From the bioRxiv: A Selection of Recently Posted Papers from SCGB Investigators and Others

Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.

Hierarchical recruitment of competition alleviates working memory overload in a fronto-parietal model

Dominic Standage, Martin Pare, and Gunnar Blohm

bioRxiv posted 27 August 2017

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Slot-like capacity and resource-like coding in a neural model of multiple-item working memory

Dominic Standage and Martin Pare

bioRxiv posted 27 August 2017

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Optogenetic inhibition reveals distinct roles for basolateral amygdala activity at discrete timepoints during risky decision making

Caitlin A. Orsini, Caesar M. Hernandez, Sarthak Singhal, Kyle B. Kelly, Charles J. Frazier, Jennifer L. Bizon, and Barry Setlow

bioRxiv posted 25 August 2017

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Contributions of different prefrontal cortical regions to abstract rule acquisition and reversal in monkeys

Giancarlo La Camera, Sebastien Bouret, and Barry J. Richmond

bioRxiv posted 25 August 2017

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Rapid whole brain imaging of neural activity in freely behaving larval zebrafish (Danio rerio)

Lin Cong, Zeguan Wang, Yuming Chai, Wei Hang, Chunfeng Shang, Wenbin Yang, Lu Bai, Jiulin Du, Kai Wang, and Quan Wen

bioRxiv posted 25 August 2017

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A neural algorithm for a fundamental computing problem

Sanjoy Dasgupta, Charles F Stevens, and Saket Navlakha

bioRxiv posted 25 August 2017

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Neural dynamics of variable grasp movement preparation in the macaque fronto-parietal network

Jonathan A. Michaels, Benjamin Dann, Rijk W. Intveld, and Hansjörg Scherberger

bioRxiv posted 23 August 2017

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Population coding of grasp and laterality-related information in the macaque fronto-parietal network

Jonathan A. Michaels and Hansjörg Scherberger

bioRxiv posted 23 August 2017

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Bayesian Efficient Coding

Il Memming Park and Jonathan W. Pillow
bioRxiv posted 22 August 2017

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Multiple tasks viewed from the neural manifold: Stable control of varied behavior

Juan Alvaro Gallego, Matthew G. Perich, Stephanie N. Naufel, Christian Ethier, Sara A Solla, and Lee E. Miller

bioRxiv posted 21 August 2017

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Olfactory coding in the turbulent realm

Vincent Jacob, Christelle Monsempes, Jean-Pierre Rospars, Jean-Baptiste Masson, and Philippe Lucas

bioRxiv posted 21 August 2017

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Community-based benchmarking improves spike inference from two-photon calcium imaging data

Philipp Berens, Jeremy Freeman, Thomas Deneux, Nicolay Chenkov, Thomas McColgan, Artur Speiser, Jakob H. Macke, Srinivas Turaga, Patrick Mineault, Peter Rupprecht, Stephan Gerhard, Rainer W. Friedrich, Johannes Friedrich, Liam Paninski, Marius Pachitariu, Kenneth D. Harris, Ben Bolte, Timothy A. Machado, Dario Ringach, Jasmine Stone, Nicolas J Sofroniew, Jacob Reimer, Emmanouil Froudarakis, Thomas Euler, Miroslav Roman-Roson, Lucas Theis, Andreas S. Tolias, and Matthias Bethge

bioRxiv posted 19 August 2017

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Deep learning: Using machine learning to study biological vision

Najib J. Majaj and Denis G. Pelli

bioRxiv posted 18 August 2017

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A high-performance, inexpensive setup for simultaneous multi-site recording of electrophysiological signals and wide-field optical imaging of the mouse cortex

Edgar J Bermudez Contreras, Sergey Chekhov, Jennifer Tarnowsky, Jianjun Sun, Bruce L McNaughton, and Majid H Mohajerani

bioRxiv posted 17 August 2017

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Computational mechanisms underlying cortical responses to the affordance properties of visual scenes

Michael F. Bonner and Russell A. Epstein

bioRxiv posted 17 August 2017

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Deep Recurrent Neural Network Reveals a Hierarchy of Process Memory during Dynamic Natural Vision

Junxing Shi, Haiguang Wen, Yizhen Zhang, Kuan Han, and Zhongming Liu

bioRxiv posted 17 August 2017

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Spontaneous activity synchronizes whisker-related sensorimotor networks prior to their maturation in the developing rat cortex

David Andrew McVea, Timothy Hugh Murphy, and Majid H. Mohajerani

bioRxiv posted 15 August 2017

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Encoding Sensory and Motor Patterns as Time-Invariant Trajectories in Recurrent Neural Networks

Vishwa Goudar and Dean V. Buonomano

bioRxiv posted 14 August 2017

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Sniff invariant odor coding

Roman Shusterman, Yevgeniy B. Sirotin, Matthew C. Smear, Yashar Ahmadian, and Dmitry Rinberg

bioRxiv posted 11 August 2017

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Multi-Transition Systems: A theory for neural spatial navigation

Nicolai Waniek

bioRxiv posted 10 August 2017

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Global and local excitation and inhibition shape the dynamics of the cortico-striatal-thalamo-cortical pathway

Anca R Radulescu, Joanna Herron, Caitlin Kennedy, and Annalisa Scimemi

bioRxiv posted 8 August 2017

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A spatial memory signal shows that the parietal cortex has access to a craniotopic representation of space

Mulugeta Semework, Sara C. Steenrod, and Michael E. Goldberg

bioRxiv posted 8 August 2017

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Heterogeneities in afferent connectivity dominate local heterogeneities in the emergence of response decorrelation in the dentate gyrus

Poonam Mishra and Rishikesh Narayanan

bioRxiv posted 8 August 2017

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A functioning model of human time perception

Warrick Roseboom, Zafeirios Fountas, Kyriacos Nikiforou, David Bhowmik, Murray Shanahan, and Anil K. Seth

bioRxiv posted 4 August 2017

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Task Demands Predict a Dynamic Switch in the Content of Awake Hippocampal Replay

Freyja Olafsdottir, Francis Carpenter, and Caswell Barry

bioRxiv posted 4 August 2017

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Distinct Laminar Processing of Local and Global Context in Primate Primary Visual Cortex

Maryam Bijanzadeh, Lauri Nurminen, Sam Merlin, and Alessandra Angelucci

bioRxiv posted 2 August 2017

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Spatial vision by macaque midbrain

Chih-Yang Chen, Lukas Sonnenberg, Simone Weller, Thede Witschel, and Ziad M. Hafed

bioRxiv posted 2 August 2017

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Triple dissociation of attention and decision computations across prefrontal cortex

Laurence T. Hunt, W. M. Nishantha Malalasekera, Archy O. de Berker, Bruno Miranda, Simon F. Farmer, Timothy E. J. Behrens, and Steven W. Kennerley

bioRxiv posted 1 August 2017

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Comparison of decision-related signals in sensory and motor preparatory responses of neurons in Area LIP

Shushruth, Mark E. Mazurek, and Michael N. Shadlen

bioRxiv posted 27 July 2017

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Modeling mesoscopic cortical dynamics using a mean-field model of conductance-based networks of adaptive exponential integrate-and-fire neurons

Yann Zerlaut, Sandrine Chemla, Frederic Chavane, and Alain Destexhe

bioRxiv posted 26 July 2017

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