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ArticleNature communications2025

Multiplexed subspaces route neural activity across brain-wide networks.

Camden J MacDowell, Alexandra Libby, Caroline I Jahn, Sina Tafazoli, Adel Ardalan, Timothy J Buschman

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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6 authors.

Camden J MacDowellPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Washington Rd, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Alexandra Libby *Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Washington Rd, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Caroline I Jahn *Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Washington Rd, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Sina Tafazoli *Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Washington Rd, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Adel Ardalan *Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Washington Rd, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5061-7832
Timothy J BuschmanPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Washington Rd, Princeton, NJ, USA. tbuschma@princeton.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1298-2761

Funding

Understanding the Neural Mechanisms Controlling Brain-wide DynamicsR01MH126022 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Timothy J. Buschman · 2022 to 2026
$2.0M
NRSA TrainingTL1TR003019 · NCATS · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL/HEALTH SCIENCES-RBHS · PI SCOTTO, KATHLEEN W. · 2019 to 2023
$1.9M
NCATS NIH HHS TL1 TR003019NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH126022U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) TL1TR003019U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01MH126022
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Abstract

Cognition is flexible, allowing behavior to change on a moment-by-moment basis. Such flexibility relies on the brain's ability to route information through different networks of brain regions to perform different cognitive computations. However, the mechanisms that determine which network of regions is active are not well understood. Here, we combined cortex-wide calcium imaging with high-density electrophysiological recordings in eight cortical and subcortical regions of mice to understand the interactions between regions. We found different dimensions within the population activity of each region were functionally connected with different cortex-wide 'subspace networks' of regions. These subspace networks were multiplexed; each region was functionally connected with multiple independent, yet overlapping, subspace networks. The subspace network that was active changed from moment-to-moment. These changes were associated with changes in the geometric relationship between the neural response within a region and the subspace dimensions: when neural responses were aligned with (i.e., projected along) a subspace dimension, neural activity was increased in the associated regions. Together, our results suggest that changing the geometry of neural representations within a brain region may allow the brain to flexibly engage different brain-wide networks, thereby supporting cognitive flexibility.

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BrainNerve NetNeuronsAnimalsBrain MappingCalciumCognitionMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLCalcium

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PMCPMC11982558

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