Cristopher M. Niell

This study shows that V1 activity in mice encodes visual content sampled during gaze shifts, with responses reflecting visual input rather than movement timing alone.

This study shows mice use active sensing strategies to resolve visual uncertainty in a virtual reality task, selecting informative views based on visual information availability.

This paper identifies distinct head-eye coordination motifs during gaze shifts in freely moving mice and highlights HwE as an active coordination mode.

ViSoND enhances observation of neurodata by combining visualization and sonification to reveal patterns in behavioral and neural data.

This study shows that mice use vision to guide obstacle avoidance, making directed movements towards clear paths and achieving more efficient trajectories.

This paper investigates how the psychedelic DOI affects visual processing in mice by analyzing neural activity in V1 during naturalistic vision and gaze shifts.

The paper records neural activity in the superior colliculus of freely moving mice during eye and head movements, finding distinct response patterns in superficial and deep layers.

This study presents the first chromosome-scale genome of a female California two-spot octopus, revealing a ZO sex chromosome system and demonstrating the ancient origin of the sex chromosome in cephalopods.

This study investigates how neurons in mouse and marmoset V1 respond to gaze shifts, revealing a dynamic sequence of activity linked to visual sampling.

This study uses calcium imaging to map visual responses in the octopus optic lobe, revealing retinotopic organization and unique processing of ON/OFF stimuli.

This paper introduces a multimodal recurrent neural network to predict V1 activity in freely moving mice by integrating visual input and behavioral dynamics, showing state-of-the-art performance and revealing mixed selectivity in cortical function.

The paper presents a single-cell molecular atlas of the octopus optic lobe, identifying neuronal and non-neuronal cell types and their spatial organization.

The paper investigates how V1 neurons in freely moving mice integrate visual input with eye and head position during natural behavior, finding multiplicative integration of visual and positional signals.

This study shows mice use monocular visual cues to judge distance during gap jumping, with visual cortex involvement, and demonstrates how sensory processing couples with motor output in a natural task.

This study examines eye movement dynamics during prey capture in freely moving mice, revealing compensatory and non-compensatory movements that help stabilize and recenter gaze.

This study identifies distinct roles of three cell types in the mouse superior colliculus for prey capture behavior, showing wide-field neurons mediate detection and approach initiation while narrow-field neurons support accurate orienting during pursuit.

The paper identifies a distinct class of bursting neurons in monkey V1 that show strong gamma synchronization and stimulus selectivity, suggesting a role in encoding visual information.

The paper identifies distinct functional classes of excitatory neurons in mouse V1 and shows they differ in modulation by learning and task engagement.