Mriganka Sur - Major Publications

Major Publications

Selected from over 200 publications.

• Sur, M., P.E. Garraghty and A.W. Roe. Experimentally induced visual projections into auditory thalamus and cortex. Science 242: 1437-1441, 1988.
• Roe, A.W., S.L. Pallas, J.O. Hahm and M. Sur. A map of visual space induced in primary auditory cortex. Science 250: 818-820, 1990.
• Hahm, J.-O., R.B. Langdon and M. Sur. Disruption of retinogeniculate afferent segregation by antagonists to NMDA receptors. Nature 351: 568-570, 1991.
• Nelson, S., L. Toth, B. Sheth, and M. Sur. Orientation selectivity of cortical neurons persists during intracellular blockade of inhibition. Science 265: 774-777, 1994.
• Somers, D.C., S.B. Nelson and M. Sur. An emergent model of orientation selectivity in cat visual cortical simple cells. Journal of Neuroscience 15: 5448-5465, 1995.
• Toth, L.J., S.C. Rao, D.-S. Kim, D. Somers and M. Sur. Subthreshold facilitation and suppression in primary visual cortex revealed by intrinsic signal imaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 93: 9869-9874, 1996.
• Sheth, B.R., J. Sharma, S.C. Rao and M. Sur. Orientation maps of subjective contours in visual cortex. Science 274: 2110-2115, 1996.
• Dragoi, V., J. Sharma and M. Sur. Adaptation-induced plasticity of orientation tuning in primary visual cortex. Neuron 28:287-298, 2000.
• Sharma, J., A. Angelucci and M. Sur. Induction of visual orientation modules in auditory cortex. Nature 404: 841-847, 2000.
• Von Melchner, L., S.L. Pallas and M. Sur. Visual behavior mediated by retinal projections directed to the auditory pathway. Nature 404: 871-876, 2000.
• Dragoi, V., C. Rivadulla and M. Sur. Foci of orientation plasticity in visual cortex. Nature 411: 80-86, 2001.
• Weng, J., J. McClelland, A. Pentland, O. Sporns, I. Stockman, M. Sur and E. Thelen. Autonomous mental development by robots and animals. Science 291: 599-600, 2001.
• Dragoi, V., C. Turcu and M. Sur. Stability of cortical responses and the statistics of natural scenes. Neuron 32: 1181-1192, 2001.
• Dragoi, V., J. Sharma, E.K. Miller and M. Sur. Dynamics of neuronal sensitivity in visual cortex and local feature discrimination. Nature Neuroscience 5: 883-891, 2002.
• Schummers, J., J. Marino and M. Sur. Synaptic integration by V1 neurons depends on location within the orientation map. Neuron 36: 969-978, 2002.
• Newton, J.R., C. Ellsworth, T. Miyakawa, S. Tonegawa and M. Sur. Acceleration of visually cued conditioned fear through the auditory pathway. Nature Neuroscience 7: 968-973, 2004.
• Oray S, A. Majewska and M. Sur. Dendritic spine dynamics are regulated by monocular deprivation and extracellular matrix degradation. Neuron 44: 1021-1030, 2004.
• Sur, M. and J. Rubenstein. Patterning and plasticity of the cerebral cortex. Science 310: 805-810, 2005.
• Mariño J., J. Schummers, D.C. Lyon, L. Schwabe, O. Beck, P. Wiesing, K. Obermayer and M. Sur. Invariant computations in local cortical networks with balanced excitation and inhibition. Nature Neuroscience 8: 194-201, 2005.
• Yu, H., B. Farley, D. Z. Jin and M. Sur. The coordinated mapping of visual space and stimulus features in visual cortex. Neuron 47: 267-280, 2005.
• Tropea, D., G. Kreiman, A. Lyckman, S. Mukherjee, H. Yu, S. Horng and M. Sur. Gene expression changes and molecular pathways mediating activity-dependent plasticity in visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience 9: 660-668, 2006.
• Wang, K.H., A. Majewska, J. Schummers, B. Farley, C. Hu, M. Sur, and S. Tonegawa. In vivo two-photon imaging reveals a role of Arc in enhancing orientation specificity in visual cortex. Cell 126: 389-402, 2006.
• Schummers, J., H. Yu and M. Sur. Tuned responses of astrocytes and their influence on hemodynamic signals in the visual cortex. Science 320: 1638-1643, 2008.
• Tropea, D., E. Giacometti, N. R. Wilson, C. Beard, C. McCurry, D. Fu, R. Flannery, R. Jaenisch, and M. Sur. Partial reversal of Rett-Syndrome like symptoms in MeCP2 mutant mice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 2029-2034, 2009.
• Page, D.T., O. Kuti, C. Prestia and M. Sur. Haploinsufficiency for Pten and Serotonin transporter cooperatively influences brain size and social behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106: 1989-1994, 2009.
• McCurry, C.L., J.D. Shepherd, D. Tropea, K.H. Wang, M.F. Bear and M. Sur. Loss of Arc renders the visual cortex impervious to the effects of sensory deprivation or experience. Nature Neuroscience 13: 450-457, 2010.
• Runyan, C.A., J.Schummers, A.Van Wart, S.Kuhlmann, N.Wilson, Z.J.Huang and M. Sur. Response features of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons suggest precise roles for subtypes of inhibition in visual cortex. Neuron 9: 847-857, 2010.