Nik and Kayla developed a mouse school enabling high throughput behavioral testing! Read the paper from the lab introducing the ToneBox and our first observations using automated behavioral experiments. Build your own! Read it here in eNeuro

Our collaboration with the Plenz lab at NIH is out in Frontiers. Zac and Dan reveal neuronal avalanches in A1 as part of our BRAIN project. Read it here.

Ji’s multilevel study on how auditory cortex processes sound onset and onset in parallel networks in out in Cell Reports. Fun local collaboration with Butts and Babadi lab at UMD.

Could silent connections in development actually do something and not be “just” precursors to AMPA connections? Our review of what silent cortical plate connections on subplate neurons could be doing in development is out. Read it here.

Aminah’s data on the cover: Colorful LSPS maps meet classic biocytin.

Use this method by the Babadi lab for extracting functional network dynamics by adaptive Granger causality analysis from calcium imaging or ephys data. Read it here in PNAS.

Our first venture into studying A1 during behavior shows that A1 activity encodes sensory information as well as decision making.

Read “Small networks Encode Decision-Making in Auditory Cortex” in Neuron. Great collaboration with Behtash Babadi.

“Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia Causes Functional Circuit Changes in Subplate Neurons”. Read it here in Cerebral Cortex

Great collaboration with McQuillen lab at UCSF (Mcquillen lab).

Read it here in PNAS:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/11/06/1710793114.long

L2/3 of auditory cortex has distinct functional subcurcuits and sublaminar organization. Read Ying’s paper here.