@DragoiLab

Scientific Director @MethodistHosp, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering @RiceUniversity, Professor of Neuroscience @WeillCornell

 Houston, TX
houstonmethodist.org/academic-institute/research/labs/dragoi-lab/
Joined May 2023
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Our new study, out today in @Nature, leverages wireless recording and behavioral tracking to reveal how visual cues underlie social cooperation. Congratulations to @Melissa_Franch on a landmark achievement! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

Visuo-frontal interactions during social learning in freely moving macaques

Nature - Behavioural tracking and wireless neural and eye-tracking recordings show that freely moving macaques learn to cooprate using visually guided signals along the visual-frontal cortical...

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We're excited to share our latest scientific paper, "Optogenetic modulation of long-range cortical circuits in awake nonhuman primates," now published in @NatureProtocols. nature.com/articles/s41596-0…

Optogenetic modulation of long-range cortical circuits in awake nonhuman primates

Nature Protocols - The combination of optogenetic manipulation with standard chamber-based electrophysiological recordings in awake nonhuman primates enables the manipulation of short- and...

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Our new paper in @ScienceMagazine reveals how sleep enhances behavioral performance by desynchronizing visual and prefrontal cortical circuits. The beneficial effects of sleep were replicated by low-frequency intracortical electrical stimulation. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

NREM sleep improves behavioral performance by desynchronizing cortical circuits

Sleep improves cognitive performance, yet little is known about the neural mechanisms of this improvement. We performed multielectrode recording in macaque visual and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex...

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Come check out our research this year at #SfN2024 in Chicago!
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Congratulations to our graduate students who presented at the Neuroscience Fall Symposium! @NeuroMDAUTH @MDA_UTHGrad
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New lab photo at the Fall Symposium for the Center for Neural Systems Restoration! @MethodistHosp
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Practicing cooperative skills shapes brain-wide networks Spotlight by Haozhou Jiang & Julia Sliwa (@jsliwa_neuro) on recent @Nature article by @Melissa_Franch, @DragoiLab, and colleagues Free access until June 23: authors.elsevier.com/a/1j1et…
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Our recent paper in @NatureNeuro uses wireless recording to decode subjective beliefs in freely-roaming macaques. Available here: nature.com/articles/s41593-0…

Population coding of strategic variables during foraging in freely moving macaques

Nature Neuroscience - This study investigates self-paced actions in freely foraging macaques. Findings highlight continuously evolving neural components that capture beliefs about latent reward...

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Come visit our lineup of posters this year at #SfN2023 in Washington DC!
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Check out our new paper out in @NatureNeuro, which reveals a rapid compensatory mechanism for quenching co-activation in neural networks. nature.com/articles/s41593-0…
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Our new paper out in @NatureComms shows that the brain can selectively enhance different modes of sensory processing during perception. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Are you interested in computational neuroscience? Excited to announce that our lab is actively hiring a Post-Doctoral Fellow and a Research Assistant. Apply on our website now! #neurotwitter #sciencejobs sites.google.com/uth.edu/dra…
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Congratulations to our recent graduate @Melissa_Franch on winning the Dean's Research Scholarship Award! Melissa spearheaded several new paradigms in our lab and looks forward to a bright future in the field of social neuroscience.
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Excited to share our new publication in @ScienceMagazine entitled "Suppressing feedback signals to visual cortex abolishes attentional modulation." Credit goes to @samdebes for her exceptional scientific talent and work ethic. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Suppressing feedback signals to visual cortex abolishes attentional modulation

Feedback projections in the primate visual system convey attention-related modulation of neuronal firing activity.

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Proud to announce our recent publication in @NatureComms entitled "Adaptive coding across visual features during free-viewing and fixation conditions." Congratulations to @sunny_neuro on his hard work. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Excited to announce our recent publication in @PNASNews entitled "Brain state limits propagation of neural signals in laminar cortical circuits." pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.21…

Brain state limits propagation of neural signals in laminar cortical circuits | PNAS

Our perception of the environment relies on the efficient propagation of neural signals across cortical networks. During the time course of a day, ...

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We would like to congratulate our recent graduate Dr. Russell Milton on winning the 2022 Michael R. Blackburn Outstanding Dissertation Award! His dissertation is entitled "Impact of brain state on visual and prefrontal population coding in behaving animals."
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