Lung-Hao Tai’s collaborative work with Bo Li lab recently published
Lung-Hao Tai's collaborative work with the Bo Li lab was recently published as: Marcus Stephenson-Jones, Kai Yu, Sandra Ahrens, Jason M. Tucciarone, Aile N. van Huijstee, Luis A. Mejia, Mario A. Penzo, Lung-Hao Tai, Linda Wilbrecht, Bo Li, A basal ganglia circuit for evaluating action outcomes, Nature, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19845 (2016).
Does puberty mark a transition in sensitive periods for plasticity in the associative neocortex?
Postnatal brain development is studded with sensitive periods during which experience dependent plasticity is enhanced. This enables rapid learning from environmental inputs and reorganization of cortical circuits that matches behavior with environmental contingencies. Significant headway has been achieved in characterizing and understanding sensitive period biology in primary sensory cortices, but
David Piekarski Receives New Investigator Award at SBN
David Piekarski was recently granted the New Investigator Award at the 2016 Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology (SBN) meeting in Montreal.
Gopnik on Maternal Separation
My colleague Professor Alison Gopnik discusses the Wilbrecht Lab's work in the Wall Street Journal this week. Gopnik's article covers two experiments from the Lab--our 2011 paper on juvenile mice and reversal learning, and our 2015 maternal separation and flexibility paper. Young Mice, Like Children, Can Grow Up Too Fast
News Coverage on Nature Comms Article
Christopher Bergland, How Does Your Brain Learn Through Trial and Error? Problem-solving and critical thinking can rewire the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), Psychology Today, Mar. 6, 2016. In a groundbreaking discovery, neurocientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have captured brain images of active learning in real-time by photographing the brains of
Long-range orbitofrontal and amygdala axons show divergent patterns of maturation in the frontal cortex across adolescence
The adolescent transition from juvenile to adult is marked by anatomical and functional remodeling of brain networks. Currently, the cellular and synaptic level changes underlying the adolescent transition are only coarsely understood. Here, we use two-photon imaging to make time-lapse observations of long-range axons that innervate the frontal cortex in