Pavel E. Rueda‐Orozco

Preconfigured cortico-thalamic neural dynamics constrain movement-associated thalamic activity

The paper shows that preconfigured neural activity patterns in the motor thalamus are rigid, experience-independent, and linked to specific movement-related subpopulations.

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.

Response outcomes gate the impact of expectations on perceptual decisions

The paper shows that rats adjust their decision biases based on previous outcomes, using a model where reward signals gate the influence of expectations on decisions.

A minority-ruled population coding of kinematics in the striatum

This study shows that striatal ensembles, not individual neurons, encode kinematic parameters during motor sequence performance, with a minority of neurons contributing most to encoding accuracy.