Selected Publications

Brain rhythms and cognition

• * M. Olufsen, M. Whittington, M. Camperi, and N. Kopell. New roles for the gamma rhythm: Population tuning and preprocessing for the Beta rhythm. J. Comput. Neurosci., 2003;14:35-54.
• * C. Borgers, S. Epstein, and N.J. Kopell. Background gamma rhythmicity and attention in cortical local circuits: A computational study. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. U.S. A., 2005;102:7002-7.
• * N. Kopell, M. Whittington, and M. Kramer. Neuronal assembly dynamics in the beta1 frequency range permits short-term memory. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2011;108(9):3779-84.
• * A. Gelastopoulos, M.A. Whittington, and N. Kopell. Parietal beta1 rhythm provides a dynamical substrate for a working memory buffer. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2019 Aug 13;116(33):16613-16620. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1902305116. Epub 2019 Aug 1.
• * J. Chartove, M. McCarthy, B. Pittman-Polletta, and N. Kopell. A biophysical model of striatal microcircuits suggests delta/theta - rhythmically interleaved gamma and beta oscillations mediate periodicity in motor control. PLOS Comput. Bio., 2020 Feb 25;16(2):e1007300. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007300. eCollection 2020 Feb.
•    L. Rubchinsky, N. Kopell, and K. Sigvardt. Modeling facilitation and inhibition of competing motor programs in basal ganglia subthalamic nucleus-pallidal circuits. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2003;100:14427-32.
• * S. Kunec, M.E. Hasselmo, and N. Kopell. Encoding and retrieval in the CA3 region of the hippocampus: A model of theta phase separation. J. Neurophysiol., 2005;94:70-82.
•    G. Soto, N. Kopell, and K. Sen. Network architecture, receptive fields, and neuromodulation: Computational and functional implications of cholinergic modulation in primary auditory cortex. J. Neurophysiol., 2006;96:2972-83.
• * J. Beshel, N. Kopell, and L. Kay. Olfactory bulb gamma oscillations are enhanced with task demands. J. Neurosci., 2007;27(31):8358-65.
• * A. Tort, M. Kramer, C. Thorn, D. Gibson, Y. Kubota, A. Graybiel, and N. Kopell. Dynamic cross-frequency couplings of local field potential oscillations in rat striatum and hippocampus during performance of a T-maze task. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2008;105(51):20517-22.
• * A. Tort, R. Komorowski, J. Manns, N. Kopell, and H. Eichenbaum. Theta-gamma coupling increases during the learning of item-context associations. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2009;106(49):20942-7.
•    A. Tort, R. Komorowski, N. Kopell, and H. Eichenbaum. A mechanism for the formation of hippocampal neuronal firing patterns that represent what happens where. Learn. Mem., 2011;18(11):718-27.
• * L. Kay, J. Beshel, J. Brea, C. Martin, D. Rojas-Libano, and N. Kopell. Olfactory oscillations: The what, how and what for. Trends Neurosci., 2009;32(4):207-14.
•    M. Ainsworth, S. Lee, M. Cunningham, A. Roopun, R. Traub, N. Kopell, and M. Whittington. Dual gamma rhythm generators control interlaminar synchrony in auditory cortex. J. Neurosci., 2011;31(47):17040-51.
• * S. Vijayan and N. Kopell. A Thalamic Model of Alpha and Its Implications for Stimulus Processing. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2012 Nov 6;109(45):18553-8.
• * J. Lee, M. Whittington, and N. Kopell. Top-down beta rhythms support selective attention via interlaminar interaction: a model. PLOS Comput. Biol., 2013 Aug;9(8):e1003164. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003164. Epub 2013 Aug 8.
•    D. Stanley, J. Roy, N. Kopell, and E. Miller. Low-beta oscillations turn up the gain during category judgments. Cereb. Cortex 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhw356 , Nov 19, 2016.
•    N. Adams, J. Sherfey, N. Kopell, M. Whittington, and F. LeBeau. Hetereogeneity in neuronal intrinsic properties: A possible mechanism for hub-like properties of the rat anterior cingulate cortex during network activity. eNeuro., 2017 Mar 7;4(1). pii: ENEURO.0313-16.2017. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0313-16.2017. eCollection 2017 Jan-Feb.
•    S. Ardid, J.S. Sherfey, M.M. McCarthy, J. Hass, B.R. Pittman-Polletta, and N. Kopell. Biased competition in the absence of input bias revealed through corticostriatal computation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2019 Apr 23;116(17):8564-8569. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1812535116. Epub 2019 Apr 8.
• * A. Bastos, M. Lundqvist, A. Waite, N. Kopell, and E. Miller. Layer and rhythm specificity for predictive routing. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 2020 Dec 8;117(49):31459-31469. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2014868117. Epub 2020 Nov.
• B. Pittman-Polletta, Y. Wang, D. Stanley, C. Schroeder, M.A. Whittington, and N. Kopell. Differential contributions of synaptic and intrinsic inhibitory currents to speech segmentation via flexible phase-locking in neural oscillators. PLOS Comp. Biol., 2021 Apr 14;17(4):e1008783. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008783. eCollection 2021 Apr.
• * K. Quast, R. Reh, M. Caiati, N. Kopell, M. McCarthy, and T. Hensch. Rapid Synaptic and Gamma Rhythm Signature of Mouse Critical Period Plasticity. Proc. Nat. Acad of Sciences, U. S. A., 2023 Jan 10;120(2):e2123182120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2123182120. Epub 2023 Jan 4.
• * A. Aussel, I. Feibelkorn, S. Kastner, N. Kopell, and B. Pittman-Polletta. Interacting rhythms enhance sensitivity of target detection in a fronto-parietal computational model of visual attention. eLife, 2023 Jan 31;12:e67684. doi: 10.7554/eLife.67684.
• * A. Cattani. D.B. Arnold, M. McCarthy, and N. Kopell. Basolateral amygdala oscillations enable fear learning in a biophysical model. eLife, 2024 Nov 26;12:RP89519. doi: 10.7554/eLife.89519.