Kacper Kondrakiewicz

The paper shows that dopamine neurons are activated by orienting behaviors, not novelty itself, and identifies the mediodorsal pons as a key input source for this activation.

This study investigates how the anterior olfactory nucleus (AON) and anterior piriform cortex (aPCx) contribute to novelty-evoked exploration in mice, finding that AON mediates immediate reactions to novel odors while aPCx supports stable odor memory.

The paper shows that local thalamic LFP can be reliably recovered using kCSD, even without concurrent cortical recordings, by removing a negative component from cortex.

The paper analyzes what information about brain current sources can be recovered or remains unobservable using extracellular multielectrode recordings, across different experimental setups.

The paper shows that social signals convey explicit information about danger proximity, and the central amygdala circuits mediate context-appropriate defensive reactions.