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Pierre-Olivier Polack

@polacklab.bsky.social
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Neuroscientist. Associate Professor at Rutgers University, Newark. Interested in the neuronal mechanisms of visual perception (in mice…). Electrophysiologist doing functional imaging, sailor & cellist.

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Julien Corbo @juliencorbo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
New paper out! 🚨 📰 With @batuhanerkat.bsky.social, John McClure, @hussainyk1.bsky.social, @polacklab.bsky.social we reveal how discretized representations in V1 predict suboptimal orientation discrimination. 🧪🧠🐭 This work reconciles neuro and psychometric curves www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Discretized representations in V1 predict suboptimal orientation discrimination - Nature Communications
How animals generate perceptual decisions remains poorly understood. Here, the authors show that during a discrimination task, the mouse visual cortex does not encode the orientations of the cues but ...
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