Caroline A. Runyan

The paper investigates how internal states affect decision-making by inactivating the posterior parietal cortex in mice and analyzing behavioral and neural changes.

The paper compares the spatial spread of excitatory neuron influence in sensory and association cortex, finding it wider in association cortex, suggesting differences in local network structure.

This study examines how somatostatin-expressing neurons respond to arousal in different cortical regions, finding distinct modulation patterns in auditory and posterior parietal cortex.

The paper develops a method to label and image multiple neuron types simultaneously in mouse cortex, revealing population-level interactions between parvalbumin, somatostatin, and pyramidal neurons.

The paper shows that neural correlations in association cortex enhance behavioral performance by improving information consistency, despite limiting sensory information.