Had a great time visiting UC Berkeley, talking to incredible scientists, and sharing my research. @AdesnikHillel @DanFeldmanPhD @FellerMarla

However, when both stimuli were associated with the same reward, the sensory maps in midbrain and cortex were nearly identical in shape. Therefore, the act of selecting one stimulus while ignoring the other shaped sensory space in midbrain but not the cortex.

Surprisingly, midbrain neurons were strongly biased towards the positive stimulus.

Our brain has two sides, yet how neurons bind stimulus features across the hemispheres to create a unified perceptual experience remains unknown. Check out our preprint, where we reveal the state-dependent logic underlying bilateral integration in S1. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… 🐭🧠

Maybe not the quietest, but it's recent.

The Columbia river gorge is much better than I expected. Why did no one tell me before?!

An often overlooked question is how sensory information across the cerebral hemispheres is combined to generate a bilateral percept. We are tackling this problem with a novel task that requires mice to discriminate matching from non-matching spatial cues. See it in slow-motion:🐭

Nice view from the photonics building at @SLBconference

Winter has finally arrived in Indiana. We got ice rolling down the #MightyWabash