Judit K. Makara

The paper identifies specialized axo-spinous contacts between layer 5 cortical terminals and thalamic spines, showing their functional role in synaptic transmission and motor learning.

This study investigates the role of calcium dynamics in place field formation in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal cells using in vivo two-photon imaging in head-restrained mice.

The paper identifies distinct dendritic Ca2+ spike types in rat CA3 pyramidal cells that produce opposing somatic outputs, suggesting functional heterogeneity in input-output transformations.

The paper investigates how functional synaptic clusters affect somatic membrane potential in neurons and finds that structured connectivity and moderate cluster size are key for effective tuning.

The paper develops a method to model dendritic computations in neurons under in vivo-like conditions and finds that a single global non-linearity captures most of the somatic response.