Rory John Bufacchi

This paper models social defeat in mice as a POMDP to understand how adverse social experiences reshape decision-making and predict behavioral outcomes.

This paper explains the origin of body-part centric receptive fields using reinforcement learning and shows how they form a short-term model of the near-body environment.

This study shows that neural entrainment occurs at ultra-low frequencies (0.1 Hz) for thermal pain stimuli but not for auditory stimuli, linking it to pain sensitivity.