Living systems are never at rest. They are highly dynamic in order to perceive the ever-changing world. In the Barral lab, we are generally interested in the interface between biophysics and neurosciences and more specifically in the biological strategies that organs and organisms have developed to actively sense their environment. These strategies are best illustrated in the sense of hearing. We studied this issue from a physical perspective at the level of the peripheral auditory system and at the level of the central nervous system.
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2023Fast 2-photon stimulation using holographic patterns., Opt Express 2023 Nov; 31(23): 39222-39238.
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2022Signatures of cochlear processing in neuronal coding of auditory information., Mol Cell Neurosci 2022 May; 120(): 103732.
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2019Propagation of temporal and rate signals in cultured multilayer networks., Nat Commun 2019 Sep; 10(1): 3969.
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2018Friction from Transduction Channels’ Gating Affects Spontaneous Hair-Bundle Oscillations., Biophys J 2018 Jan; 114(2): 425-436.
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2017Optogenetic Stimulation and Recording of Primary Cultured Neurons with Spatiotemporal Control., Bio Protoc 2017 Jun; 7(12): .
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2016Synaptic scaling rule preserves excitatory-inhibitory balance and salient neuronal network dynamics., Nat Neurosci 2016 Dec; 19(12): 1690-1696.
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2015Artificial rheotaxis., Sci Adv 2015 May; 1(4): e1400214.
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2014Transduction channels’ gating can control friction on vibrating hair-cell bundles in the ear., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014 May; 111(20): 7185-90.
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2012Phantom tones and suppressive masking by active nonlinear oscillation of the hair-cell bundle., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012 May; 109(21): E1344-51.
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2011The physical basis of active mechanosensitivity by the hair-cell bundle., Curr Opin Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2011 Oct; 19(5): 369-75.
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