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Each month, SCGB scans the bioRxiv and arXiv for interesting papers from the SCGB community and beyond.
Unsupervised learning and clustered connectivity enhance reinforcement learning in spiking neural networks
Philipp Weidel, Renato Duarte, and Abigail Morrison
bioRxiv posted 18 March 2020
Scalable method for micro-CT analysis enables large scale quantitative characterization of brain lesions and implants
David B Kastner, Viktor Kharazia, Rhino Nevers, Daniela Astudillo Maya, Greer M Williams, Zhounan Yang, Clay Smyth, Luca Della Santina, Dilworth Y Parkinson and Loren M Frank
bioRxiv. posted 14 March 2020
Differential encoding in prefrontal cortex projection neuron classes across cognitive tasks
Jan H Lui, Nghia D Nguyen, Sophie M Grutzner, Spyros Darmanis, Diogo Peixoto, Mark J Wagner, William E Allen, Justus M Kebschull, Ethan B Richman, Jing Ren, William T Newsome, Stephen R Quake, and Liqun Luo
bioRxiv posted 14 March 2020
Learning prediction error neurons in a canonical interneuron circuit
Loreen Hertäg and Henning Sprekeler
bioRxiv posted 7 March 2020
Autoencoder networks extract latent variables and encode these variables in their connectomes
Matthew Farrell, Stefano Recanatesi, R. Clay Reid, Stefan Mihalas, and Eric Shea-Brown
bioRxiv posted 5 March 2020
Temporal learning among prefrontal and striatal ensembles
Eric B. Emmons, Gabriela Chiuffa Tunes, Jeeyu Choi, Robert Austin Bruce, Matthew Weber, Youngcho Kim, and Nandakumar Narayanan
bioRxiv posted 6 March 2020
Internal state configures olfactory behavior and early sensory processing in Drosophila larva
Katrin Vogt, David Zimmerman, Matthias Schlichting, Luis Alonso Hernandez Nunez, Shanshan Qin, Karen Malacon, Michael Rosbash, Cengiz Pehlevan, Albert Cardona, and Aravinthan Samuel
bioRxiv posted 2 March 2020
Temporal learning among prefrontal and striatal ensembles
Eric B. Emmons, Gabriela Chiuffa Tunes, Jeeyu Choi, Robert Austin Bruce, Matthew Weber, Youngcho Kim, and Nandakumar Narayanan
bioRxiv posted 2 March 2020
Citric Acid water as an alternative to water scheduling in behaving mice
Anne E Urai, Valeria Aguillon-Rodriguez, Inês Laranjeira, Fanny Cazettes, The International Brain Laboratory, Zachary F Mainen, and Anne K Churchland
bioRxiv posted 2 March 2020
Dissociable roles of central striatum and anterior lateral motor area in initiating and sustaining naturalistic behavior
Victoria Corbit, Sean C. Piantadosi, Jesse T Wood, Grace Liu, Clare J.Y. Choi, Ilana Witten, Aryn H. Gittis, and Susanne E. Ahmari
bioRxiv posted 1 March 2020
