Kathleen E. Cullen

A canonical input to the head direction compass carries predominantly eye movement signals

This study challenges the canonical view of the nucleus prepositus hypoglossi as an angular head velocity relay by showing its neurons predominantly encode eye movements rather than head motion.

SCREWx: A Screwless, Chronic, Recoverable, and Lightweight Neuropixels fixture for freely-moving rodents

The paper introduces a lightweight, screwless Neuropixels fixture for chronic recordings in freely moving rodents, enabling stable multi-probe implants and high extraction success.

Eye-head coordination during goal-directed orienting in mice

This study shows that mice use active eye-head coordination during goal-directed orienting, challenging the view that eye movements are purely reflexive.

Bat eye movements resolve a long-standing question in gaze control

This study quantifies eye movements in bats, showing robust visual and otolith-driven gaze stabilization, challenging the assumption that bats lack eye movement.

Acceleration and Velocity Dissociate Temporal Phases of Postural Control in Rhesus Macaques

This study dissociates angular acceleration and velocity in rhesus macaques to show they govern distinct phases of postural control, with acceleration driving short-latency responses and velocity shaping medium-latency adjustments.

CUSP: Complex Spike Sorting from Multi-electrode Array Recordings with U-net Sequence-to-Sequence Prediction

CUSP is a deep learning framework for automated detection of complex spikes in neural recordings, achieving expert-level performance and robustness to recording artifacts.

Striatal and cerebellar interactions during reward-based motor performance

This study investigates brain interactions during reward-based motor tasks, finding that ventral striatum and cerebellum show distinct activity and connectivity patterns based on task outcomes and individual preferences.

SLAy-ing oversplitting errors in high-density electrophysiology spike sorting

SLAy automatically merges oversplit spike units in electrophysiology data, improving efficiency and reproducibility compared to manual methods.

KV1.8 (Kcna10) potassium channels enhance fast, linear signaling in vestibular hair cells and facilitate vestibulomotor reflexes and balance

This study shows that KV1.8 potassium channels in vestibular hair cells enhance fast signaling and support balance and motor reflexes by improving response time, gain, and frequency range.

Complexes of vertebrate TMC1/2 and CIB2/3 proteins form hair-cell mechanotransduction cation channels

The paper shows that CIB2/3 and TMC1/2 form complexes essential for hair-cell mechanotransduction in vertebrates, supported by structural and functional analyses.

Contributions of mirror-image hair cell orientation to mouse otolith organ and zebrafish neuromast function

This study investigates the role of GPR156 in mouse and zebrafish sensory organs, showing it relays orientation and transduction information but not afferent selectivity for direction-specific stimuli.

Internal states as a source of subject-dependent movement variability and their representation by large-scale networks

The paper identifies two internal states that influence movement variability and shows they are encoded by large-scale brain networks in humans.

Distinct Representations of Body and Head motion are Dynamically Encoded by Purkinje cell Populations in the Macaque Cerebellum

The paper investigates how Purkinje cells in the macaque cerebellum encode body and head motion during self-motion, finding that most encode an intermediate representation combining vestibular and proprioceptive inputs.

Pulsatile electrical stimulation creates predictable, correctable disruptions in neural firing

This study uses computational modeling to explain how pulsatile electrical stimulation affects neural firing rates and shows that these effects can be predicted and corrected.

Cytochrome P450 26b1-mediated specification of vestibular striola and central zones is required for transient responses in linear acceleration

This study shows that Cyp26b1-mediated RA degradation during embryogenesis is essential for patterning vestibular zones, which are critical for transient responses to linear acceleration.