Charles R. Heller

This study investigates the role of usherin in zebrafish sleep regulation, finding altered sleep-wake behavior in ush2a mutants despite normal circadian rhythms and melatonin release.

The paper shows that task engagement leads to categorical sound representations in non-primary auditory cortex, while primary auditory cortex shows general sound decoding enhancement.

This study identifies two distinct quiescent sleep states in larval zebrafish, qREM and qNREM, and challenges the scanning hypothesis for REM sleep origin.

This paper introduces a simple and interpretable dimensionality reduction method for neural population decoding, demonstrating its reliability with limited experimental trials.

The paper isolates task engagement and arousal effects in auditory cortex and midbrain using single-unit recordings and generalized linear modeling, finding distinct neural population responses to each.

The paper investigates how arousal affects neural coding of natural sounds in auditory cortex by analyzing changes in response magnitude and noise correlations.