Dan Feldman

Dan Feldman

@danfeldman.bsky.social

Neuroscientist at UC Berkeley, studying cortical circuits, coding, plasticity, and autism. www.feldmanlab.org

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Dan Feldman
@danfeldman.bsky.social

Congrats to Teresa Puthussery, who is a terrific circuit-systems neuroscientist at Berkeley, on receiving the MacArthur award!

Anna Vlasits@annaintegrated.bsky.social

So excited that a retina neurobiology colleague was awarded the MacArthur Genius Award! Congratulations Teresa Puthussery! news.berkeley.edu/2025/10/08/v...

news.berkeley.eduVision scientist Teresa Puthussery receives MacArthur ‘genius’ award - Berkeley NewsPuthussery’s discoveries about the retina are paving the way for new treatments for eye disease and vision loss
Dan Feldman
@danfeldman.bsky.social

New paper from Deepa Ramamurthy in my lab, just out. Mice flexibly shift attention between different whiskers based on the recent history of whisker stimuli and rewards, during a tactile detection task. We saw a strong neural correlate of this attentional capture in S1 cortex. rdcu.be/euij3

rdcu.beReward history guides focal attention in whisker somatosensory cortexNature Communications - Mice flexibly shift attention between specific whiskers on a rapid timescale based on recent stimulus reward history in a detection task. Attention is correlated with a...
Dan Feldman
@danfeldman.bsky.social

S1 pyramidal cells showed increased sensory gain and receptive field shifts toward the attended whisker. We used 2p imaging to measure the topography of the 'attentional spotlight'-- a Gaussian hill of sensory gain, 1.5 cortical columns in radius, that shifted as mice attended different whiskers.

Dan Feldman
@danfeldman.bsky.social

We study how neural circuits and coding are affected in mouse models of severe genetic forms of autism. New from Han Chin Wang in my lab. The Cntnap2 model of autism has a blurry, unstable whisker map. Adds to growing evidence for degraded neural coding in forms of ASD. #neuroskyence

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govDegraded tactile coding in the Cntnap2 mouse model of autism - PubMedAtypical sensory processing in autism involves altered neural circuit function and neural coding in sensory cortex, but the nature of coding disruption is poorly understood. We characterized neural co...

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