Michael Robert DeWeese

The paper investigates how population gating in the auditory cortex supports stimulus selection through interactions with the medial prefrontal cortex in a task-dependent manner.

This paper trains sparse coding models to study how receptive fields in V1 develop, finding lower spatial frequency RFs emerge earlier than higher frequency ones.

The paper shows that heterogeneous synaptic weights can improve neural coding in the presence of common noise by enhancing Fisher and Shannon information, even when amplifying noise.

The paper shows that a grid cell continuous attractor network naturally produces theta sequences and replay through modulating external input and inhibitory interneuron activity.

The paper investigates whether retinal spatial whitening is necessary for V1 to achieve sparse coding of natural scenes using biologically plausible learning rules.

The paper identifies task-relevant information in nominally non-responsive neurons using a spike-timing-based algorithm in behaving rats.