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Jung, K., Chang, M., Steinecke, A., Burke, B., Choi, Y., Oisi, Y., Fitzpatrick, D., Taniguchi, H., & Kwon, H.-B. (2023). An adaptive behavioral control motif mediated by cortical axo-axonic inhibition. Nature Neuroscience.
 

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Chang, J.T., Whitney, D., and Fitzpatrick, D. (2020). Experience-Dependent Reorganization Drives Development of a Binocularly Unified Cortical Representation of Orientation. Neuron, 107: 338-350.e5
 

Scholl, B., and Fitzpatrick, D. (2020). Cortical synaptic architecture supports flexible sensory computations. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 64, 41–45. 

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Smith, G.B., Hein, B., Whitney, D.E., Fitzpatrick, D., and Kaschube, M. (2018). Distributed network interactions and their emergence in developing neocortex. Nature Neuroscience 21, 1600-1608. 

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Wilson, D.E., Smith, G.B., Jacob, A.L., Walker, T., Dimidschstein, J., Fishell, G., and Fitzpatrick, D. (2017). GABAergic Neurons in Ferret Visual Cortex Participate in Functionally Specific Networks. Neuron 93, 1058–1065. 

Lu, R., Sun, W., Liang, Y., Kerlin, A., Bierfeld, J., Seelig, J.D., Wilson, D.E., Scholl, B., Mohar, B., Tanimoto, M., Koyama, M., Fitzpatrick, D., Orger, M.B., Ji, N. (2017). Video-rate volumetric functional imaging of the brain at synaptic resolution. Nat. Neurosci. 20, 620–628. 

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