Academic Background: Exploring Perceptual Inference and Neural Mechanisms In everyday life, our sensory systems often encounter incomplete or ambiguous information. For instance, when objects are occluded, the brain relies on prior experience and expectations to infer the whole. This inferential ability is not only a core function of the human visu...

Academic Background In the mammalian neocortex, somatostatin (SST)-expressing neurons are a major class of inhibitory interneurons that exhibit diversity in electrophysiology and morphology, and are involved in various cognitive functions such as learning, memory, and sensory processing. However, despite extensive research on the diversity of SST n...