Vivek R. Athalye

This study shows how reinforcement learning modifies specific dendritic activity through synaptic plasticity, leading to the formation of task-relevant synaptic ensembles.

The paper shows that shared striatal neurons adapt their dynamics to support both internally and externally driven actions through context-specific changes in neural activity.

This study identifies and manipulates striatal ensembles to show they control fine motor actions in real time.

This study shows that exploratory behavior during training biases the movement strategies mice use to reach a spatial target.

This study identifies distinct roles of thalamic nuclei in the refinement of spatial reach movements in mice, showing that Pf nuclei control direction refinement while VAL nuclei influence speed and overshoot.

This study shows that invariant neural dynamics guide movement commands across different movements using a brain-machine interface in rhesus macaques.