Brian Kim

Shared neural geometries for bilingual semantic representations in human hippocampal neurons

The paper investigates how bilinguals represent semantic concepts in two languages, finding shared neural geometries that support translation despite language-specific neuron responses.

The Primate Hippocampus Constructs a Temporal Scaffold Anchored to Behavioral Events

This study shows that the primate hippocampus segments experience into discrete events through abrupt population activity shifts, reflecting abstract task structure rather than specific sensory features.

Erasable Hippocampal Neural Signatures Predict Memory Discrimination

The paper shows that hippocampal place field remapping and coordinated ensemble activity, dependent on protein synthesis, are critical for contextual fear memory consolidation.

Endogenous inflammatory mediators produced by injury activate TRPV1 and TRPA1 nociceptors to induce sexually dimorphic cold pain that is dependent on TRPM8 and GFRalpha3

The paper shows that inflammatory mediators activate TRPV1 and TRPA1 nociceptors, leading to cold pain in mice that depends on TRPM8 and GFRalpha3, with sex-specific effects.

Olfactory receptor neurons generate multiple response motifs, increasing coding space dimensionality

The paper shows olfactory receptor neurons generate multiple response motifs that enhance coding dimensionality for odor classification and navigation.

Cohesin interacts with a panoply of splicing factors required for cell cycle progression and genomic organization

The paper identifies cohesin interactions with splicing factors and RNA binding proteins that regulate cell cycle progression and genomic organization in human cells.