Mriganka Sur Laboratory Publications

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	• 2011

	Yu H, Majewska AK, Sur M Rapid experience-dependent plasticity of synapse function and structure in ferret visual cortex in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Dec 12. [PDF]

	Mower AF, Kwok S, Yu H, Majewska AK, Okamoto KI, Hayashi Y, Sur M Experience-dependent regulation of CaMKII activity within single visual cortex synapses in vivo. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Dec 12. [PDF]

	Mellios N, Sugihara H, Castro J, Banerjee A, Le C, Kumar A, Crawford B, Strathmann J, Tropea D, Levine SS, Edbauer D, Sur M. miR-132, an experience-dependent microRNA, is essential for visual cortex plasticity. Nature Neuroscience 2011. doi:10.1038/nn.2909. [PDF]

	Mao R, Schummers J, Knoblich U, Lacey CJ, Van Wart A, Cobos I, Kim C, Huguenard JR, Rubenstein JL, Sur M. Influence of a Subtype of Inhibitory Interneuron on Stimulus-Specific Responses in Visual Cortex. Cereb Cortex. 2011 Jun 24. PMID: 21666125 [PDF]

	Cramer SC, Sur M, Dobkin BH, O'Brien C, Sanger TD, Trojanowski JQ, Rumsey JM, Hicks R, Cameron J, Chen D, Chen WG, Cohen LG, deCharms C, Duffy CJ, Eden GF, Fetz EE, Filart R, Freund M, Grant SJ, Haber S, Kalivas PW, Kolb B, Kramer AF, Lynch M, Mayberg HS, McQuillen PS, Nitkin R, Pascual-Leone A, Reuter-Lorenz P, Schiff N, Sharma S, Shekim L, Stryker M, Sullivan EV, Vinogradov S Harnessing neuroplasticity for clinical applications Brain (2011) 134(6): 1591-1609 first published online April 10, 2011 doi:10.1093/brain/awr039 [PDF]

	Tropea D, Sur M, Majewska AK Experience-dependent plasticity in visual cortex: Dendritic spines and visual responsiveness Commun Integr Biol. 2011 Mar-Apr; 4(2): 216–219. doi: 10.4161/cib.4.2.14505 [PDF]

	Malik WQ, Schummers J, Sur M, Brown EN Denoising Two-Photon Calcium Imaging Data. PLoS ONE 2011 6(6):e20490. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020490 [PDF]

	Wilson NR, Sur M Determinants of Synaptic and Circuit Plasticity in the Cerebral Cortex. In: Cerebral Plasticity: New Perspectives (Chalupa LM, ed, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA), pp 75-88, 2011. [PDF]

	• 2010

	Runyan CA, Schummers J, Van Wart A, Kuhlman SJ, Wilson NR, Huang ZJ, Sur M Response Features of Parvalbumin-Expressing Interneurons Suggest Precise Roles for Subtypes of Inhibition in Visual Cortex. Neuron 2010 Sep 9, 67(5):847-857. [PDF]

	Tropea D, Majewska AK, Garcia R, and Sur M Structural Dynamics of Synapses in Vivo Correlate with Functional Changes during Experience-Dependent Plasticity in Visual Cortex J. Neurosci. 2010 30: 11086-11095; doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1661-10.2010 [PDF]

	Yu, H, Schummers J, Sur M The influence of astrocyte activation on hemodynamic signals for functional brain imaging. In: Imaging the Brain with Optical Methods (Roe AW, ed, Springer NY), pp 45-64, 2010. [PDF]

	Stevenson IH, Cronin B, Sur M, Kording KP Sensory Adaptation and Short Term Plasticity as Bayesian Correction for a Changing Brain. PLoS ONE 2010 5(8): e12436. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0012436. [PDF]

	McCurry CL, Shepherd JD, Tropea D, Wang KH, Bear MF, Sur M. Loss of Arc renders the visual cortex impervious to the effects of sensory experience or deprivation. Nat Neurosci. 2010 Apr;13(4):450-7. [PDF]

	Cronin, B., Stevenson, I.H.., Sur, M., Kording, K.P. Hierarchical Bayesian modeling and Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling for tuning curve analysis. J Neurophysiol. 2010 Jan; 103(1):591-602. [PDF]

	• 2009

	Page DT, Kuti OJ, Sur M. Computerized assessment of social approach behavior in mouse. Front Behav Neurosci. 2009 Nov 30;3:48.[PDF]

	Malik, W., Schummers, J., Sur, M., Brown, E., A Statistical Model for Multiphoton Calcium Imaging of the Brain. 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, September 2-6, 2009 [PDF]

	Horng, S., Kreiman, G., Ellsworth, C., Page, D., Blank, M., Millen, K., Sur, M. Differential gene expression in the developing lateral geniculate nucleus and medial geniculate nucleus reveals novel roles for Zic4 and Foxp2 in visual and auditory pathway development. Journal of Neuroscience 29(43): 13672-13683, 2009. [PDF]

	Neville, H., Sur, M. Introduction to Plasticity. In "The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th Edition," ed. M.S. Gazzaniga, MIT Press, pp. 89-91, 2009. [PDF]

	Horng, S., Sur, M. Patterning and Plasticity of Maps in the Mammalian Visual Pathway. In "The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th Edition," ed. M.S. Gazzaniga, MIT Press, pp. 91-107, 2009. [PDF]

	Stimberg, M., K. Wimmer, R. Martin, L. Schwabe, J. Marino, J. Schummers, D. Lyon, M. Sur and K. Obermayer. The operating regime of local computations in primary visual cortex. Cerebral Cortex (advanced access e-publication Feb 16), 2009. [PDF]

	Mao, R., D.T. Page, J. Holtzman, I. Merzlyak, C. Kim, L. H. Tecott, P.H. Janak, J.L.R. Rubenstein, and M. Sur. Reduced conditioned fear response in mice that lack /Dlx1/ and show subtype-specific loss of interneurons. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders 1:224-236. 2009. [PDF]

	Leamey, C.A., A. Van Wart and M. Sur. Intrinsic patterning and experience-dependent mechanisms that generate eye-specific projections and binocular circuits in the visual pathway. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 19:181-187. 2009. [PDF]

	Tropea D., Giacometti E., Wilson N.R., Beard C., McCurry C., Fu D.D., Flannery R., Jaenisch R., Sur M. Partial reversal of Rett Syndrome-like symptoms in MeCP2 mutant mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106:2029-2034. 2009. [PDF]

	Wimmer K., Stimberg M., Martin R., Schwabe L., Mariño J., Schummers J., Lyon D.C., Sur M., Obermayer K. Dependence of orientation tuning on recurrent excitation and inhibition in a network model of V1. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21. (D. Koller, D. Schuurmans, Y. Bengio, and L. Bottou, editors, MIT Press), pp 1769–1776, 2009. [PDF]

	Page D.T., Kuti O.J., Prestia C., Sur M. Haploinsufficiency for Pten and Serotonin transporter cooperatively influences brain size and social behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106:1989-1994. 2009. [PDF]

	• 2008


	Tropea D., Van Wart A., Sur M. Molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity in visual cortex Phil Trans R Soc B 364:341-355, 2009. Published online 31 October 2008 [PDF]

	Sur M. The Emerging Nature of Nurture Science 322:1636. 2008. [PDF]
	Lyckman A.W., Horng S., Leamey C.A., Tropea D., Watakabe A., Van Wart A., McCurry C., Yamamori T., Sur M. Gene expression patterns in visual cortex during the critical period: synaptic stabilization and reversal by visual deprivation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 105(27):9409-14. 2008. [PDF]
	Leamey C.A., Glendining K.A., Kreiman G., Kang N.D., Wang K.H., Fassler R., Sawatari A., Tonegawa S. and Sur M. Differential Gene Expression between Sensory Neocortical Areas: Potential Roles for Ten_m3 and Bcl6 in Patterning Visual and Somatosensory Pathways. Cerebral Cortex 2008. [PDF]

	Schummers J., Yu H., Sur M. Tuned responses of astrocytes and their influence on hemodynamic signals in the visual cortex. Science 320(5883):1638-43, 2008. [PDF]
		**See also: Welberg, L. Astrocytes: More than meets the eye Nature Reviews Neuroscience 9, 586, 2008. [PDF]
		*and: Swaminathan, N. Mysterious Brain Cells Linked to Blood Flow Scientific American July 20, 2008.
		*and: Wolf, F., and Kirchhoff, F. Imaging Astrocyte Activity Science 320: 1597-1599. [PDF]

	• 2007

	Wilson N.R., Ty M.T., Ingber D.E., Sur M. and Liu G. Synaptic Reorganization in Scaled Networks of Controlled Size. Journal of Neuroscience 27 (50):13581, 2007.[PDF]

	Schummers J., Cronin B., Wimmer K., Stimberg M., Martin R., Obermayer K., Kording K. and Sur M. Dynamics of orientation tuning in cat V1 neurons depend on location within layers and orientation maps Frontiers in Neuroscience 1:145-159, 2007.[PDF]

	Farley B.F., Yu H., Jin D.Z., and Sur M. Alteration of Visual Input Results in a Coordinated Reorganization of Multiple Visual Cortex Maps The Journal of Neuroscience 27:10299–10310, 2007. [PDF]

	Leamey C.A., Merlin S., Lattouf P., Sawatari A., Zhou X., Demel N., Glendining K., Oohashi T., Sur M. and Fassler R. Ten_m3 Regulates Eye-Specific Patterning in the Mammalian Visual Pathway and is Required for Binocular Vision. PLoS Biology 5:2077-2092, 2007. [PDF]

	Newton J.R., Page D. and Sur M. Developmental studies on rewiring the brain: What they tell us about brain evolution. In: Evolution of Nervous Systems, ed. J.H. Kaas, Academic Press, Oxford, vol 3, pp 103-112, 2007. [PDF]

	• 2006

	Horng, S.H. and M.Sur. Visual activity and cortical rewiring: activity-dependent plasticity of cortical networks. Progress in Brain Research 157:3-11, 2006. [PDF]

	Newton J.R., Majewska A.K., Ellsworth C. and Sur M. Reprogramming cortex: the consequences of cross-modal plasticity during development. In: Reprogramming the Cerebral Cortex, ed., S. Lomber and J. Eggermont, Oxford University Press, pp 349-360, 2006. [PDF]

	Dragoi V. and Sur M. Image Structure at the Center of Gaze during Free Viewing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18:737-748, 2006.[PDF]

	Oray S., Majewska A., and Sur M. Effects of Synaptic Activity on Dendritic Spine Motility of Developing Cortical Layer V Pyramidal Neurons. Cerebral Cortex 16:730-741, 2006. [PDF]

	Majewska A. and Sur M. Plasticity and specificity of cortical processing networks. Trends in Neuroscience 29:323-329, 2006. [PDF]

	Tropea D., Kreiman G., Lyckman A., Mukherjee S., Yu H., Horng S., Sur M. Gene expression changes and molecular pathways mediating activity-dependent plasticity in visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience 9:660-668, 2006. [PDF]

	Majewska A., Newton J. and Sur M. Remodeling of synaptic structure in sensory cortical areas in vivo. Journal of Neuroscience 26:3021-3029, 2006. [PDF]

	Wang K.H., Majewska A., Schummers J., Farley B., Hu C., Sur M. and Tonegawa S. In Vivo Two-Photon Imaging Reveals a Role of Arc in Enhancing Orientation Specificity in Visual Cortex. Cell 126:389–402, 2006. [PDF]

	• 2005

	Schummers, J., Marino, J. and Sur, M. Local networks in visual cortex and their influence on neuronal responses and dynamics. Journal of Physiology Paris 98:429-441, 2005. [PDF]

	Sur, M. and Rubenstein, J.L. Patterning and plasticity of the cerebral cortex. Science 310:805-810, 2005. [PDF]

	Schummers, J., Sharma, J. and Sur, M. Bottom-up and top-down dynamics in visual cortex. Progress in Brain Research 149:65-81, 2005. [PDF]

	Jin, D.Z., Dragoi, V., Sur, M. and Seung, H.S. Tilt after effect and adaptation-induced changes in orientation tuning in visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology 94:4038-4050, 2005. [PDF]

	Sur, M. Breathing life into biology. Nature 436:487, 2005. [PDF]

	Yu, H., Farley, B.J., Jin, D.Z. and Sur, M. The Coordinated Mapping of Visual Space and Response Features in Visual Cortex. Neuron 47:267-280, 2005. [PDF]

		**See commentary by Aniruddha Das: Cortical Maps: Where Theory Meets Experiments. Neuron 47: 168-171, 2005. [PDF]

	Ellsworth, C.A., Lyckman, A.W., Feldheim D.A., Flanagan, J.G. and Sur, M. Ephrin-A2 and -A5 influence patterning of normal and novel retinal projections to the thalamus: Conserved mapping mechanisms in visual and auditory thalamic targets. The Journal of Comparative Neurology 488: 140-151, 2005. [PDF]

	Lyckman, A.W., Fan, G., Rios, M., and Sur, M. Normal eye-specific patterning of retinal inputs to murine subcortical visual nuclei in the absence of brain-derived neurotrophic factor. Visual Neuroscience 22:27-36, 2005. [PDF]

	Mariño, J., Schummers, J., Lyon, D.C., Schwabe, L., Beck, O., Wiesing, P., Obermayer, K. and Sur, M. Invariant computations in local cortical networks with balanced excitation and inhibition. Nature Neuroscience 8: 194-201, 2005. [PDF]

	George, P., Lyckman, A., LaVan, D., Hedge, A., Leung, Y., Avasare, R.,Testa, C., Alexander, P., Langer, R. and Sur, M. Fabrication and biocompatibility of polypyrrole implants suitable for neural prosthetics. Biomaterials 26: 3511-3519, 2005. [PDF]

	• 2004

	Oray, S., Majewska, A. and Sur, M. Dendritic spine dynamics are regulated by monocular deprivation and extracellular matrix degradation. Neuron 44: 1021-1030, 2004 [PDF]

	Newton, J.R., Ellsworth, C., Miyakawa, T., Tonegawa, S. and Sur, M. Acceleration of visually cued conditioned fear through the auditory pathway. Nature Neuroscience 7: 968-973, 2004. [PDF]

	Newton, J.R. and Sur, M. Rewiring cortex functional visual plasticity in the auditory cortex during development. In "Plasticity of the central auditory system and processing of complex acoustic signals" ed., J. Syka and M.M. Merzenich, 2004 [PDF]

	Sur, M. Rewiring cortex: Cross-modal plasticity and its implications for cortical development and function. "Handbook of Multisensory Processing", B. Stein, ed., MIT Press, 2004. [PDF]

	Newton, J.R. and Sur, M. Plasticity of cerebral cortex in development. Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2004.pdf [PDF]

	• 2003

	Sharma, J., Dragoi, V., Tenenbaum, J.B., Miller, E.K. and Sur, M. V1 neurons signal acquisition of an internal representation of stimulus location. Science 300: 1758-1763, 2003. [PDF]

	Leamey, C.A., Ho-Pao, C. and Sur, M. The role of calcineurin in activity dependent pattern formation in the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus of the ferret. Journal of Neurobiology 56: 153-162, 2003. [PDF]

	Marino, J., Schummers, J. and Sur, M. Combinacion de nuevas tecnicas electrofisiologicas y de imagen en el estudio de la funcion de la coteza visual primaria. Revisitia de Nuerologica 36: 944-950, 2003. [PDF]

	Sur, M., and Jayadeva. Cognitive science: sensation, perception and learning. Editorial, special issue on cognitive science, IETE Journal of Research 49: 73-75, 2003. [PDF]

	Dragoi, V., Sharma, J. and Sur, M. Response plasticity in primary visual cortex and its role in vision and visuomotor behavior: Bottom up and top-down influences of orientation processing in adult visual cortex. IETE Journal of Research 49: 77-85, 2003. [PDF]

	Dragoi, V. and Sur, M. Plasticity of orientation processing in adult visual cortex. "The Visual Neurosciences", L.M. Chalupa and J.S. Werner,eds., MIT Press, 1654-1664, 2003. [PDF]

	Majewska, A. and Sur, M. Motility of dendritic spines in visual cortex in vivo: changes during the critical period and effects of visual deprivation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100: 16024-16029, 2003. [PDF]

	• 2002

	Schummers, J., Dragoi, V. and Sur, M. Cortical plasticity: Time for a change Current Biology 12: R168-R170, 2002. [PDF]

	Dragoi, V., Sharma, J., MIller, E.K. and Sur, M. Dynamics of neuronal selectivity in primate visual cortex underlying local feature discrimination. Nature Neuroscience . 5: 883-891, 2002. [PDF]

	Schummers, J., Marino, J. and Sur, M. Synaptic integration by V1 neurons depends on location within the orientation map. Neuron 36: 969-978, 2002. [PDF]

		**see commentary by Edward M. Callaway: Orientation tuning--a crooked path to the straight and narrow. Neuron 5:783-785, 2002. [PDF]

	Leamey, C.A. and Sur, M. The thalamus: A new proposal. Neuron 34: 507-508, 2002. [PDF]

	Lyckman, A. and Sur, M. The role of afferent activity in the development of cortical specification. "Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation, Vol. 39 ", C. Hohmann, ed., Springer-Verlag, pp. 139-156, 2002.[PDF]

	Somers, D., Dragoi, V. and Sur, M. Orientation selectivity and its modulation by local and long-range connections in visual cortex. "The Cat Primary Visual Cortex", A. Peters and B. Payne, eds., Academic Press, pp 471-520, 2002.

	Dragoi, V., Rivadulla, C. and Sur, M. Contributions of ascending thalamic and local intracortical connections to visual cortical function. "Virtual Lesions: Understanding perception and behavior with reversible deactivactivation techniques", S. Lomber and R. Galuske, eds., Oxford University Press, pp. 41-60, 2002.[PDF]

	• 2001

	Dragoi, V., Turcu, C. and Sur, M. Stability of cortical responses and the statistics of natural scenes. Neuron 32: 1181-1192, 2001. [PDF]

	Hohnke, C.D., and Sur, M. Neural activity and the development of brain circuits. In: Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, London: Nature Publishing Group, vol. 13, pp. 19-27, 2001. [PDF]

	Lyckman, A., Jhaveri,S., Feldheim,D., Vanderhaeghen, P., Flanagan, J. and Sur, M. Enhanced plasticity of retinothalamic projections in an ephrin-A2/A5 double mutant. J. Neuroscience 21(19): 7684-7690, 2001. [PDF]

	Sur, M. Cortical development: Transplantation and rewiring studies. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 4: 2837-2842, 2001. [PDF]

	Leamey, C., Ho-Pao., C. and Sur, M. Disruption of retinogeniculate pattern formation by inhibition of soluble guanylyl cyclase. J. Neuroscience 21(11): 3871-3880, 2001. [PDF]

	Dragoi, V., Rivadulla, C. and Sur, M. Foci of orientation plasticity in visual cortex. Nature 411: 80-86, 2001. [PDF]

	Rivadulla, C., J. Sharma and Sur, M. Specific roles of NMDA and AMPA receptors in direction-selective and spatial phase-selective responses in visual cortex. J. Neuroscience 21: 1710-1719, 2001. [PDF]

	Leamey, C. and Sur, M. Development and plasticity of cortical areas and networks. Nature Reviews Neurosci. 2:251-262, 2001. [PDF]

	Weng, J., McClelland, J., Pentland,A., Sporns,O., Stockman,I., Sur, M. and Thelen, E.. Autonomous mental development by robots and animals. Science 291: 599-600, 2001.

	• 2000

	Hohnke, C.D., Oray, S. and Sur, M. Activity-dependent patterning of retinogeniculate axons proceeds with a constant contribution from AMPA and NMDA receptors. J. Neuroscience 20: 8051-8060, 2000. [PDF]

	Dragoi, V., Sharma, J. and Sur, M. Adaptation-induced plasticity of orientation tuning in primary visual cortex. Neuron 28:287-298, 2000. [PDF]

	Angelucci, A., Sharma, J. and Sur, M. Modifiability of neocortical connections and function during development. In: "The Mutable Brain", J.H. Kaas, ed, Harwood Academic Publishers, pp 351-392, 2000.

	Dragoi, V., and Sur, M. Dynamic properties of recurrent inhibition in primary visual cortex: Contrast and orientation dependence of contextual effects. J. Neurophysiol. 83: 1019-1030, 2000. [PDF]

	Von Melchner, L., Pallas, S.L. and Sur, M. Visual behavior mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway. Nature 404:871-876, 2000. [PDF]

	Sharma, J., Angelucci, A. and Sur, M. Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex. Nature 404:841-847, 2000. [PDF]