Emiliano Merlo

The paper tests how human goal-directed behavior responds to interventions disrupting action-outcome contingencies, finding that behavior remains sensitive to outcome value despite these interventions.

This study introduces a no-timeout self-administration procedure to better mimic human heroin use patterns in rats, showing it alters heroin intake and social behavior but not cocaine use.

This study identifies limbo as an evolutionary conserved memory process that separates reconsolidation from extinction based on the number of conditioned stimulus presentations in crabs.

This study investigates neural dynamics during human sleep-learning, finding delta and sigma activity in early stages and theta activity in later stages of associative learning.