Carl Edward Schoonover

The representational geometry of emotional states in basolateral amygdala

The paper investigates how the basolateral amygdala encodes emotional states through representational geometry, finding that valence and motor responses are encoded in orthogonal directions enabling specialized readouts.

Experience-dependent reorganization of inhibitory neuron synaptic connectivity

The paper shows that experience reorganizes inhibitory neuron connectivity in the mouse olfactory cortex, increasing network response dimensionality and discriminability of familiar stimuli.

Sensory experience steers representational drift in mouse visual cortex

This study shows that sensory experience influences the direction of representational drift in mouse visual cortex, while synaptic volatility affects its magnitude.

Representational drift in primary olfactory cortex

This study shows that odor representations in the mouse piriform cortex drift over time, reducing classifier performance, and that continuous odor exposure slows but does not eliminate this drift.

A naturalistic assay for measuring behavioral responses to aversive stimuli at millisecond timescale

The paper introduces a Virtual Burrow Assay to measure mice's millisecond-scale behavioral responses to aversive stimuli without training.