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Research Round-Up: April

Highlights of some papers and presentations by CNBC faculty and their students and post-doctoral associates, listed by faculty.

Alison Barth

A. L. Barth, J. Urban-Ciecko, and E. E. Fanselow “Dynamic connectivity in somatosensory cortex” Presented at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Synapses: From molecules to behavior, April 16-20

Marlene Behrmann

Behrmann, M. and Plaut, D. C. (in press). “Distributed circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate visual recognition.” Trends in Cognitive Science.

KC Chan, Z Tse, NJ Jan, JS Schuman, SG Kim, IA Sigal. “Magic angle enhanced MR microscopy in the fibrous structures in the eye.” Presented at Proceedings of International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Salt Lake City, Apr 20-26.

Kirk Erickson

Regina Leckie, Neha Bhattacharjee, Stephen Manuck, Matthew Muldoon, Kirk Erickson “Higher Omega-3 Fatty Acid Exposure Mitigates Effects of Low Physical Activity on Cognitive Performance” Presented by Regina Leckie at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting 2013

Laurie Heller

Guillaume Lemaitre and Laurie Heller (2013) “Evidence for a basic level in a taxonomy of everyday action sounds.” Experimental Brain Research, 226: 253-264

Koyama, S., Omi, T., Kass, R.E. and Shinomoto, S. (2013) “Information transmission using non-Poisson regular firing.” Neural Computation, 25: 854-876.

Alex Kranjec

Alexander Kranjec, Geena Ianni & Anjan Chatterjee (in press) “Schemas reveal spatial relations to a patient with simultanagnosia.” Cortex

Michael Modo

Crum, W.R., Modo, M., Vernon, A.C., Wastling, S.J., Barker, G.J., Williams, S.C.R. (in Press) “Registration of challenging pre-clinical brain imaging.” Journal of Neuroscience Methods.

Jonathan Rubin

J.J. Rubin, J.E. Rubin, G.B. Ermentrout, (forthcoming) "Analysis of synchronization in a slowly changing environment: How slow coupling becomes fast weak coupling." Physical Review Letters.

Smith MA, Sommer MA (2013) “Spatial and temporal scales of neuronal correlation in visual area V4.” J Neurosci. 33: 5422-5432

Peter Strick

Bostan, A.C., Dum, R.P, Strick, P.L. (2013) “Cerebellar networks with the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia.” Trends in Cognitive Science

Benjamin Pasquereau and Robert S Turner (in press) “Limited encoding of effort by dopamine neurons in a cost-benefit trade-off task.” J. Neurosci.

Nathan Urban

Shreejoy J. Tripathy, Krishnan Padmanabhan, Richard C. Gerkin, and Nathaniel N. Urban (in press) “Intermediate intrinsic diversity enhances neural population coding.” PNAS.

Tim Verstynen

T. Verstynen, AM Weinstein, KI Erickson, L Sheu, A Marsland, PJ Gianaros (in press) “Competing physiological pathways link individual differences in weight and abdominal adiposity to white matter microstructure.” NeuroImage .