Another one for the magical superior colliculus. With Ninglong Xu and Yuxin Pan. We found that SC is important for planning licking responses (beyond orienting!), and it does so in cooperation with M2 (ALM), in a cell-type- and pathway-specific manner. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Congrats Eleonora Lomi !

Congrats to the team! Have to say am so proud of the talented replay rising stars - co-first authors Margot Tirole @martahuelin, my dear friends 👍

Excited to share our (w @drkjjeffery, @rmgrieves) new story of the mysterious RSC multidirectional cells: they are not intrinsic, not egocentric, but driven by rotational symmetry of the environment, encoding global information even in local subspace! A thread to follow soon.

New paper from the lab published in Science Advances today: advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/35/e… Huge thanks to first author Luis M. Franco (new to twitter). Recap of the findings in the thread below:

Our Pac-Man study is finally online! We trained two monkeys to play the Pac-Man game. The monkeys won juice rewards by playing the game. Most of the elements from the original game were kept: ghosts, energizers, fruits, tunnels, etc. (1/n)

On a side note, I started my own lab at the Institute of Neuroscience in Shanghai this June. If you are interested in studying space, memory, and intrinsic computations in the hippocampal-neocortical circuit of freely-behaving macaques, please get in touch.

How are direct and indirect pathways of the basal ganglia circuit coordinated during perceptual decision-making? Check out the new preprint from the lab! 👏👇

Happy to share our review (w Ninglong Xu) on how task-related states (incl. task engagement, categorization, rule change, execution) modulate sensory representations, with a focus on 🐭cortical circuits. Full text available here 👇 authors.elsevier.com/c/1flp63Q9h2Aq…

Now out in eLife - the journal with almost double the amount of data as the original biorxiv version! elifesciences.org/articles/79031 Thank you to all the reviewers - anonymous or not Caleb Kemere - for taking the time to help us improve the manuscript !

Very happy to announce the publication of my first first-author paper in Cell Reports! We find that ramping and phasic dopamine neuron activity reflect reward prediction error, improving goal-directed navigation. Thread (1/8) 👇 cell.com/cell-reports/f…

Fantastic opportunity - Ann is a brilliant neuroscientist and great mentor, highly recommended!