Neural decoding articles within Nature

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    Single-neuron and population activity in the macaque prefrontal and temporal cortex robustly encodes 24 species-typical behaviours, reciprocity in social interactions and social support.

    • Camille Testard
    • , Sébastien Tremblay
    •  & Michael L. Platt
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    Studies in mice show that observational fear learning is encoded by neurons in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex in a manner that is distinct from the encoding of fear learned by direct experience.

    • Shana E. Silverstein
    • , Ruairi O’Sullivan
    •  & Andrew Holmes
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    Offline cortical reactivations predict the gradual drift and separation in sensory cortical response patterns and may enhance sensory discrimination.

    • Nghia D. Nguyen
    • , Andrew Lutas
    •  & Mark L. Andermann
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    | Open Access

    A speech-to-text brain–computer interface that records spiking activity from intracortical microelectrode arrays enabled an individual who cannot speak intelligibly to achieve 9.1 and 23.8% word error rates on a 50- and 125,000-word vocabulary, respectively.

    • Francis R. Willett
    • , Erin M. Kunz
    •  & Jaimie M. Henderson
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    | Open Access

    A new encoding method, CEBRA, jointly uses behavioural and neural data in a (supervised) hypothesis- or (self-supervised) discovery-driven manner to produce both consistent and high-performance latent spaces.

    • Steffen Schneider
    • , Jin Hwa Lee
    •  & Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis
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    The mouse neocortex supports sensory performance through transient increases in sensory coding redundancy, neural codes that are robust to cellular variability, and inter-area fluctuation modes that transmit sensory data and task responses in non-interfering channels.

    • Sadegh Ebrahimi
    • , Jérôme Lecoq
    •  & Mark J. Schnitzer
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    In macaque motor cortex, moment-to-moment fluctuations in neurally derived decision variables are tightly linked to decision state and predict behavioural choices with better accuracy than condition-averaged decision variables or the visual stimulus alone, and can be used to distinguish between different models of decision making.

    • Diogo Peixoto
    • , Jessica R. Verhein
    •  & William T. Newsome
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    In mouse models of Parkinson’s disease and dyskinesia, striatal spiny projection neurons of the direct and indirect pathways have abnormal, imbalanced levels of spontaneous and locomotor-related activity, with the two different disease states characterized by opposite abnormalities.

    • Jones G. Parker
    • , Jesse D. Marshall
    •  & Mark J. Schnitzer
  • Letter |

    Recording from Purkinje cells in monkeys, this study found that the combined simple-spike responses of bursting and pausing Purkinje cells, but not either population alone, predicted the real-time speed of saccades; moreover, when Purkinje cells were organized according to their complex-spike field, the population responses encoded both speed and direction of the eye during saccades via a gain field.

    • David J. Herzfeld
    • , Yoshiko Kojima
    •  & Reza Shadmehr