cloudSLEAP – PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Understanding how the brain produces complex behavior is a central goal of neuroscience, but quantifying behavior is technically challenging, particularly in unrestrained and naturalistic settings.
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cloudSLEAP: Maximizing accessibility to deep learning-based motion capture
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Talmo D. Pereira
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salk institute for biological studies
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Cognitive and Neural Strategies for Latent Feature Inference
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Tahra Eissa
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university of colorado
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PROJECT SUMMARY The world around us has a statistical structure that we can use to improve our choices. Learning the underlying structure by identifying key features, such as the rate of change, is useful for adapting and optimizing our decision-making strategies.
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Commercial translation of high-density carbon fiber electrode arrays for multi-modal analysis of neural microcircuits
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Rajmohan Bhandari, Cynthia Anne Chestek, Daniel Powell, Florian Solzbacher
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blackrock microsystems
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The ability to measure and manipulate local brain circuit activity in living, behaving animals is essential to understanding the complexities of brain function and dysfunction.
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Contextual modulation of visual decision-making across the visual hierarchy
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Pamela Reinagel
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university of california, san diego
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Project Summary/Abstract In sensory decision-making, choices are influenced by non-sensory factors such as motivation, attention, and recent trial history.
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Continuous development of nTracer2 and its deployment at NIH image repositories
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Dawen Cai, Yan Yan
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university of michigan at ann arbor
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Abstract In response to the BRAIN Initiative “Integration and Analysis of BRAIN Initiative Data” FOA, we propose further developing nTracer2, a cloud-based platform for brain image visualization and neuron tracing in the web browser.
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CONVERGENT PROCESSING ACROSS VISUAL AND HAPTIC CIRCUITS FOR 3D SHAPE PERCEPTION
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Charles E Connor, Daniel Hans O'connor
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johns hopkins university
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THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: Vision and touch share a critical function—perception of 3D object shape.
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Cortical assembly formation through excitatory/inhibitory circuit plasticity
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Brent D. Doiron, Anne-Marie Michelle Oswald
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university of chicago
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Cortical assembly formation through excitatory/inhibitory circuit plasticity. Project Summary Throughout the brain, sensory information is thought to be represented by the joint activity of neurons that form functionally connected assemblies.
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Cortical circuit dynamics underlying multisensory decision making
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Christopher R Fetsch
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johns hopkins university
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Project Summary To navigate and guide locomotion in a complex 3D environment, humans and animals must make countless judgments of their direction of self-motion, or heading.
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CRCNS US-German Research Proposal: Quantitative and Computational Dissection of Glutamatergic Crosstalk at Tripartite Synapses
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Ghanim Ullah
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university of south florida
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CRCNS US-German Research Proposal: Quantitative and computational dissection of glutamatergic crosstalk at tripartite synapses (1) Christine R Rose, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany (2) Christian Henneberger, University of Bonn, Germany (3) Ghanim Ullah, University of South Florida,
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Cross-modal sensory interactions, processing, and representation in the Drosophila brain
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Itai Cohen, Noah John Cowan, Jessica Fox, Sung Soo Kim
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cornell university
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Robust navigation, which is critical for an animal’s survival, requires the processing of complex sensory information spanning different modalities and time scales.
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DDALAB: Identifying Latent States from Neural Recordings with Nonlinear Causal Analysis
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Terrence J Sejnowski
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university of california, san diego
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Summary The goal of this proposal is to develop DDALAB, a software platform that will make it possible for researchers to identify latent cortical states and analyze the flow of information in large populations of neurons using Delay Differential Analysis (DDA).
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Deconstructing the sertonin system in the mouse brain
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Liqun Luo, Scott Warren Linderman
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stanford university
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PROJECT SUMMARY Serotonin is an evolutionarily conserved neurotransmitter that modulates the activity of excitatory and inhibitory neurons throughout the entire mammalian brain and is thus essential for diverse aspects of physiology and behavior.
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Developing an Optogenetics Technology Based on Natural Potassium-selective Channelrhodopsins
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John Lee Spudich, Francois St-Pierre, Mingshan Xue
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university of texas hlth sci ctr houston
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SUMMARY Mapping individual on channelrhodopsins types inhibitory transporting as presynaptic objective temporally propose gated whose the function of neural circuits in the brain crucially relies on the ability to both activate and silence circuit components to subsequently assess their impact on
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Developing novel neural network tools for accurate and interpretable dynamical modeling of neural circuits
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Christopher Versteeg
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emory university
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Abstract In recent years, the number of neurons that we can record simultaneously has seen an exponential increase, presenting a daunting challenge: how do we analyze these complex and high-dimensional datasets to gain insight into how neural circuits perform computation?
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Developing Novel Trans-Synaptic Viral Vectors for Orthogonal or Rapid Circuit Tracing
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Euiseok J Kim
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university of california santa cruz
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Project Summary To determine the anatomical basis of complex neural behavior, it is critical to have the ability to trace more than one circuit simultaneously in the same animal.
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Development and In Vivo Validation of a Theoretical Framework and Practical Methods to Improve Safety and Efficacy of Neuromodulation Electrodes
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Kip A Ludwig
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university of wisconsin-madison
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Despite widespread clinical use, the theoretical framework by which to understand safety of electrical stimulation through implanted electrodes is surprisingly limited.
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Development of a combined Gamma/Positron system for molecular imaging of the human brain at sub-500 micron spatial resolution
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Shiva Abbaszadeh, Lars R Furenlid, Michael A King
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university of arizona
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SUMMARY We are proposing a new approach to a hybrid imaging modality that has been called “b+g” or “pamma-positron” Imaging [Gri07] that promises to simultaneously overcome 1) the sensitivity limits of single-gamma-ray-photon emission imaging, 2) the challenge of distinguishing between two differ
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Development of Quantum Magnetic Tunneling Junction Sensor Arrays for Brain Magnetoencephalography (MEG) under Natural Settings
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Jerome N Sanes, Gang Xiao
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brown university
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Project Summary The long-term objective of this project is to develop a revolutionary quantum mechanical solid-state magnetometer designed to non-invasively detect femtoTesla (fT) scale magnetic fields derived from the brain’s electrical activities during natural human experiences.
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DIrectional and SCalable (DISC) Microelectrode Array for Speech Decoding
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John P Seymour, Nitin Tandon
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university of texas hlth sci ctr houston
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Abstract Currently, the brain-computer interface (BCI) field has demonstrated two distinct device strategies - macroelectrodes (e.g., surface grids and depth) versus microelectrode arrays, and some are even pushing the field to smaller, higher density arrays hoping to address the general signal d
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Dissecting modular and redundant organization of cortical circuits
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Shaul Druckmann, Nuo Li
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baylor college of medicine
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Abstract In many cognitive processes, information is processed in a parallel manner across many brain regions.