Eran Lottem

The paper identifies corticostriatal neurons in monkeys that encode reward and choice signals, challenging the assumption that these inputs only encode sensorimotor states.

This study investigates how midbrain dopamine neurons control male mouse copulatory behavior, finding that their activity is experience-independent and critical for sustaining thrusting actions during mating.

This study investigates how mice adapt to changing contexts through perceptual inference, showing that adaptation is driven by internal belief updates rather than reward feedback.

This study compares inference-based decision-making in mice and humans using a foraging task, showing humans learn the strategy much faster and identifying orbitofrontal cortex's role in maintaining inference-based decisions.

This study shows that activating serotonin neurons increases mice's willingness to actively exploit a reward site before giving up in a probabilistic foraging task.

This study identifies firing patterns of serotonin neurons in mice during reversal learning, showing they respond to both positive and negative prediction errors and differ from dopamine neurons in learning rates, supporting a role in cognitive flexibility.