Bence P. Ölveczky

This paper introduces a 3D tracking technique to analyze social behavior in rodents, revealing new insights into autism and amphetamine effects through high-resolution postural data.

This study shows that the sensorimotor striatum is not essential for species-typical behaviors but plays a role in shaping skilled behaviors through distinct coding schemes.

This study shows motor cortex is needed for flexible, cue-driven motor sequences but not for automatic sequences, and this dependency changes when sequences are practiced together.

This study investigates how the sensorimotor striatum contributes to automatic and visually-guided motor sequences in rats, finding that it is essential for automatic skills but not sensory-guided sequences.

This study records single neuron activity in motor cortex and striatum over weeks in rats performing motor behaviors, finding long-term stability in activity patterns despite minor drift.

This study shows that the basal ganglia, specifically the striatum, control learned motor sequences independently of the motor cortex in rats.

This paper introduces a time warping framework to uncover precise spike-time patterns in neural recordings across different systems, revealing both expected and unexpected firing dynamics.

This study investigates the roles of motor cortical and thalamic inputs to the striatum during motor learning and execution in rats, finding that cortical input is critical for learning but not execution, while thalamic input is essential for maintaining learned behavior.

The paper investigates how neural networks can implement flexible motor timing in birdsong and finds that feedforward networks better support this flexibility than randomly connected recurrent networks.