Yoshio Sakurai

This paper introduces a novel behavioral task for flavor discrimination in mice, showing that intraoral flavor, not olfactory input, is critical for task performance.

The paper examines how nLOT neurons encode odor signals and behavioral states in mice during odor-guided tasks, finding bi-directional cue encoding and context-based odor-outcome associations.

The paper examines how perirhinal cortical neurons encode different choice directions across task epochs and identifies neural subspaces that reflect coordinated patterns.

The paper identifies a novel GABAergic neuron population in the olfactory cortex of mice that project to the lateral hypothalamus and integrate olfactory and top-down inputs.