Joy Putney

Cross-subject Mapping of Neural Activity with Restricted Boltzmann Machines

The paper develops a method to map neural activity across subjects using Restricted Boltzmann Machines, achieving high accuracy in decoding target features with a Fisher divergence-based training technique.

Flight power muscles have a coordinated, causal role in controlling hawkmoth pitch turns

The paper investigates how individual hawkmoth flight muscles contribute to pitch control by manipulating muscle timing, finding that single muscles do not produce precise turns, emphasizing coordination across the motor program.

An information theoretic method to resolve millisecond-scale spike timing precision in a comprehensive motor program

The paper introduces a method to estimate spike timing precision in motor circuits using continuous mutual information estimation and applies it to analyze motor output data from moths.

Consistent coordination patterns provide near perfect behavior decoding in a comprehensive motor program for insect flight

The paper decodes insect flight behaviors using spike-resolved motor patterns and shows that consistent coordination patterns allow near-perfect decoding across different behaviors.

Precise timing is ubiquitous, consistent, and coordinated across a comprehensive, spike-resolved flight motor program

The paper shows spike timing codes are ubiquitous, consistent, and essential for coordination across a hawk moth's flight motor program.