Sara E. Keefer

This study identifies distinct population coding patterns in the anterior insular cortex of sign- and goal-tracking rats during reward epochs, despite equivalent conditioned responding.

This study shows that CB1R signaling in the dorsomedial striatum affects Pavlovian outcome devaluation and inhibitory synaptic transmission, with sex differences observed in these effects.

This study shows that specific neuronal ensembles in the basolateral amygdala are required for updating cue values during reversal learning.

The paper shows that inhibiting the BLA to aIC pathway makes sign-tracking rats sensitive to outcome devaluation while leaving goal-tracking rats unaffected, highlighting individual differences in Pavlovian behavior.

This study shows that BLA-NAc projections differentially affect flexibility in sign- and goal-tracking rats during outcome devaluation.