Nikolas A. Francis

The paper shows mice can detect and discriminate artificial percepts from mesoscale optogenetic cortical stimulation in an operant task.

This paper introduces a framework to extract directional functional interactions between neurons, stimuli, and behavior from two-photon calcium imaging data, revealing distinct sensori-behavioral roles in the mouse auditory cortex.

The paper investigates how mice perceive pitch using temporal cues and finds that periodotopy in auditory cortex correlates with temporal pitch recognition ability.

This study investigates how psilocybin affects cortical and behavioral activity in mice, finding biphasic effects on neural responses and behavior.

This study investigates repetition plasticity in mouse primary auditory cortex over long timescales, finding both suppression and enhancement in neural responses to repeated pure-tone frequencies.

The paper measures redundant and synergistic functional connectivity in mouse auditory cortex during a perceptual task, finding that connected neuron pairs show more redundancy and less synergy than unconnected pairs.

The paper investigates how neuronal networks in mouse auditory cortex encode behavioral choice during pure-tone discrimination tasks, finding that specialized neurons transmit task-relevant information sequentially.

This work proposes a method to directly estimate signal and noise correlations from two-photon calcium imaging data without spike deconvolution, validated on simulated and mouse auditory cortex data.

This study shows that perinatal fentanyl exposure in mice leads to somatic withdrawal and lifelong neurobehavioral changes similar to human neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.

The paper investigates task-related plasticity in ferret primary auditory cortex, finding greater enhancement of auditory target representation in layers 2/3 compared to layers 4-6.

The paper investigates how auditory attention affects ear-canal noise during a sound discrimination task and finds that noise reduction correlates with attention, not MOC inhibition.

The paper investigates neural responses in ferret dorsolateral frontal cortex during an auditory reversal task, finding that weak representation of behavioral meaning correlates with proactive interference.