Publications

Reward magnitude determines reinforcement learning efficiency

Science 392(6800): eaeb0813

A global dopaminergic learning rate enables adaptive foraging across many options

Neuron 10.1016/j.neuron.2026.04.010

Evolutionarily conserved neural dynamics across mice, monkeys, and humans

bioRxiv 10.64898/2026.03.06.709637

Correlates of head-fixed directional forelimb movements in mouse superior colliculus and substantia nigra pars reticulata

Neuroscience 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2026.02.010

Composing trajectories for rapid inference of navigational goals

Neuron 10.1016/j.neuron.2026.05.030

Conjoint specification of action by neocortex and striatum

Neuron 113(4): 620-636.e6

Cortical control of innate behavior from subcortical demonstration

preprint

Volition and vigor

Handbook of Behavioral Neuroscience 32: 329-343

Discovery of neuronal cell types by pairing whole cell reconstructions with RNA expression profiles

bioRxiv 10.1101/2024.12.30.630829

Nonlinear manifolds underlie neural population activity during behaviour

preprint

Integrating across behaviors and timescales to understand the neural control of movement

Current Opinion in Neurobiology 85: 102843

Preserved neural population dynamics across animals performing similar behaviour

Nature 623: 765-771

Mesolimbic dopamine adapts the rate of learning from action

Nature 614: 294-302

Hippocampal representations of foraging trajectories depend upon spatial context

Nature Neuroscience 25: 1693-1705

Motor cortical output is selectively distributed across projection neuron classes

Science Advances 10.1126/sciadv.abj5167

Dissociable contributions of phasic dopamine activity to reward and prediction

Cell Reports 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.109684

Neuron-type specificity of dorsal raphe projections to ventral tegmental area

biorxiv 10.1101/2021.01.06.425641

Neuropixels 2.0: A miniaturized high-density probe for stable, long-term brain recordings

Science 372(6539)

Basal ganglia circuits for action specification

Annual Reviews in Neuroscience

Learning from action: reconsidering movement signaling in midbrain dopamine neuron activity

Neuron 104(1): 63-77

A repeated molecular architecture across thalamic pathways

Nature Neuroscience

Reconstruction of 1,000 projection neurons reveals new cell types and long-range connectivity

Cell 179(1): 268-81

Expansion of the Optogenetics Toolkit through Topological Inversion of Rhodopsins

Cell 175(4):1131-1140

High-Throughput Synapse-Resolving Two-Photon Fluorescence Microendoscopy In Vivo

eLife 8:e40805

The timing of action determines reward expectation signals in dopamine neurons

Nature Neuroscience 21(11):1563-1573

A proposed circuit computation in basal ganglia: history dependent gain

Movement Disorders 33(5):704-16

Desensitized D2 autoreceptors are resistant to trafficking

Scientific Reports 7: 4379

Deconstructing behavioral neuropharmacology with cellular specificity

Science 356: eaaj2161

Behavioral evidence for feedback gain control by the substantia nigra

biorxiv 10.1101/090209

Efficient retrograde access to projection neurons with a designer AAV

Neuron 92(2):372–82

Opponent and bidirectional control of movement velocity in the basal ganglia

Nature 533(7603):402-6

The basal ganglia: from motor commands to the control of vigor

Current Opinion in Neurobiology 37:158-166

A minimally invasive microendoscopy system for in vivo functional imaging

Biomedical Optics Express 6(11): 4546-56

Dopamine is required for the neural representation and control of movement vigor

Cell 162(6): 1418-30

A specific component of the evoked potential mirrors phasic dopamine neuron activity during conditioning

Journal of Neuroscience 35(29): 10451-10459

The inhibitory microcircuit of the substantia nigra provides feedback gain control

eLife 3:e02397

Precise spatial coding is preserved along the longitudinal hippocampal axis

Hippocampus 24(12):1533-48

Chapter 17: The Basal Ganglia

The Rat Nervous System 4th edition

Mice infer probabilistic models for timing

PNAS 110(42): 17154-17159

RIVETS: a 3D printable system for in vivo and in vitro electrophysiology and imaging

PLoS ONE 9(2): e89007

Neural signals of extinction in the inhibitory microcircuit of the ventral midbrain

Nature Neuroscience 16(1):71-8

Inputs to the dorsal striatum of the mouse conserve the parallel architecture of the forebrain

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy 4:147

Stochastically gating ion channels enable patterned spike firing

PLoS Computational Biology 5(2):e1000290