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Kanold lab
@kanoldlab.bsky.social
Professor; Neuroscientist & Engineer @Johns Hopkins University; JHU BME Phd Program Co-Director;
studying how we hear & how experience shapes the brain; 
ultra runner (ideally trails); motorcycles; 
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New preprint out: in collaboration with Adam Charles (‪@baselesspursuit.bsky.social‬) Liang and Mingxuan show how single unit activity and neural motifs in A1 provide different information in parallel within the greater neural population. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Precise Extraction of Neural Motifs Reveals Multiscale, Parallel Encoding Schemes in Auditory Cortex
Neural population activity is often stereotyped into recurring activity patterns, i.e., neural motifs, which can be seen as the fundamental building blocks in sensory processing and cognition. In this...
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August 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New paper out! Peter, Sahar, and Anuthhara show that even though the frequency preference of neighboring neurons in A1 is functionally diverse, the functional connection patterns are functionally precise and harmonically related. Great collaboration with Babadi lab!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Patchy harmonic functional connectivity of the mouse auditory cortex | PNAS
Analyzing the functional connectivity of the brain is an enormous challenge, as deciphering functional connectivity requires knowledge of functiona...
www.pnas.org
July 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
New paper out: Our prior work had shown that adult visual deprivation can change circuits in the auditory cortex. Now Peter shows that temporary visual deprivation in adults can improve functional hearing and even attenuate age related high-frequency hearing loss: www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Brief periods of visual deprivation in adults increase performance on auditory tasks
Behavioral neuroscience; Cellular neuroscience; Sensory neuroscience
www.cell.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:40 AM
New preprint that was a long time in the making: HiJee and Travis use in vivo holographic optogenetic stimulation to look at how ensembles in auditory cortex interact:

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
#neuroscience#auditorycortex#optogenetics#Heaing
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July 3, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Fun to contribute to a collaborative paper with Xiaoyin Chen (Allen Institute), Jesse Gillis (Toronto), Stephan Fisher (Inst. Pasteur), and Tony Zador (CSHL).
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Whole-cortex in situ sequencing reveals input-dependent area identity - Nature
BARseq interrogates the expression of 104 cell-type marker genes in 10.3 million cells over nine mouse forebrain hemispheres to reveal the role of peripheral inputs on cortical area development.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2024 at 11:07 PM