticity drives early-phase Alzheimer's disease

B Styr, I Slutsky - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
During recent years, the preclinical stage of Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become a major
focus of research. Continued failures in clinical trials and the realization that early …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic reorganization of neuronal activity patterns in parietal cortex

LN Driscoll, NL Pettit, M Minderer, SN Chettih… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Neuronal representations change as associations are learned between sensory stimuli and
behavioral actions. However, it is poorly understood whether representations for learned …

[HTML][HTML] Tracking the same neurons across multiple days in Ca2+ imaging data

L Sheintuch, A Rubin, N Brande-Eilat, N Geva… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Ca 2+ imaging techniques permit time-lapse recordings of neuronal activity from large
populations over weeks. However, without identifying the same neurons across imaging …

Stimulus-dependent representational drift in primary visual cortex

TD Marks, MJ Goard - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
To produce consistent sensory perception, neurons must maintain stable representations of
sensory input. However, neurons in many regions exhibit progressive drift across days …

[HTML][HTML] Cortical circuit dynamics are homeostatically tuned to criticality in vivo

Z Ma, GG Turrigiano, R Wessel, KB Hengen - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
Homeostatic mechanisms stabilize neuronal activity in vivo, but whether this process gives
rise to balanced network dynamics is unknown. Here, we continuously monitored the …

Circuit investigations with open-source miniaturized microscopes: past, present and future

D Aharoni, TM Hoogland - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The ability to simultaneously image the spatiotemporal activity signatures from many
neurons during unrestrained vertebrate behaviors has become possible through the …

The brain in motion: How ensemble fluidity drives memory-updating and flexibility

W Mau, ME Hasselmo, DJ Cai - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
While memories are often thought of as flashbacks to a previous experience, they do not
simply conserve veridical representations of the past but must continually integrate new …

NINscope, a versatile miniscope for multi-region circuit investigations

A de Groot, BJG van den Boom, RM van Genderen… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Miniaturized fluorescence microscopes (miniscopes) have been instrumental to monitor
neural signals during unrestrained behavior and their open-source versions have made …

Inhibitory connectivity defines the realm of excitatory plasticity

G Mongillo, S Rumpel, Y Loewenstein - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Recent experiments demonstrate substantial volatility of excitatory connectivity in the
absence of any learning. This challenges the hypothesis that stable synaptic connections …