Publications by authors named "Elise C Croteau-Chonka"
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- Learning about stimuli and actions that predict rewards or punishments is crucial for survival, but the brain mechanisms behind different types of learning remain unclear.
- * Researchers have created a high-throughput training system that tracks the behavior of multiple larvae at once and uses precise stimulation to investigate associative learning.
- * The study successfully shows that larvae can perform both classical conditioning and operant conditioning, expanding our understanding of their learning capabilities and aiding future research on neural circuits involved in learning.
Cortical development and white matter myelination are hallmark processes of infant and child neurodevelopment, and play a central role in the evolution of cognitive and behavioral functioning. Non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been used to independently track these microstructural and morphological changes in vivo, however few studies have investigated the relationship between them despite their concurrency in the developing brain. Further, because measures of cortical morphology rely on underlying gray-white matter tissue contrast, which itself is a function of white matter myelination, it is unclear if contrast-based measures of cortical development accurately reflect cortical architecture, or if they merely represent adjacent white matter maturation.
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