Michele A. Basso

This study computes sex-specific survival curves for 12 nonhuman primate species to characterize aging patterns and provides insights into lifespan and healthspan differences.

The paper introduces a miniature microscope for high-resolution neural imaging in freely behaving rats, capable of imaging over 1000 neurons in the hippocampus and 2000 in the cortex.

The paper compares epifluorescence, immunofluorescence, and immunohistochemistry for assessing viral-mediated gene expression in macaques, finding that the latter two methods detect more transduced neurons and provide better visualization.

The paper investigates how implicit and explicit learning of Bayesian priors affects perceptual decision-making by analyzing orientation and color-specific biases in a visual task.

This study shows that inactivating the superior colliculus in monkeys alters perceptual decision-making, supporting the embodied cognition model by linking decision evidence accumulation to a brainstem structure.

The paper develops a neural network model with normalization tuning to explain dissociations between confidence and decision accuracy in perceptual tasks, validated in macaque superior colliculus.

The paper shows that optogenetic activation of inhibitory nigro-collicular circuits in mice produces contralateral orienting movements, suggesting inhibition actively contributes to movement generation.

The paper investigates whether neuronal activity in the superior colliculus signals optimal or subjective confidence during decision-making tasks and finds that it reflects decision accuracy rather than subjective confidence.