Male (blue) and female (red) mice vocalize while interacting. This is what I study.

neuroscience
vocal communication
behavior
neuron
vocalize
social
mouse
spike
courtship
Neuropixels
rodent
computation
system
rat
ethology
naturalistic
interaction
posture
kinematics
tracking
ultrasonic
sound
syllable
communication
cortex
electrophysiology
population
encoding
dynamics
freely moving
dyad
male
female
pose
3D
song
hearing
microphone
sound localization
sequence
repertoire
hypothalamus
midbrain
tuning
decoding
manifold
latent
deep learning
model
open source
dataset

Bartul Mimica

Neuroscience · Ethology · Vocal Communication

C.V. Starr Postdoctoral Fellow · Princeton Neuroscience Institute

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About

I am an C.V. Starr Postdoctoral Fellow (ex EMBO) at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute (2021—), working under the joint supervision of Annegret Falkner and Mala Murthy, focused on the neuronal dynamics underlying naturalistic social communication.

My graduate work with Jonathan Whitlock, on neuronal representations of posture in higher-order rodent cortices (2015—2019), was completed at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Norway.

Activity patterns generated by nervous systems appear stochastically linked to animal behavior, and the main purpose of my work is to shed light on such relationships. To learn more about my research, browse through a compilation of recent publications or check out the full Google Scholar list.

Publications

Behavioral decomposition reveals rich encoding structure employed across neocortex.

Mimica B^†, Tombaz T^†, Battistin C^§, Guo Fuglstad J^§, Dunn BA, Whitlock JR

Nature Communications, 2023

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Action representation in the mouse parieto-frontal network.

Tombaz T^†, Dunn BA^†, Hovde K, Cubero RJ, Mimica B, Mamidanna P, Roudi Y, Whitlock JR