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Sylvain Crochet is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with significant contributions to the subfields of cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, biophysics, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics centered on neural dynamics and brain function, neuroscience and neural engineering, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, advanced memory and neural computing, EEG and brain-computer interfaces, and neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior.

Recent publications by Sylvain Crochet include:

  • Rapid suppression and sustained activation of distinct cortical regions for a delayed sensory-triggered motor response, 2021, Neuron
  • Cell-type-specific nicotinic input disinhibits mouse barrel cortex during active sensing, 2021, Neuron
  • Cortical circuits for transforming whisker sensation into goal-directed licking, 2020, Current Opinion in Neurobiology
  • Distributed and specific encoding of sensory, motor, and decision information in the mouse neocortex during goal-directed behavior, 2023, Cell Reports
  • Projection-specific Activity of Layer 2/3 Neurons Imaged in Mouse Primary Somatosensory Barrel Cortex During a Whisker Detection Task, 2020, Function

Frequent co-authors in their work include Carl C.H. Petersen, Yanqi Liu, Keita Tamura, Vahid Esmaeili, and Anastasiia Oryshchuk.

Common publication venues for Sylvain Crochet are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuron
  • Function
  • eLife

Best Publications

  • Correlating whisker behavior with membrane potential in barrel cortex of awake mice

    Sylvain Crochet;Carl C H Petersen

  • Thalamic control of cortical states.

    James F A Poulet;Laura M J Fernandez;Sylvain Crochet;Carl C H Petersen

  • Synaptic Mechanisms Underlying Sparse Coding of Active Touch

    Sylvain Crochet;Sylvain Crochet;James F.A. Poulet;James F.A. Poulet;James F.A. Poulet;Yves Kremer;Carl C.H. Petersen

  • The histamine H3 receptor as a novel therapeutic target for cognitive and sleep disorders

    Maria Beatrice Passani;Jian-Sheng Lin;Arthur Hancock;Sylvain Crochet

  • Synaptic Computation and Sensory Processing in Neocortical Layer 2/3

    Carl C.H. Petersen;Sylvain Crochet;Sylvain Crochet

  • Properties of Slow Oscillation during Slow-Wave Sleep and Anesthesia in Cats

    Sylvain Chauvette;Sylvain Crochet;Maxim Volgushev;Igor Timofeev

  • Cholinergic Signals in Mouse Barrel Cortex during Active Whisker Sensing

    Emmanuel Eggermann;Yves Kremer;Sylvain Crochet;Carl C.H. Petersen

  • Combined Voltage and Calcium Epifluorescence Imaging In Vitro and In Vivo Reveals Subthreshold and Suprathreshold Dynamics of Mouse Barrel Cortex

    Thomas Berger;Aren Borgdorff;Sylvain Crochet;Florian B. Neubauer

  • Cell-Type-Specific Sensorimotor Processing in Striatal Projection Neurons during Goal-Directed Behavior

    Tanya Sippy;Damien Lapray;Sylvain Crochet;Carl C.H. Petersen

  • Reward-Based Learning Drives Rapid Sensory Signals in Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Dorsal Hippocampus Necessary for Goal-Directed Behavior

    Pierre Le Merre;Pierre Le Merre;Vahid Esmaeili;Eloïse Charrière;Katia Galan

  • Protean agonism at histamine H3 receptors in vitro and in vivo

    Florence Gbahou;Agnès Rouleau;Séverine Morisset;Régis Parmentier

  • Differentiation of presumed serotonergic dorsal raphe neurons in relation to behavior and wake–sleep states

    K Sakai;S Crochet

  • Pontine structures and mechanisms involved in the generation of paradoxical (REM) sleep.

    K Sakai;S Crochet;H Onoe

  • Movement Initiation Signals in Mouse Whisker Motor Cortex

    Varun Sreenivasan;Varun Sreenivasan;Vahid Esmaeili;Taro Kiritani;Katia Galan

  • Modulation of synaptic transmission in neocortex by network activities.

    Sylvain Crochet;Sylvain Chauvette;Soufiane Boucetta;Igor Timofeev

  • The Cortical States of Wakefulness.

    James F. A. Poulet;James F. A. Poulet;Sylvain Crochet;Sylvain Crochet

  • Rapid suppression and sustained activation of distinct cortical regions for a delayed sensory-triggered motor response

    Vahid Esmaeili;Keita Tamura;Samuel P. Muscinelli;Alireza Modirshanechi

  • Diverse Long-Range Axonal Projections of Excitatory Layer 2/3 Neurons in Mouse Barrel Cortex.

    Takayuki Yamashita;Takayuki Yamashita;Takayuki Yamashita;Angeliki Vavladeli;Aurélie Pala;Aurélie Pala;Katia Galan

  • Cell-type-specific nicotinic input disinhibits mouse barrel cortex during active sensing

    Célia Gasselin;Benoît Hohl;Arthur Vernet;Sylvain Crochet

  • Effects of microdialysis application of monoamines on the EEG and behavioural states in the cat mesopontine tegmentum.

    Sylvain Crochet;Kazuya Sakai

  • Serotonergic dorsal raphe neurons cease firing by disfacilitation during paradoxical sleep

    Kazuya Sakai;Sylvain Crochet

  • Role of dorsal raphe neurons in paradoxical sleep generation in the cat: no evidence for a serotonergic mechanism.

    Kazuya Sakai;Sylvain Crochet

  • A potent non-monoaminergic paradoxical sleep inhibitory system: a reverse microdialysis and single-unit recording study.

    Sylvain Crochet;Hirotaka Onoe;Kazuya Sakai

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl C. H. Petersen
Carl C. H. Petersen École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Kazuya Sakai
Kazuya Sakai Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Igor Timofeev
Igor Timofeev Université Laval
Mircea Steriade
Mircea Steriade Université Laval
James F.A. Poulet
James F.A. Poulet Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Jian-Sheng Lin
Jian-Sheng Lin Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Wulfram Gerstner
Wulfram Gerstner École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Terrence J. Sejnowski Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Hirotaka Onoe
Hirotaka Onoe Kyoto University
Hans-Rudolf Lüscher
Hans-Rudolf Lüscher University of Bern

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