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Brent Doiron

Professor of Neurobiology and Statistics, University of Chicago
Verified email at uchicago.edu
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Large-scale neural recordings call for new insights to link brain and behavior

AE Urai, B Doiron, AM Leifer, AK Churchland - Nature neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
… . b, Neural computations can be evident in population dynamics but hidden at the level of
single-neuron firing rates. Colors show neural responses in motor cortex during cycling at …

The mechanics of state-dependent neural correlations

B Doiron, A Litwin-Kumar, R Rosenbaum… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
… We model the shift from state A to state B as an increase in a static external drive to the … B,
that is ρ B /ρ A > 1, whereas the presynaptic correlation modulation leads to decrease, ρ B /ρ A …

Integrating Hebbian and homeostatic plasticity: the current state of the field and future research directions

…, T Toyoizumi, L Chen, B Doiron… - … Royal Society B …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We summarize here the results presented and subsequent discussion from the meeting on
Integrating Hebbian and Homeostatic Plasticity at the Royal Society in April 2016. We first …

Correlation between neural spike trains increases with firing rate

J De La Rocha, B Doiron, E Shea-Brown, K Josić… - Nature, 2007 - nature.com
… values of μ in b. The threshold (white lines) partitions the input plane (I 1 ,I 2 ) into four
quadrants. P(I 1 ,I 2 ) is transformed differently in each quadrant (middle column). In b–d we set σ = …

Slow dynamics and high variability in balanced cortical networks with clustered connections

A Litwin-Kumar, B Doiron - Nature neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
… (b) Visualization of connectivity for a subpopulation of 240 excitatory neurons in three
clusters. Nodes correspond to excitatory neurons; edges, synaptic connections. Nodes are …

[HTML][HTML] Formation and maintenance of neuronal assemblies through synaptic plasticity

A Litwin-Kumar, B Doiron - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
… (b) Average excitatory firing rate as a function of time. (c) Excitatory neuron spike rasters
before training and after 200 s of training. After ~200 s, the network dynamics settle into high-…

The spatial structure of correlated neuronal variability

…, MA Smith, A Kohn, JE Rubin, B Doiron - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
… where t n b,k is the nth spike time of neuron k in population b = e, i. The scaling of synaptic
weights is a defining feature of the balanced network formalism and captures the balance …

Parallel processing of sensory input by bursts and isolated spikes

AMM Oswald, MJ Chacron, B Doiron… - Journal of …, 2004 - Soc Neuroscience
… The preparation and surgical techniques for recording from Apteronotus leptorhynchus have
been described previously (Bastian, 1996a,b) and were in accordance with the University of …

Theory of oscillatory firing induced by spatially correlated noise and delayed inhibitory feedback

B Lindner, B Doiron, A Longtin - Physical Review E, 2005 - APS
… III B; in this section we also state the analytical results for a single leaky integrate-and-fire
neuron Sec. III C that enable us to give explicit expressions for the spectral measures. …

Role of AMP-activated protein kinase in the regulation by glucose of islet beta cell gene expression

…, I Leclerc, IP Salt, B Doiron… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
Elevated glucose concentrations stimulate the transcription of the pre-proinsulin (PPI), L-type
pyruvate kinase (L-PK), and other genes in islet beta cells. In liver cells, pharmacological …