The modern study of animal camouflage has received renewed interest in the past two decades. Rapid adaptive camouflage is particularly interesting because it allows us …
Animal behavior is driven by perception of biological need and environmental context. Internal representations of the external world help us to interact with and navigate …
An important goal in neuroscience is to understand how experience affects the selection, execution and maintenance of different action plans, and how this is reflected …
This work presents several experiments designed to explore the use of spatial memory by echolocating big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) through observable flight behavior, specifically …
The exquisite morphology of neurons requires responses to stimuli in a spatially regulated manner. One means to achieve spatially-restricted control is through local translation, where …
Abstract of “Functional and Anatomical Pathways Supporting the Cognitive Control of Memory Retrieval” by Jennifer Barredo, Brown University, May 2014. Functions of the left ventrolateral …
For decades we have known that the medial temporal lobe (MTL), particularly the hippocampus, plays a critical role in the formation of episodic and spatial …
Auditory and visual information interact in the brain to produce a wide variety of behavioral and cognitive phenomena, however much is unknown about the mechanisms …
In this thesis, I explore how objects affect the space around them. I show that spatial information is extracted from even completely novel objects. Information …
The purpose of this thesis was to identify the cellular mechanisms of the ongoing cortical dynamics called “neuronal avalanches” (NA). NA are the hallmark of …
In this thesis, we identified and functionally characterized cis-regulatory enhancers in and around two Drosophila paralogs, nubbin (nub) and POU domain 2 (pdm-2) (collectively known …