Brian A. Fabella

Rocking Without a Tune: Ex vivo and in vivo Responses to Sound in the Basilar Papilla of the Tokay Gecko

This study examines sound-evoked mechanical responses in the tokay gecko's basilar papilla, finding untuned rotational motion and proposing anatomical asymmetry as a mechanism for auditory tuning.

Genetic mapping identifies Homer1 as a developmental modifier of attention

This study identifies Homer1 as a gene that modulates attention by altering prefrontal cortex inhibitory tone and signal-to-noise ratio in mice.

Optogenetic interrogation of the lateral-line sensory system reveals mechanisms of pattern separation in the zebrafish brain

The paper uses optogenetic stimulation and calcium imaging in zebrafish to study how sensory inputs from neuromasts are processed in the brain, revealing nonlinear integration and sparse neuronal representations.