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Nathan F. Parker

Princeton University

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A neural substrate of sex-dependent modulation of motivation by value

Julia Cox, Adelaide R. Minerva, Weston Fleming, Christopher A Zimmerman, Cameron L Hayes, Samuel Zorowitz, Akhil Bandi, Sharon Ornelas, Brenna McMannon, Nathan F. Parker, Ilana B. Witten

The paper identifies a neural substrate in mice where female-specific modulation of motivation by value is mediated by ACC-DMS neurons.

Nature Neuroscience · Jan 16, 2023Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Choice-selective sequences dominate in cortical relative to thalamic inputs to the nucleus accumbens, providing a potential substrate for credit assignment

Nathan F. Parker, Avinash Baidya, Julia Cox, Laura M. Haetzel, Anna Zhukovskaya, Malavika Murugan, Ben Engelhard, Mark S. Goldman, Ilana B. Witten

The paper compares cortical and thalamic inputs to the nucleus accumbens in mice during a reinforcement learning task, finding that cortical inputs represent actions and choices while thalamic inputs represent cues, with cortical sequences supporting reinforcement learning.

bioRxiv · Sep 2, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience

Value representations do not explain movement selectivity in DMS-projecting dopamine neurons

Rachel S Lee, Marcelo Gomes Mattar, Nathan F. Parker, Ilana B. Witten, Nathaniel D. Daw

The paper investigates whether movement-related activity in dopamine neurons can be explained by reward prediction error (RPE) and finds that choice encoding is distinct from RPE.

eLife · Apr 4, 2019Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Combined social and spatial coding in a descending projection from the prefrontal cortex

Malavika Murugan, Hee Jae Jang, Michelle Park, Ellia M. Miller, Julia Cox, Joshua P Taliaferro, Nathan F. Parker, Varun M. Bhave, Hong Beom Hur, Yupu Liang, Alexander R. Nectow, Jonathan W. Pillow, Ilana B. Witten

The paper identifies a subpopulation of prefrontal cortex neurons that integrate social and spatial information to support socially motivated behavior.

Cell · Dec 1, 2017Peer-reviewedNeuroscience