Leila May Pascual

Millisecond-scale motor coding precedes sensorimotor learning in songbirds

This study shows that millisecond-scale spike timing codes for vocal acoustics exist throughout songbird vocal development, contradicting the hypothesis that rate-based coding transitions to timing-based coding during learning.

Temporal dynamics of Na/K pump mediated memory traces: insights from conductance-based models of Drosophila neurons

This study uses computational models of Drosophila neurons to show that Na/K pump dynamics influence neuronal excitability, spike rate adaptation, and long-term memory-like changes in response to stimuli.

Becoming a better parent: mice learn sounds that improve a stereotyped maternal behavior

This study shows that mice can learn to use a specific sound cue to improve their maternal behavior in retrieving pups, demonstrating sensory learning's role in modifying stereotyped maternal actions.

Interaction of taste and place coding in the hippocampus

This study investigates how hippocampal neurons in rats respond to taste stimuli and spatial contexts, finding that taste-responsive cells have less spatial specificity and that taste responses are context-dependent.