Kevin M. Franks

The paper investigates how odor information is routed through feedforward and feedback pathways in the mouse olfactory cortex, finding distinct temporal encoding and plasticity in neurons projecting to different targets.

This study shows that neural representations of hunger and thirst are distinct in neonatal mice before they can seek food and water separately, and these representations persist despite environmental changes.

The paper identifies embryonically active piriform cortex neurons in mice and shows they promote recurrent connectivity during development through enhanced synaptic interactions.

This study investigates how mouse olfactory bulb spiking activity encodes temporal features of natural odor plumes, finding that population-level activity captures plume onset, offset, and presence/absence, while individual cells encode only limited features.

The paper investigates the roles of two neuron types in the olfactory cortex and finds they process odor information in parallel rather than sequentially.

The paper shows that recurrent circuitry in piriform cortex stabilizes odor representations despite degraded input, supporting pattern completion in an associative network.

The paper shows that recurrent cortical circuits maintain odor identity coding despite concentration changes by suppressing concentration-dependent inputs.

The paper models how piriform cortex transforms temporal latency coding from the olfactory bulb into ensemble coding, showing robust odor representation across concentration changes.