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Modularity Of Feedback For State-Dependent Guidance Of Navigation In Mouse Visual Cortex, Andrew M. Meier
Modularity Of Feedback For State-Dependent Guidance Of Navigation In Mouse Visual Cortex, Andrew M. Meier
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Navigating through unpredictable environments requires an efficiently organized sensory system capable of adapting to behavioral demands. In the mammalian visual system, two adaptations which have arisen to meet these demands are parallel processing and top-down feedback of internally generated expectations and contextual information for adjusting responses to match the needs of the current behavioral task. Mouse visual cortex exhibits the latter of these organizing principles, like other mammals, in the form of a molecular layer (Layer 1) which receives feedback to contextually adapt sensory responses from the outside world. The first of these organizing principles, parallel processing streams, generally takes …
Molecular Mechanisms Responsible For Functional Cortical Plasticity During Development And After Focal Ischemic Brain Injury, Andrew Wiggen Kraft
Molecular Mechanisms Responsible For Functional Cortical Plasticity During Development And After Focal Ischemic Brain Injury, Andrew Wiggen Kraft
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The cerebral cortex is organized into functional representations, or maps, defined by increased activity during specific tasks. In addition, the brain exhibits robust spontaneous activity with spatiotemporal organization that defines the brain’s functional architecture (termed functional connectivity). Task-evoked representations and functional connectivity demonstrate experience-dependent plasticity, and this plasticity may be important in neurological development and disease. An important case of this is in focal ischemic injury, which results in destruction of the involved representations and disruption of functional connectivity relationships. Behavioral recovery correlates with representation remapping and functional connectivity normalization, suggesting functional organization is critical for recovery and a potentially …
The Molecular And Cellular Basis For Cold Sensation, Daniel Brenner
The Molecular And Cellular Basis For Cold Sensation, Daniel Brenner
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The ability to sense changes in temperature is crucial to surviving harsh environments. Over the last decade several ion channels that have been proposed to be cold sensitive have been identified, most notably TRPM8 and TRPA1. Although these molecules have been extensively studied in vitro, their exact roles in cold sensation in vivo are still debated. This uncertainty is in large part due to problems with the standard methods of testing cold sensitivity in vivo, which often rely on subjective measures of cold responsiveness. Experiments using these subjective measures have been repeated by different groups and have yielded conflicting results, …
Concentration Coding In The Accessory Olfactory System, Hannah Ada Arnson
Concentration Coding In The Accessory Olfactory System, Hannah Ada Arnson
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Understanding how sensory systems encode stimuli is a fundamental question of neuroscience. The role of every sensory system is to encode information about the identity and quantity of stimuli in the environment. Primary sensory neurons in the periphery are faced with the task of representing all relevant information for further processing by downstream circuits, ultimately leading to detection, classification and potential response. However, environmental variability potentially alters stimulus properties in non-relevant ways. Here, we address these problems using the mouse accessory olfactory system: AOS) as a model. The AOS is an independent olfactory system possessed by most terrestrial vertebrates, although …