Publications from Primary Faculty Members - December 2015 Huang S, Hokenson K, Bandyopadhyay S, Russek SJ, Kirkwood A. Brief Dark Exposure Reduces Tonic Inhibition in Visual Cortex. J Neurosci. 2015 Dec 2;35(48):15916-20. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1813-15.2015. Silva, D, Feng, T, Foster, DJ. Trajectory events across hippocampal place cells require previous experience. Nat Neurosci. 2015 Dec;18(12):1772-9. doi: 10.1038/nn.4151. Epub 2015 Oct 26. Vazquez A, Statton MA, Busgang ...

How Our Brains Overrule Our Senses Experiments reveal brain circuits that shape sensory perceptions.   Scientists have long known that when sounds are faint or objects are seen through fog in the distance, repetition of these weak or ambiguous sensory “inputs” can result in different perceptions inside the same brain. Now the results of new research,described online Dec. 7 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, have identified brain processes in mice that may ...