Joseph J. Paton

The dorsolateral striatum encodes a temporal basis for the organization of behavior

The paper shows that DLS neural activity in rats correlates with temporal behavior, particularly in response to the second of two sequential stimuli.

Using temperature to analyse the neural basis of a time-based decision

This study shows that temperature modulates striatal population activity and decision-making in rats, suggesting that neural dynamics, not movement kinematics, drive time-based decisions.

A robust role for motor cortex

This study challenges the traditional view of motor cortex function by showing that rats with motor cortical lesions show impairments in unexpected obstacle course scenarios but not in repeated trials.

Striatal circuits support broadly opponent aspects of action suppression and production

The paper shows that striatal direct and indirect pathways exhibit functional opponency during action suppression and production in mice.

Dopamine responses reveal efficient coding of cognitive variables

The paper investigates how reward expectations are influenced by internal representations in rodents, finding that efficient, compressed representations best match both behavior and dopaminergic activity.

High-yield methods for accurate two-alternative visual psychophysics in head-fixed mice

This paper introduces high-yield methods for two-alternative visual psychophysics in head-fixed mice, showing rapid learning and accurate psychometric curves.

Striatal dynamics explain duration judgments

This study shows that striatal neuron dynamics predict and are necessary for duration judgments in rats performing a psychophysical task.

Bonsai: An event-based framework for processing and controlling data streams

Bonsai provides a visual programming framework for managing parallel data streams in neuroscience experiments, enabling flexible and rapid prototyping of integrated experimental designs.