Suma Chinta
@sumachinta.bsky.social
Neuroscientist 🧠 Occasionally poet and painter 🎨
Reposted by Suma Chinta
Neurons just keep mixing their selectivity.
Whisking and locomotion are jointly represented in superior colliculus neurons
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#neuroscience
Whisking and locomotion are jointly represented in superior colliculus neurons
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#neuroscience
Whisking and locomotion are jointly represented in superior colliculus neurons
To navigate the world, the brain needs to have internal models of self-motion, for example of whisker movement in mice. This study shows how neurons in the midbrain superior colliculus encode internal...
journals.plos.org
April 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Neurons just keep mixing their selectivity.
Whisking and locomotion are jointly represented in superior colliculus neurons
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#neuroscience
Whisking and locomotion are jointly represented in superior colliculus neurons
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#neuroscience
Reposted by Suma Chinta
It brings me real satisfaction to see this long overdue piece in the whisker system puzzle come to fruition. Suma Chinta's implementation of the LNP model was incredible. After seeing this data for 3+ years now, it still amazes me how well SC neurons predict movements - past, present, and future! 🐭
To navigate the world, the brain needs internal models of self-motion. @scottrpluta.bsky.social &co show how #neurons in the midbrain superior colliculus encode internal & external signals to build an accurate representation of #whisker position & locomotion speed @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/42nJIGm
April 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
It brings me real satisfaction to see this long overdue piece in the whisker system puzzle come to fruition. Suma Chinta's implementation of the LNP model was incredible. After seeing this data for 3+ years now, it still amazes me how well SC neurons predict movements - past, present, and future! 🐭
Reposted by Suma Chinta
Across the neural hierarchy, sensory maps are thought to transition from a faithful representation of receptor space to a map weighted by learned associations. Where does this transformation occur? In our latest paper, we explore a value-based spatial transformation between cortex and midbrain.
journals.plos.org
March 31, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Across the neural hierarchy, sensory maps are thought to transition from a faithful representation of receptor space to a map weighted by learned associations. Where does this transformation occur? In our latest paper, we explore a value-based spatial transformation between cortex and midbrain.