Selected Publications

Wolcott NS, Redman WT, Karpinska M, Jacobs EJ, Goard MJ (2025). The estrous cycle modulates hippocampal spine dynamics, dendritic processing, and spatial coding. Neuron, 113(14):2297-2309.e7.

Redman WT*, Acosta-Mendoza S*, Wei XX, Goard MJ (2025). Robust variability of grid cell properties within individual grid modules enhances encoding of local space. eLife, 13: RP100652. (*co-first author).

 Martins DM⁺, Manda JM⁺, Goard MJ*, Parker PRL* (2024). Building egocentric models of local space from retinal input. Current Biology, 34(23): R1185-R1202. (⁺co-first author, *co-senior author).

Franco LM & Goard MJ (2024). Differential stability of task variable representations in retrosplenial cortex. Nature Communications, 15: 687.

Sit KK & Goard MJ (2023). Coregistration of heading to visual cues in retrosplenial cortex. Nature Communications, 14:1992.

Redman WT, Wolcott NS, Montelisciani L, Luna G, Marks TD, Sit KK, Yu CH, Smith SL, Goard MJ (2022). Long-term Transverse Imaging of the Hippocampus with Glass Microperiscopes. eLife, 11: e75391.

Telias M⁺, Sit K⁺, Frozenfar D, Smith B, Misra A, Goard MJ*, Kramer RH* (2022). Inhibiting retinoic acid mitigates vision loss in a mouse model of retinal degeneration. Science Advances 9 (11). (⁺co-first author, *co-senior author).

Wolcott NS, Sit KK, Raimondi G, Hodges T, Shansky RM, Galea LAM, Ostroff LE, Goard MJ (2022). Automated classification of estrous stage in rodents using deep learning. Scientific Reports, 12: 17685.

 Franco LM & Goard MJ (2021). A Distributed Circuit for Associating Environmental Context to Motor Choice in Retrosplenial Cortex. Science Advances, 7 (35).

Marks TD & Goard MJ (2021). Stimulus-dependent representational drift in primary visual cortex. Nature Communications, 12:5169.

Xia J, Marks TD, Goard MJ*, Wessel R* (2021). Stable representation of a naturalistic movie emerges from episodic activity with gain variability. Nature Communications, 12:5170. (*co-senior author).

Chen Q*, Deister CA*, Gao X, Guo B, Lynn-Jones T, Chen N, Wells MF, Liu R, Goard MJ, Dimidschstein J, Feng S, Shi Y, Liao W, Lu Z, Fishell G, Moore CI, Feng G (2020). Dysfunction of Cortical GABAergic Neurons Leads to Sensory Hyper-reactivity in Shank3 Model of Autism. Nature Neuroscience, 23: 520–532.

Sit KK, Goard MJ (2020). Distributed and Retinotopically Asymmetric Processing of Coherent Motion in Mouse Visual Cortex. Nature Communications, 11:3565.

Xia J, Marks TD, Goard MJ*, Wessel R* (2020). Diverse co-active neurons encode stimulus-driven and stimulus-independent variables. Journal of Neurophysiology, 124: 1505–1517. (*co-senior author).

Pho GN*, Goard MJ*, Woodson J, Crawford B, Sur M (2018). Task-dependent representations of stimulus and choice in mouse parietal cortex. Nature Communications, 9:2596. (*co-first author).

Goard MJ, Pho GN, Woodson J, Sur M (2016). Distinct roles of visual, parietal, and frontal motor cortices in a memory-guided sensorimotor decisions. eLife, 5:e13764.

Pinto L*, Goard MJ*, Estandian D, Xu M, Kwan AC, Lee S-H, Harrison TC, Feng G, Dan Y (2013). Fast modulation of visual perception by basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. Nature Neuroscience, 16(12): 1857-63. (*co-first author).

Chen Q, Cichon J, Wang W, Qiu L, Lee S-JR, Campbell NR, Destefino N, Goard MJ, Fu Z, Yasuda R, Looger LL, Arenkiel BR, Gan W-B, Feng G (2012). Imaging neural activity using Thy1-GCaMP transgenic mice. Neuron, 76(2): 297-308.

Goard M, Dan Y (2009). Basal forebrain activation enhances cortical coding of natural scenes. Nature Neuroscience, 12(11): 1444-9.