Shreesh Mysore PhD

Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences




[17] Fan X, and Mysore SP (under submission), Contribute to balance, wire in accordance: Emergence of backpropagation from a simple, bio-plausible plasticity rule, bioRxiv, https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.22.595438

[16] Banerjee A*, Kothari NB*, Mysore SP (in revision, J Neurosci), Pooled versus structured inhibition drives stimulus competition across distinct spatial scales in the superior colliculus. bioRxiv,https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.16.694660

[15] Fan X, and Mysore SP (2026), Quantifying information stored in synaptic connections rather than firing activities of neural networks, Neural Computation, 2026 Jul 31:1-34, https://doi.org/10.1162/NECO.a.1566 [TheNeuralFeed Commentary]

[14] Kothari NB, Banerjee A, Zhang Q, You W-K, and Mysore SP (2026), Evolutionarily old brain stem neurons are required for the control of selective spatial attention, Nat Commun, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-72340-9[JHU-HUB][LinkedIn][Inc][EconomicTimes][ScienceAlert][TechTimes][ScienceDaily][NeurosciNews][Azo][Psypost][DeBrief][MedXpress][NewMedical][MHE][econews][Labcompare][Gigazine]

[13] Huang H#, Shah G#, Adwanikar H* and Mysore SP*(2026), Reliable inference of the encoding of task states by individual neurons using calcium imaging, eNeuro, 2026 Jan 27;13(1):ENEURO.0378-25.2025 https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0378-25.2025  [Editorial Commentary]

[12] Zhang L and Mysore SP (2025), The barn owl in systems and behavioral neuroscience: progress and promise, Curr. Opinion Neurobiol., 91:102983. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2025.102983. Epub 2025 Feb 22. PMID: 39987690 

[11]  Schryver HM, and Mysore SP (2023), Distinct neural mechanisms control classical versus extraclassiucal surrounds in an inhibitory nucleus in the midbrain attention network, Nat Commun, 2023 June 09.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39073-5

[10]  Mahajan NR and Mysore SP (2022), Donut-like organization of inhibition underlies categorical neural responses, Nat Commun, 2022 Mar 30; 13(1): 1680.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29318-0    

[9]  You, W-K and Mysore SP (2022), Dynamics of visual perceptual decision-making in freely behaving mice, eNeuro, 2022 Mar 15;9(2):eneuro.0161-21.2022, https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0161-21.2022  

[8]  Popovitz J, Mysore SP*, Adwanikar H* (2021), Neural markers of vulnerability to anxiety outcomes following traumatic brain injury, J Neurotrauma, Apr 15, 38(8):1006-1022, doi: 10.1089/neu.2020.7320; Epub 2020 Dec 17.

[7] Mysore SP and Kothari NB (2020), Mechanisms of competitive selection: A canonical neural circuit framework, eLife, May 20; 9:e51473, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.51473  

[6] You, W-K and Mysore SP (2020). Endogenous and exogenous control of visuospatial selective attention in freely behaving mice, Nat Commun, Apr 24;11(1):1986. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15909-2   

[5] Schryver HM, Straka M and Mysore SP (2020), Categorical signaling of the strongest stimulus by an inhibitory midbrain nucleus, J Neurosci, 40(21):4172-4184 doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0042-20.2020. Epub 2020 Apr 16. [Featured article]

[4] Vandaele Y, Mahajan NR, Ottenheimer D, Richard JM, Mysore SP, and Janak P (2019), Distinct recruitment of dorsomedial and dorsolateral striatum erodes with extended training, eLife, 8:e49536 doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.49536

[3] Schryver HM and Mysore SP (2019) Spatial dependence of stimulus competition in the avian nucleus isthmi pars magnocellularis, Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 93(2-3):137-151

[2] Popovitz J, Mysore SP and Adwanikar H (2019) Long-term effects of traumatic brain injury on anxiety-like behaviors in mice: behavioral and neural correlates. Front Behav Neurosci. 13:6.

[1] Mahajan NR and Mysore SP (2018) Combinatorial neural inhibition for stimulus selection across space. Cell Reports, Oct 30, 25:1-13. [Cover article]