Our new paper is out in Neuron!
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
How does the brain decide how much of the past to use when making decisions? In rapidly changing environments, recent experiences matter more; in stable environments, longer histories are useful.
Zhang et al. show that mice flexibly adjust how past experiences guide choices in
fast- and slow-changing environments. Retrosplenial cortex neurons display a wide
range of history-integration timesca...
We found that changes in primary motor cortex are required for the learning of consistent movement patterns, but not important for other aspects of the task learning, like learning to move in response to a cue.
Congratulations to Jake and the team! Jake will start his own lab at Rutgers in 2027!
Takaki Komiyama
A new @nature.com study from Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain investigator @takakikomiyama.bsky.social finds that as mice learn a complex movement, the pathway from the motor thalamus to the motor cortex rewires itself to drive the movement: www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/11/h... #science
Come see me at my Special Lecture on cortical circuits for learned movements, Monday morning at 10:30AM. #Sfn2025
We found that mice adjust their history-integration strategies, and identified adaptive reconfiguration of neural circuits in the retrosplenial cortex that match behavioral adaptation.
Great work by Eva and all co-authors!
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Our new work is out in Science Advances. We show that neural activity in the striatum reflects not just cortical inputs, but also often-underappreciated thalamic inputs.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our new paper is out in Current Biology!
We learn many things in parallel, and brain circuits are constantly rewiring across brain areas. It is notoriously difficult to understand which rewiring events are responsible for which type of learning.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Will you be at #SfN25? Don’t miss these lectures:
📍Sun 11/16 3pm: The Neural Code of Speech (Edward Chang, KIFN)
📍Mon 11/17 10:30am: Motor Cortex Circuits for Learned Movements (Takaki Komiyama, KIBM)
📍Tue 11/18 5:30pm: Neuronal Aging & Cognitive Decline (Rusty Gage, KIBM)
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