Lydia Ntanavara

This study shows mice use active sensing strategies to resolve visual uncertainty in a virtual reality task, selecting informative views based on visual information availability.

EthoPy simplifies reproducible behavioral neuroscience by automating training workflows and integrating stimulus presentation, hardware management, and data logging.

Functionally similar neurons in mouse visual cortex connect preferentially across layers and areas, including feedback, and feature tuning, not receptive-field position, predicts synapses beyond axon-dendrite proximity.

The paper uses CNNs to analyze contextual modulation in visual cortex by synthesizing surround patterns, finding that pattern completion enhances responses while disruption suppresses them, consistent across mice and macaques.