Great work on category learning in mice, looking for category-selective neurons in mPFC. In particular, I liked Fig. 4, in which the authors experimentally disambiguate truly category-selective neurons from those related to things that co-vary with categories (such as reward).👏

Finally, building the bridge between morphology and function. Light-sheet responses of the inferior olive neurons and their terminals in the cerebellum, when overlaid with morphological maps, show a nice correspondence! Check these beautiful maps by @daniobrain.

Do these cells receive monocular or binocular inputs? To answer this, @ritallfelix showed stimuli to left and right eyes separately. Turns out, most (not all) of the cells are binocular, and sometimes have opposing preferred directions, which makes them perfect rotation detectors

This directional selectivity in the inferior olive is spatially organized. For example, cells that prefer forward motion (green) tend to be located rostrally.

We then recorded activity of the inferior olive neurons in response to translational and rotational whole-field motion at different directions. These cells responded nicely to these stimuli and were quite direction-selective. This was a really great time in Lisbon.

This was the first year of my PhD. I was sitting at a confocal and electroporating inferior olive neurons @PortuguesLab. There were at least two distinct types of neurons that differ in dendritic morphology, location within the olive and projection patterns.

Interested in morphology and activity of the inferior olive neurons in larval zebrafish? Check out the recent results of a wonderful collaboration led by @ritallfelix and me supervised by @daniobrain, @PortuguesLab & @meganinlisbon. https://t.co/GTgUUpRQFF

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