Daniel Barson

Aug 15, 2024 | science.org | Fabian Ripka |Naoyuki Matsumoto |Daniel Barson |Michael C. Crair

Editor’s summaryHow spontaneous activity sculpts fine-scale functional circuit connectivity before the onset of sensory experience is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Matsumoto et al. performed simultaneous imaging of retinal waves and spontaneous activity in neonatal mice while measuring morphological changes in retinal ganglion cell axons (see the Perspective by Somaiya and Feller).

Nov 30, 2023 | nature.com | Hadas Benisty |Daniel Barson |Michael C. Crair |Jessica A. Cardin |Gal Mishne

AbstractExperimental work across species has demonstrated that spontaneously generated behaviors are robustly coupled to variations in neural activity within the cerebral cortex. Functional magnetic resonance imaging data suggest that temporal correlations in cortical networks vary across distinct behavioral states, providing for the dynamic reorganization of patterned activity.