Ryo Aoki

This study investigates how descending and afferent inputs interact in spinal motor circuits using TMS and tSCS, revealing timing-dependent and spatially non-uniform interactions.

The paper shows that mice can discriminate textures and that the secondary visual area (LM) encodes texture statistics more efficiently than the primary area (V1), linking stimulus complexity to neural representation and perception.

The paper identifies evolutionary conserved and specialized pathways in the zebrafish cortico-basal ganglia circuit using transgenic tools and single-cell RNA sequencing.

This study shows mice can perform a complex orientation discrimination task with acuity of at least 6 degrees, using a novel probabilistic choice model to analyze behavioral strategies.

This study identifies a distributed decision variable in mouse posterior cortex during a visual discrimination task, showing it is context-dependent and modulated by task difficulty and attention.

The paper shows attention decorrelates visual and motor signals in the mouse visual cortex during a discrimination task.

This study investigates the role of AUTS2 in cerebellar development, Purkinje cell maturation, and behavioral functions, finding that its loss leads to cerebellar defects and behavioral impairments linked to ASDs.