Masashi Kondo

This study shows that rapid associative spine enlargement is necessary for maintaining cognitive function and stable wakefulness in mice.

The paper investigates how movement and reward expectancy modulate neural activity in different primate cortical areas during a conditioning task.

This study investigates how motor direction representation changes in primate premotor and primary motor cortices during learning, finding that PMdc neurons dynamically adjust their preferred direction while M1 neurons maintain stability.

The paper investigates how frontal cortical neurons represent reward-predicting cues and reward history in mice during a classical conditioning task, finding that deep-layer neurons in dmFrC strongly encode these signals.

This paper demonstrates two-photon calcium imaging up to 1200 m below the cortical surface in mice, revealing higher reward prediction activity in the prelimbic area compared to the hippocampal CA1 region.