Dora E. Angelaki

Intelligent systems distribute memory across internal and embodied resources

The paper shows that both primates and artificial agents use eye movements to support memory when internal computation is limited, revealing a shared principle of resource allocation between internal and embodied memory.

Rationalizing sensorimotor deficits in autism spectrum disorder

This study uses a virtual reality task and Inverse Rational Control to identify sensory and motor differences in ASD compared to neurotypical individuals.

Primate Gaze Behavior Reflects Change of Mind in a Naturalistic Navigation Task

This study shows that gaze behavior in primates reflects changes of mind during a navigation task, tracking latent variables and uncertainty.

Age-related changes in behavioural and neural variability in a decision-making task

This study examines age-related changes in neural and behavioural variability during a decision-making task in mice, finding increased neural variability and reduced variability quenching in specific brain regions.

Temporal Structure of Reward Availability and Sensory Uncertainty Modulate Allocation Dynamics in Naturalistic Foraging

This study shows that reward timing and sensory cue reliability influence how monkeys allocate foraging effort in a naturalistic task.

Active locomotion predictively rescues head direction attractor dynamics in head-fixed mice

This study shows that active locomotion predictsively rescues head direction attractor dynamics in head-fixed mice by stabilizing the network through prospective motor signals.

Belief embodiment through eye movements facilitates memory-guided navigation

The paper shows that eye movements during memory-guided navigation reflect internal beliefs and improve neural model explanations of behavior and neural data.

A Brain-Wide Map of Neural Activity during Complex Behaviour

The paper presents a brain-wide neural activity map from 621,733 neurons across 139 mice performing a decision-making task, showing how neural activity encodes task variables across brain regions.

A common computational and neural anomaly across mouse models of autism

The paper shows that mice with ASD-related mutations exhibit similar computational and neural anomalies in prior updating during decision-making.

Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex drives strategic aborting by optimizing long-run policy extraction

The paper shows macaques strategically abort rewards in a VR task to maximize long-term gains, with dlPFC activity reflecting this behavior.

Inductive biases of neural specialization in spatial navigation

This study shows that specialized neural modules improve learning and generalization in navigation tasks, resembling primate behavior and using a Kalman filter-like state representation.

Lightning Pose: improved animal pose estimation via semi-supervised learning, Bayesian ensembling, and cloud-native open-source tools

Causal inference during closed-loop navigation: parsing of self- and object-motion

The paper investigates causal inference during closed-loop navigation by examining how humans disambiguate self- and object-motion, showing misattribution patterns and their dependence on motion conditions and target location.

Context-invariant beliefs are supported by dynamic reconfiguration of single unit functional connectivity in prefrontal cortex

The paper shows that dynamic reconfiguration of functional connectivity in prefrontal cortex supports context-invariant beliefs during natural behavior.

Dynamical Latent State Computation in the Posterior Parietal Cortex

This study identifies how posterior parietal cortex encodes and dynamically tracks hidden states during navigation, supported by a neural network model.

Data architecture for a large-scale neuroscience collaboration

The paper describes a modular data architecture for a neuroscience collaboration, enabling data contribution, access, and analysis across multiple labs.

Coding of latent variables in sensory, parietal, and frontal cortices during virtual closed-loop navigation

The paper investigates how neural circuits in sensory, parietal, and frontal cortices encode latent variables during virtual navigation tasks in monkeys.

Sensory evidence accumulation using optic flow in a naturalistic navigation task

This study shows that humans and macaques rely on optic flow for decision-making in a naturalistic navigation task, demonstrating sensory evidence accumulation during action-perception loops.

A neural mechanism for detecting object motion during self-motion

The paper identifies a neural mechanism in macaque area MT that detects scene-relative object motion during self-motion by responding to incongruent depth tuning for motion parallax and binocular disparity cues.

Eye movements reveal spatiotemporal dynamics of visually-informed planning in navigation

This study examines how eye movements during navigation reflect spatiotemporal dynamics of visually-informed planning in complex environments.

Influence of sensory modality and control dynamics on human path integration

This study investigates how sensory modality and control dynamics affect human path integration in virtual reality, finding that vestibular signals alone are insufficient without sustained acceleration.

Spatial modulation of hippocampal activity in freely moving macaques

This study examines hippocampal activity in freely moving macaques, finding that spatial representations are dominated by head orientation and eye movements rather than place or grid coding.

Standardized and reproducible measurement of decision-making in mice

This paper develops a standardized task for measuring decision-making in mice, showing reproducible results across multiple laboratories and providing a public dataset and tools.

Aberrant Sensory Encoding in Patients with Autism

This study shows that individuals with ASD have reduced sensory encoding capacity and limited adaptability to changing visual stimuli compared to controls.

Two functionally distinct Purkinje cell populations implement an internal model within a single olivo-cerebellar loop

The paper shows two Purkinje cell populations in the cerebellum work together in a single olivo-cerebellar loop to implement an internal model of the otolith organs.

A cross-species neural integration of gravity for motor optimisation

The paper demonstrates that gravity is used to optimise motor patterns by reducing muscle effort in human and monkey arm movements.

Increased variability but intact integration during visual navigation in Autism Spectrum Disorder

This study investigates visual navigation in ASD using a computational task, finding increased variability but intact integration, with reduced variance through feedback.

A gravity-based three-dimensional compass in the mouse brain

This study identifies a three-dimensional gravity-based neural compass in the mouse brain that integrates pitch, roll, and azimuth orientation.

Multiplexed code of navigation variables in the anterior limbic system

The paper uses a multimodal model to analyze how neurons in specific brain regions of mice encode navigational variables during foraging, revealing new coding patterns in the anterior thalamus and retrosplenial cortex.

Simple spike dynamics of Purkinje cells in the macaque vestibulo-cerebellum reflect sensory prediction error

The paper examines Purkinje cell dynamics in the macaque vestibulo-cerebellum, finding that two cell types encode tilt velocity and translation acceleration, which represent sensory prediction error for updating sensory estimates.