Conte Center members attending SfN
October 5-9, 2024 members of the Conte Center on the Thalamus attended and presented at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL. A total of thirteen abstracts across multiple projects were submitted and accepted to the poster session this year. Xiaoyi Liu, presenting ‘Endogenous attentional sampling under spatial uncertainty’, showcases the Center's goal for collaboration across Universities. Of note, is the poster presentation ('Rhythmic endogenous attention sampling under spatial uncertainty') by Emmy Shi, an undergrad from Emory University. Emmy completed the Center's first internship at Princeton University this summer, going on to present at SfN.
A list of presenters and their posters:
| KimcheeTran | Endogenous and exogenous influences on spatial attention |
| Kia Boroujeni | High-Frequency Burst Dynamics Support Attentional Information Routing in the Human Brain |
| Yujie Wu | A casual role for superior colliculus in spatial attention modulation in pulvino-cortical pathway |
| Emmy Shi | Rhythmic endogenous attention sampling under spatial uncertainty |
| Xiaoyi Liu | Endogenous attentional sampling under spatial uncertainty |
| Rober Boshra | Population spiking and field potentials in superior colliculus and frontal eye fields exhibit theta coordination during covert spatial attention |
| Mengxing Liu | Mediodorsal thalamic engagement and enhanced prefrontal functional connectivity during context switching in humans |
| Norman Lam/Arghya Mukherjee | Prefrontal transthalamic processing of uncertainty drives cognitive flexibility |
| Xingyu Liu | Functional coupling with cognitive control networks reveals shared and distinct organizational principles of pulvinar and mediodorsal nucleus. |
| Chiara Caldinelli | The role of the thalamus in dynamic decision-making |
| Ralf Wimmer | A Thalamocortical network readout for executive dysfunction in schizophrenia |
| Kees McGahan | Sleep and waking dynamics in a biophysical thalamocortical cell model |
| Xiaohan Zhang | Uncovering Computational Mechanisms of Cognitive Thalamocortical Circuits in Regulating Task Uncertainties |