Adam L. Smoulder

This study investigates how rare rewards affect performance and neural activity in rhesus monkeys during a color change detection task, finding detrimental changes in V4 population activity linked to perceptual choking.

The paper shows that posture and goal information in motor cortex are organized in separate, orthogonal subspaces, with posture information being stable across tasks.

This study investigates how reward influences movement vigor through multiple mechanisms in motor cortical areas by analyzing neural activity in rhesus monkeys.

The paper trains an autoregressive Transformer on neural spiking data to decode motor behavior, showing broad utility across tasks but highlighting limitations in scaling.

The paper investigates how high rewards affect neural activity in Rhesus monkeys during a reaching task, finding that large rewards reduce neural information about movement plans.