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2025
 
      
    
    
      
      
      
        The Computational Bottleneck of Basal Ganglia Output (and What to Do About it)
      
      
      
  
        eneuro
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        01 Apr 2025
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        doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0431-23.2024
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
    2024
 
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Motor Cortex Latent Dynamics Encode Spatial and Temporal Arm Movement Parameters Independently
      
      
      
  
        The Journal of Neuroscience
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        26 Jul 2024
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        doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1777-23.2024
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
     
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Tracking subjects’ strategies in behavioural choice experiments at trial resolution
      
      
      
  
        eLife
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        01 Mar 2024
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        doi:10.7554/eLife.86491
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
    2022
 
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Activity Subspaces in Medial Prefrontal Cortex Distinguish States of the World
      
      
      
  
        The Journal of Neuroscience
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        14 Apr 2022
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        doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1412-21.2022
      
      
        
        
        
          
  
        
      
    2021
 
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Bayesian Mapping of the Striatal Microcircuit Reveals Robust Asymmetries in the Probabilities and Distances of Connections
      
      
      
  
        The Journal of Neuroscience
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        10 Dec 2021
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        doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1487-21.2021
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Making decisions in the dark basement of the brain: A look back at the GPR model of action selection and the basal ganglia
      
      
      
  
        Biological Cybernetics
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        17 Jul 2021
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        doi:10.1007/s00422-021-00887-5
      
      
        
        
        
      
     
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Spectral estimation for detecting low-dimensional structure in networks using arbitrary null models
      
      
      
  
        PLOS ONE
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        02 Jul 2021
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        doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0254057
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
     
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Strong and weak principles of neural dimension reduction
      
      
      
  
        Neurons, Behavior, Data analysis, and Theory
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        17 Jun 2021
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        doi:10.51628/001c.24619
      
      
        
        
        
          
  
        
      
     
      
    
    
      
      
      
        The spike: an epic journey through the brain in 2.1 seconds
      
      
      
  
        Princeton University Press
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        01 Jan 2021
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        isbn:9780691195889
      
      
        
        
        
          
  
        
      
    2019
      
      
      
        On the use of calcium deconvolution algorithms in practical contexts
      
      
      
  
        Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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        11 Dec 2019
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        doi:10.1101/871137
      
      
        
        
        
      
     
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Maladaptive striatal plasticity and abnormal reward‐learning in cervical dystonia
      
      
      
  
        European Journal of Neuroscience
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        14 May 2019
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        doi:10.1111/ejn.14414
      
      
        
        
        
          
  
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Prediction of Choice from Competing Mechanosensory and Choice-Memory Cues during Active Tactile Decision Making
      
      
      
  
        The Journal of Neuroscience
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        08 Mar 2019
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        doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2217-18.2019
      
      
        
        
        
      
     
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Medial prefrontal cortex population activity is plastic irrespective of learning
      
      
      
  
        The Journal of Neuroscience
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        27 Feb 2019
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        doi:10.1523/jneurosci.1370-17.2019
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
    2018
 
      
    
    
      
      
      
        An ensemble code in medial prefrontal cortex links prior events to outcomes during learning
      
      
      
  
        Nature Communications
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        07 Jun 2018
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        doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04638-2
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
     
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Insights into Parkinson’s disease from computational models of the basal ganglia
      
      
      
  
        Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
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        17 Apr 2018
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        doi:10.1136/jnnp-2017-315922
      
      
        
        
        
          
  
        
      
    
      
      
      
        A probabilistic, distributed, recursive mechanism for decision-making in the brain
      
      
      
  
        PLOS Computational Biology
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        03 Apr 2018
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        doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006033
      
      
        
        
        
          
  
        
      
    2017
 
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Dynamical networks: Finding, measuring, and tracking neural population activity using network science
      
      
      
  
        Network Neuroscience
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        01 Dec 2017
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        doi:10.1162/NETN_a_00020
      
      
        
        
        
          
  
        
      
     
      
    
    
      
      
      
        A spiral attractor network drives rhythmic locomotion
      
      
      
  
        eLife
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        07 Aug 2017
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        doi:10.7554/eLife.27342
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
    2016
      
      
      
        The Goldilocks zone in neural circuits
      
      
      
  
        eLife
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        02 Dec 2016
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        doi:10.7554/eLife.22735
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2015
 
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Modular Deconstruction Reveals the Dynamical and Physical Building Blocks of a Locomotion Motor Program
      
      
      
  
        Neuron
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        01 Apr 2015
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        doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2015.03.005
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
     
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Finding communities in sparse networks
      
      
      
  
        Scientific Reports
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        06 Mar 2015
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        doi:10.1038/srep08828
      
      
        
        
        
          
  
        
      
    
      
      
      
        A New Framework for Cortico-Striatal Plasticity: Behavioural Theory Meets In Vitro Data at the Reinforcement-Action Interface
      
      
      
  
        PLoS Biology
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        06 Jan 2015
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        doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1002034
      
      
        
        
        
          
  
        
      
    2014
      
      
      
        Early hypersynchrony in juvenile PINK1(-)/(-) motor cortex is rescued by antidromic stimulation.
      
      
      
  
        Frontiers in systems neuroscience
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        21 May 2014
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        pmid:24904316
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Striatal disorders dissociate mechanisms of enhanced and impaired response selection - Evidence from cognitive neurophysiology and computational modelling.
      
      
      
  
        NeuroImage. Clinical
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        12 Apr 2014
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        pmid:24936413
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Slaves to the rhythm: coupling of the subthalamic nucleus-globus pallidus network in Parkinsonian oscillations.
      
      
      
  
        The Journal of physiology
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        01 Apr 2014
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        pmid:24692460
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Transient and steady-state selection in the striatal microcircuit.
      
      
      
  
        Frontiers in computational neuroscience
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        20 Jan 2014
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        pmid:24478684
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2013
 
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Population-wide distributions of neural activity during perceptual decision-making
      
      
      
  
        Progress in Neurobiology
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        01 Apr 2013
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        doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2012.09.004
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Passive Dendrites Enable Single Neurons to Compute Linearly Non-separable Functions
      
      
      
  
        PLoS Computational Biology
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        28 Feb 2013
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        doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002867
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2012
      
      
      
        Network effects of subthalamic deep brain stimulation drive a unique mixture of responses in basal ganglia output
      
      
      
  
        European Journal of Neuroscience
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        01 Jul 2012
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        doi:10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08085.x
      
      
        
        
        
      
     
      
    
    
      
      
      
        Dopaminergic Control of the Exploration-Exploitation Trade-Off via the Basal Ganglia.
      
      
      
  
        Frontiers in neuroscience
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        06 Feb 2012
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        pmid:22347155
      
      
        
        
        
          
  
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Integrating cortico-limbic-basal ganglia architectures for learning model-based and model-free navigation strategies
      
      
      
  
        Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
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        01 Jan 2012
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        doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2012.00079
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2011
 
      
    
    
      
      
      
        The medial reticular formation: a brainstem substrate for simple action selection?
      
      
      
  
        Modelling Natural Action Selection
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        10 Nov 2011
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        doi:10.1017/CBO9780511731525.018
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Spike-Train Communities: Finding Groups of Similar Spike Trains
      
      
      
  
        The Journal of Neuroscience
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        09 Feb 2011
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        doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2853-10.2011
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Onset of pup locomotion coincides with loss of NR2C/D-mediated cortico-striatal EPSCs and dampening of striatal network immature activity
      
      
      
  
        Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
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        01 Jan 2011
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        doi:10.3389/fncel.2011.00024
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2010
      
      
      
        Reconstructing the Three-Dimensional GABAergic Microcircuit of the Striatum
      
      
      
  
        PLoS Computational Biology
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        24 Nov 2010
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        doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1001011
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        The ventral basal ganglia, a selection mechanism at the crossroads of space, strategy, and reward.
      
      
      
  
        Progress in Neurobiology
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        01 Apr 2010
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        doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2009.11.003
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2009
      
      
      
        Dopamine-modulated dynamic cell assemblies generated by the GABAergic striatal microcircuit
      
      
      
  
        Neural Networks
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        01 Oct 2009
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        doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2009.07.018
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Technical integration of hippocampus, basal ganglia and physical models for spatial navigation
      
      
      
  
        Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
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        01 Jan 2009
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        doi:10.3389/neuro.11.006.2009
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Capturing dopaminergic modulation and bimodal membrane behaviour of striatal medium spiny neurons in accurate, reduced models
      
      
      
  
        Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
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        01 Jan 2009
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        doi:10.3389/neuro.10.026.2009
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2008
      
      
      
        Network ‘Small-World-Ness’: A Quantitative Method for Determining Canonical Network Equivalence
      
      
      
  
        PLoS ONE
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        30 Apr 2008
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        doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002051
      
      
        
        
          
        
        
          
  
        
      
    2007
      
      
      
        Solution Methods for a New Class of Simple Model Neurons
      
      
      
  
        Neural Computation
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        01 Dec 2007
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        doi:10.1162/neco.2007.19.12.3216
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        Is there a brainstem substrate for action selection?
      
      
      
  
        Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
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        29 Sep 2007
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        pmid:17428776
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2006
      
      
      
        A Physiologically Plausible Model of Action Selection and Oscillatory Activity in the Basal Ganglia
      
      
      
  
        The Journal of Neuroscience
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        13 Dec 2006
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        doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3486-06.2006
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        The brainstem reticular formation is a small-world, not scale-free, network.
      
      
      
  
        Proceedings. Biological sciences
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        22 Feb 2006
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        pmid:16615219
      
      
        
        
        
      
    
      
      
      
        A robot model of the basal ganglia: Behavior and intrinsic processing
      
      
      
  
        Neural Networks
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        01 Jan 2006
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        doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2005.06.049
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2002
      
      
      
        The role of intra-thalamic and thalamocortical circuits in action selection
      
      
      
  
        Network: Computation in Neural Systems
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        01 Jan 2002
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        doi:10.1088/0954-898X/13/1/305
      
      
        
        
        
      
    2001
      
      
      
        A pulsed neural network model of bursting in the basal ganglia
      
      
      
  
        Neural Networks
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        01 Jul 2001
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        doi:10.1016/S0893-6080(01)00060-0