Ronan T. O’Shea

Synchrony dynamics underlie irregular neocortical spiking

The paper shows that cortical spiking variability arises from weak synchrony rather than intrinsic properties, with synchrony dynamics shifting in response to sensory input.

Impaired thalamic burst firing in Fragile X syndrome

This study identifies impaired thalamic burst firing in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome, linking it to altered voltage sensitivity of Ca2+-dependent low threshold spikes.

Luminance invariant encoding in primary visual cortex

The paper shows that primary visual cortex maintains a luminance-invariant code despite retinal adaptation, through integration of parallel pathways at the geniculocortical synapse.

Decoding Complex Sounds Using Broadband Population Recordings from Secondary Auditory Cortex of Macaques

This study decodes English words from neural activity in macaques' secondary auditory cortex using spike-based machine learning, showing the auditory cortex processes complex sounds as a distributed network.