Ramamurthy LabUniversity of California, Riverside

Mapping cellular and circuit
mechanisms of attention
in health and disease.

We are interested in the interplay between cognition and perception. We investigate how experience dynamically shapes neural representations across timescales to guide adaptive behavior.

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Balanced angular illustration of selected cortical inhibitory and feedforward circuit motifs. VIP inhibits SST neurons, which target pyramidal dendrites; NDNF inhibits PV neurons, which target the pyramidal perisomatic region. A lower excitatory neuron provides feedforward input to the pyramidal and PV neurons. Cell bodies are filled. Open circular terminals indicate inhibition and filled circular terminals indicate excitation. Each of the four interneurons has a distinct coordinated color. The background is transparent. This is a selection of connections, not a complete wiring diagram.