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Amir Lawen

Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior InstituteORCID 0000-0002-2812-7770Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintOct 15, 2026

Tasting from memory: reconstructing taste from visual cues in the human brain

Shai Berman, Amir Lawen, Sharon Xu…·Daphna Shohamy A

This study investigates how the brain retrieves taste memories from visual cues, finding that taste memory is represented in lateral parietal cortex rather than gustatory cortex.

DOI 10.64898/2026.10.08.757687

humanimaging

NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintJul 20, 2025

Dopamine release effects on striatal blood oxygenation and whole brain plasticity underlying associative learning

Amir Lawen, Isabella Succi, Daniela Lichtman…·Itamar Kahn

This study shows that dopamine release dynamics in the nucleus accumbens correlate with blood oxygenation responses during associative learning, revealing a link between dopamine signaling and brain-wide plasticity.

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mouseimaging