Marcus K. Benna

The paper identifies the amygdalostriatal transition zone (ASt) as a critical structure for encoding sustained cue responses that guide defensive behaviors.

This study identifies a BLA-mPFC neural pathway through which social isolation increases alcohol drinking in male mice by altering prefrontal cortex activity.

The paper shows that interacting dendrite-update rules improve memory capacity in a parallel-dendrite model by reducing response variance and decorrelating weights.

This paper introduces ShaReD, a method for analyzing multi-subject neural data without requiring temporal or anatomical alignment, and demonstrates its effectiveness on synthetic and animal data.

This paper shows that neurons with multiple nonlinear synapses can classify data better than a Perceptron and improve test accuracy in MNIST classification.

This study shows social exclusion increases physical pain responses through insular neuromodulation in mice, with opposing endocannabinoid and oxytocin signaling.

This paper demonstrates that complex synapses enhance memory capacity for face familiarity detection, outperforming simple synapses in real-world recognition tasks.

This paper proposes a memory model of the hippocampus that explains place cells as a result of memory compression, showing that their spatial tuning and history dependence arise from compressed representations of sensory experiences.

This study investigates how familiar faces are encoded in the brain, finding that they are represented in a distinct long-latency code in IT and perirhinal cortex that enhances discrimination.

The paper examines how neural representations in monkeys and simulated networks encode abstract variables for generalization in decision-making tasks.