Anna Wang Roe

This study maps brain-wide activity during perceptual decisions in macaques, revealing spatially differentiated mesoscale networks that vary with task phase and sensory certainty.

The paper investigates how brain state affects the polarity of pulsed infrared neural stimulation responses in cortical neurons and develops a method to account for temperature-related fluorescence effects.

The paper introduces INS-fMRI, a method to map mesoscale brain connections in vivo in nonhuman primates without viral transfection, enabling whole-brain, rapid, and systematic network analysis.

This paper localizes the foveolar representation in anesthetized macaque visual cortex using a hierarchical fMRI strategy and identifies its anatomical boundaries.

This paper develops a surrogate-brain approach to optimize thalamic deep brain stimulation for cortical modulation using inferred effective connectivity and control theory.

The paper investigates how hippocampal subfields encode spatiotemporal information in marmosets, finding that CA3 integrates spatial and temporal signals for episodic memory.

The paper uses INS-fMRI to study mesoscale functional connectivity in the primate limbic system, revealing organized patterns linking cingulate, insula, and amygdala regions.

The paper uses infrared neural stimulation and fMRI to map mesoscale functional networks in the primate amygdala, revealing distinct connectivity patterns of its nuclei.

This paper establishes a theoretical framework linking neural response sparsity and variability to energy-efficient coding, showing they are intrinsically correlated and optimized for information encoding.

The paper introduces an optical interface for cortical columnar neuromodulation using infrared neural stimulation and demonstrates its effects on visual cortex responses in anesthetized cats.

The paper uses two-photon calcium imaging to study how infrared neural stimulation affects excitatory and inhibitory neurons in mouse somatosensory cortex.

This study introduces a self-evolving spiking neural network that forms pinwheel structures, showing improved visual coding efficiency and reliability through sparse coding and synaptic plasticity.

The paper uses 7T fMRI to map foveolar visual cortex in awake macaques, revealing multiple foveolar representations and a central foveolar core with specialized functions.

The paper quantifies spatial frequency maps in V2 and V4 of macaque monkeys and finds orthogonal relationships with orientation and color maps, supporting a generalized hypercolumn model.

This paper introduces a method for precise, depth-targeted photothrombosis in cerebral vessels using a 1070 nm ultrafast laser and evaluates its effectiveness for studying vascular function.

This study develops a precise photothrombosis method to investigate microvascular network dynamics and neurodegeneration effects in the cerebral cortex.

The paper identifies a curvature representation module in V4 of macaque monkeys, showing systematic low-to-high curvature and orientation organization, suggesting curvature hypercolumns.

The paper develops NIR-II fluorescence microscopy techniques to image cortical vasculature in non-human primates, enabling high-resolution analysis of brain microvascular networks and blood flow.