Nikola T. Markov

The paper proposes the Decoherence via Demyelination Hypothesis (DDH) to explain age-related cognitive decline through tract-specific myelin loss and its impact on neural network coordination.

This study shows that the brain uses shared neural subspaces to flexibly perform and combine multiple tasks by reusing representations across different task-related information.

This study investigates how the brain learns and uses attentional templates in decision-making tasks, showing that templates are represented in prefrontal and parietal cortex and transform stimuli into value representations.

This study examines how congenital blindness in macaques affects sub-cortical circuits, revealing changes in cortical projections from the lateral geniculate nucleus and increased projections from the pulvinar complex.

The paper investigates cortical connectivity changes in a macaque model of congenital blindness, showing a reorganization of the visual cortex into a default extrastriate cortex with altered connectivity patterns.