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Keita Tamura

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K. Tamura is a Marie Curie Fellow at EPFL in Lausanne. He received BS in biophysics from Kyoto University, and MS and PhD in physiology from The University of Tokyo. In Tokyo, he combined optogenetics and psychophysics in macaque monkeys, and revealed that the perirhinal cortex causally drives subjective judgments of visual memory. In Lausanne, he has been studying how contextual judgements disconnect and reconnect causal brain circuits by combining optogenetics and calcium imaging in mice.

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BIO-615: Neural circuits for reward and aversion learning

Animals must learn from past experiences, to adapt their behavior to an ever-changing environment. Students will learn about the neuronal circuit mechanisms of reward-based learning, and of aversively

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Cell-class-specific orofacial motor maps in mouse neocortex

Carl Petersen, Sylvain Crochet, Keita Tamura, Pol Bech Vilaseca

Cortical motor maps represent fundamental organizing principles for voluntary motor control,1 yet their underlying structure remains poorly understood, including regions of sensory2,3 and parietal cortex,4 as well as the classical frontal motor cortex. To ...

2025

Cell class-specific long-range axonal projections of neurons in mouse whisker-related somatosensory cortices

Carl Petersen, Sylvain Crochet, Keita Tamura, Yanqi Liu, Pol Bech Vilaseca

Long-range axonal projections of diverse classes of neocortical excitatory neurons likely contribute to brain-wide interactions processing sensory, cognitive and motor signals. Here, we performed light-sheet imaging of fluorescently labeled axons from gene ...

2024

Learning-related congruent and incongruent changes of excitation and inhibition in distinct cortical areas

Carl Petersen, Sylvain Crochet, Romain Guiet, Georgios Foustoukos, Vahid Esmaeili, Keita Tamura, Anastasiia Oryshchuk, Yanqi Liu, Reza Asri

Excitatory and inhibitory neurons in diverse cortical regions are likely to contribute differentially to the transformation of sensory information into goal-directed motor plans. Here, we investigate the relative changes across mouse sensorimotor cortex in ...

2022