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Temporal concentration and phase synchronization in phase-amplitude coupling Open

Marjan Nosouhi, Stefan Treue, Moein Esghaei · 2025

Advancing preference testing in humans and animals Open

Dana Pfefferle, Steven R. Talbot, Pia Kahnau, Lauren C. Cassidy, Ralf R. Brockhausen , et al. · 2025

Preference tests help to determine how highly individuals value different options to choose from. During preference testing, two or more options are presented simultaneously, and options are ranked based on the choices made. Presented opti…

Dyadic Interaction Platform: A novel tool to study transparent social interactions Open

Sebastian Isbaner, Raymundo Báez-Mendoza, Ricarda Bothe, Anna Fischer, Alexander Gail , et al. · 2025

Studies of social cognition examine how organisms process and act on the presence, intentions, actions, and behavioural outcomes of others in social contexts. Many real-life social interactions unfold during direct face-to-face contact and…

Computer vision for primate behavior analysis in the wild Open

Richard Vogg, Timo Lüddecke, Jonathan Henrich, Sharmita Dey, Matthias Nuske , et al. · 2025

Advances in computer vision and increasingly widespread video-based behavioral monitoring are currently transforming how we study animal behavior. However, there is still a gap between the prospects and practical application, especially in…

Bilateral Field Advantage of Spatial Attention in Macaque Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Open

Maryam Nouri Kadijani, Theda Backen, Kaustubh Manchanda, Sandeep K. Mody, Stefan Treue , et al. · 2025

Allocating visual attention to behaviorally relevant stimuli is easier when distractors are in the opposite visual hemifield relative to when they are in the same hemifield. The neural mechanisms underlying this bilateral field advantage r…

Spike frequency adaptation in primate lateral prefrontal cortex neurons results from interplay between intrinsic properties and circuit dynamics Open

Nils A. Koch, Benjamin Corrigan, Michael Feyerabend, Roberto A. Gulli, Michelle Stephanie Jimenez-Sosa , et al. · 2025

Cortical neurons in brain slices display intrinsic spike frequency adaptation (I-SFA) to constant current inputs, while extracellular recordings show extrinsic SFA (E-SFA) during sustained visual stimulation. Inferring how I-SFA contribute…

Single neuron diversity supports area functional specialization along the visual cortical pathways Open

Michael Feyerabend, Stefan Pommer, MS Jimenez-Sosa, Jenifer Rachel, Julia K. Sunstrum , et al. · 2024

Humans and other primates have specialized visual pathways composed of interconnected cortical areas. The input area V1 contains neurons that encode basic visual features, whereas downstream in the lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) neurons …

Interactions between the fovea and the periphery shape misbinding of visual features in a continuous report paradigm Open

Max Arwed Crayen, Stefan Treue, Moein Esghaei · 2024

Coupled oscillations orchestrate selective information transmission in visual cortex Open

Mohammad Bagher Khamechian, Mohammad Reza Daliri, Stefan Treue, Moein Esghaei · 2024

Performing visually guided behavior involves flexible routing of sensory information towards associative areas. We hypothesize that in visual cortical areas, this routing is shaped by a gating influence of the local neuronal population on …

Dissecting attention: Rate modulation vs. phase locking Open

Moein Esghaei, Julio Martínez-Trujillo, Stefan Treue · 2024

In this issue of Neuron, Spyropoulos et al.¹ report direct top-down modulation of neuronal firing rates underlying selective visual attentional modulation.

Choice-based severity scale (CSS): assessing the relative severity of procedures from a laboratory animal’s perspective Open

Lauren C. Cassidy, Stefan Treue, Alexander Gail, Dana Pfefferle · 2024

One primary goal of laboratory animal welfare science is to provide a comprehensive severity assessment of the experimental and husbandry procedures or conditions these animals experience. The severity, or degree of suffering, of these con…

Bilateral field advantage of spatial attention in macaque lateral prefrontal cortex Open

Maryam Nouri Kadijani, Theda Backen, Kaustubh Machanda, Sandeep K. Mody, Stefan Treue , et al. · 2024

Allocating visual attention to behaviorally relevant stimuli is easier when distractors are located in the opposite visual hemifield relative to when they are in the same hemifield. The neural mechanisms underlying this bilateral field adv…

Publisher Correction: Orchestration of saccadic eye-movements by brain rhythms in macaque Frontal Eye Field Open

Yeganeh Shaverdi, Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan, Stefan Treue, Moein Esghaei · 2024

Computer Vision for Primate Behavior Analysis in the Wild Open

Richard Vogg, Timo Lüddecke, Jonathan Henrich, Sharmita Dey, Matthias Nuske , et al. · 2024

Advances in computer vision as well as increasingly widespread video-based behavioral monitoring have great potential for transforming how we study animal cognition and behavior. However, there is still a fairly large gap between the excit…

Pathway-selective optogenetics reveals the functional anatomy of top–down attentional modulation in the macaque visual cortex Open

Janina Hüer, Pankhuri Saxena, Stefan Treue · 2024

Spatial attention represents a powerful top–down influence on sensory responses in primate visual cortical areas. The frontal eye field (FEF) has emerged as a key candidate area for the source of this modulation. However, it is unclear whe…

Public controversy and citizens’ attitude formation about animal research: A case for scholarship and recommendations on conflicts at the science-society interface Open

Elena Link, Katharina Emde-Lachmund, Sophie Bruns, Anja Dittrich, Meike Stiesch , et al. · 2024

Activist groups attack animal research and put scientists and their institutions under pressure, whereas scientists often remain silent. We report an interdisciplinary research project driven by a communication science perspective on how c…

Behavioral relevance of category selectivity revealed by human ECoG data Open

Seyedamin Hashemi, Seyed Ali Ebadi, Fatemeh Zareayan Jahromy, Stefan Treue, Gabriel Kreiman , et al. · 2023

Object recognition is a crucial brain function that involves a complex interplay between various brain regions. However, the behavioral relevance of functional interactions between these regions remains largely unexplored. In this study, w…

Phase of neural oscillations as a reference frame for attention-based routing in visual cortex Open

Ehsan Aboutorabi, Sonia Baloni Ray, Daniel Kaping, Farhad Shahbazi, Stefan Treue , et al. · 2023

Selective attention allows the brain to efficiently process the image projected onto the retina, selectively focusing neural processing resources on behaviorally relevant visual information. While previous studies have documented the cruci…

Orchestration of saccadic eye-movements by brain rhythms in macaque Frontal Eye Field Open

Yeganeh Shaverdi, Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan, Stefan Treue, Moein Esghaei · 2023

Visual perception has been suggested to operate on temporal ‘chunks’ of sensory input, rather than on a continuous stream of visual information. Saccadic eye movements impose a natural rhythm on the sensory input, as periods of steady fixa…

Effect of attention on human direction-discrimination thresholds at iso-eccentric locations in the visual field: A registered report protocol Open

Pankhuri Saxena, Stefan Treue · 2023

Human visual perceptual performance is strongly dependent on a given stimulus’ distance from the line of sight, i.e. its eccentricity. In addition, multiple studies have shown a dependence on a stimulus’ angular position relative to the fo…

A Touchscreen-Based, Multiple-Choice Approach to Cognitive Enrichment of Captive Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta) Open

Antonino Calapai, Dana Pfefferle, Lauren C. Cassidy, Anahita Nazari, Pinar Yurt , et al. · 2023

Research on the psychological and physiological well-being of captive animals has focused on investigating different types of social and structural enrichment. Consequently, cognitive enrichment has been understudied, despite the promising…

Rhythmic entrainment of saccadic eye-movements in macaque FEF Open

Yeganeh Shaverdi, Seyed Kamaledin Setarehdan, Stefan Treue, Moein Esghaei · 2023

Saccadic eye movements play a key role in gaining information about the surrounding environment. However, the neural mechanisms underlying the timing of these eye movements remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated the entrainment of…

Human and macaque pairs employ different coordination strategies in a transparent decision game Open

Sebastian Moeller, Anton M. Unakafov, Julia Fischer, Alexander Gail, Stefan Treue , et al. · 2023

Many real-world decisions in social contexts are made while observing a partner’s actions. To study dynamic interactions during such decisions, we developed a setup where two agents seated face-to-face to engage in game-theoretical tasks o…

Phase of neural oscillations as a reference frame for attention-based routing in visual cortex Open

Ehsan Aboutorabi, Sonia Baloni Ray, Daniel Kaping, Farhad Shahbazi, Stefan Treue , et al. · 2023

The data used to generate Figures 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4A, 4B, 5, 6, 7A, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, and S8 in our research article titled 'Phase of neural oscillations as a reference frame for attention-based routing in visual cortex.'

Phase of neural oscillations as a reference frame for attention-based routing in visual cortex Open

Ehsan Aboutorabi, Sonia Baloni Ray, Daniel Kaping, Farhad Shahbazi, Stefan Treue , et al. · 2023

The data used to generate Figures 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, and S9 in our research article titled 'Phase of neural oscillations as a reference frame for attention-based routing in visual cortex.'

Phase of neural oscillations as a reference frame for attention-based routing in visual cortex Open

Ehsan Aboutorabi, Sonia Baloni Ray, Daniel Kaping, Farhad Shahbazi, Stefan Treue , et al. · 2023

The data used to generate Figures 2B, 3, 4, 5, 6A, S1, S2, S3, and S4 in our research article titled ' Phase of neural oscillations as a reference frame for attention-based routing in visual cortex.'

Phase of neural oscillations as a reference frame for attention-based routing in visual cortex Open

Ehsan Aboutorabi, Sonia Baloni Ray, Daniel Kaping, Farhad Shahbazi, Stefan Treue , et al. · 2023

The data used to generate Figures 2B, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4A, 4B, 5, 6, 7A, S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, and S8 in our research article titled 'Phase of neural oscillations as a reference frame for attention-based routing in visual cortex.'

Home-Enclosure-Based Behavioral and Wireless Neural Recording Setup for Unrestrained Rhesus Macaques Open

Laura Hansmeyer, Pinar Yurt, Naubahar Agha, Attila Trunk, Michael Berger , et al. · 2022

Electrophysiological studies with behaving nonhuman primates often require the separation of animals from their social group as well as partial movement restraint to perform well-controlled experiments. When the research goal per se does n…

Assessing cognitive flexibility in humans and rhesus macaques with visual motion and neutral distractors Open

Pinar Yurt, Antonino Calapai, Roger Mundry, Stefan Treue · 2022

Introduction Cognitive flexibility is the ability of an individual to make behavioral adjustments in response to internal and/or external changes. While it has been reported in a wide variety of species, established paradigms to assess cog…

Author response: Human and macaque pairs employ different coordination strategies in a transparent decision game Open

Sebastian Moeller, Anton M. Unakafov, Julia Fischer, Alexander Gail, Stefan Treue , et al. · 2022

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