Paul Szyszka

This study shows dogs can detect very short differences in odorant arrival times, distinguishing between synchronous and asynchronous odorant mixtures under natural sampling conditions.

This study shows that reducing NeuroD2 activity in Xenopus laevis tadpoles causes seizure-like behavior, neuronal hyperactivity, and a leaky blood-brain barrier, supporting a haploinsufficiency model for DEE75.

The paper investigates how ephaptic coupling between olfactory receptor neurons in fruit flies responds to the timing of odorant arrival, showing that asynchronous odorant arrival reduces ephaptic inhibition, supporting its role in odor source discrimination.

This study characterizes and automatically quantifies seizure-related behaviors in Xenopus laevis tadpoles using chemical induction and video analysis software.

This study shows that overexpression of two gain-of-function CYFIP2 variants in Xenopus laevis tadpoles causes spontaneous seizures, with one variant responding to valproate treatment.

The paper investigates the evolutionary loss of olfactory processing speed in flightless insects and finds that flight loss is associated with degraded olfactory acuity and speed.

The paper identifies an alpha-like oscillation in honey bees that influences spike timing and gamma activity, suggesting a conserved role of oscillations in cognition across species.

This study shows honey bees can use stimulus onset asynchrony to segregate unknown odorants from background odors, requiring a larger asynchrony than for known odors.

This study develops an automated assay to investigate how group size affects social interactions and odor-food memory in Drosophila melanogaster, finding that both attraction and memory duration increase with group size.