Deepa L. Ramamurthy

This study shows that enriched rearing environments enhance neural plasticity in the somatosensory cortex of early blind animals, leading to more adaptive behavioral and receptive field changes compared to standard rearing.

The paper shows that mice shift attention between whiskers based on recent reward history, with specific neural correlates in the somatosensory cortex.

The paper identifies that VIP interneurons in mouse whisker S1 are activated by both whisker stimuli and goal-directed licking during a Go/NoGo task.

This study investigates how early vision loss in opossums affects texture discrimination behavior, showing that early blind animals use tactile inputs more effectively than sighted controls.