Aaron P. Blaisdell

A special role for anterior cingulate cortex, but not orbitofrontal cortex or basolateral amygdala, in choices involving information

The paper shows that anterior cingulate cortex inhibition disrupts information-based choice preference in female rats, suggesting a sex-dependent role for ACC in decision-making involving information.

Visual Perception of 3D Space and Shape In Time - Part IV: 3D Shape Recognition by 3D Rotation

This paper investigates how humans recognize 3D faces with arbitrary orientation by measuring reaction times and proposes a model linking mental rotation to alpha brainwave phase.

Visual Perception of 3D Space and Shape in Time - Part I: 2D Space Perception by 2D Linear Translation

The paper introduces the NHT model to explain how stable allocentric space perception is maintained through time-coded neural processes, supported by reaction time experiments showing eccentricity-dependent delays.

Visual Perception of 3D Space and Shape in Time - Part III: 2D Shape Recognition by Log-Scaling

The paper tests a model of mental scaling using reaction times to recognize faces of varying sizes, finding RT increases proportional to log-scale scaling factors and consistent with depth perception.

Visual Perception of 3D Space and Shape in Time - Part II: 3D Space Perception with Holographic Depth

The paper develops models to explain 3D space perception using time signals and tests them with reaction time experiments showing distance-dependent delays.

"Learning in reverse: Dopamine errors drive excitatory and inhibitory components of backward conditioning in an outcome-specific manner".

This paper investigates whether dopamine signals are involved in backward conditioning, showing that optogenetic inhibition of VTADA neurons disrupts both excitatory and inhibitory components of this learning.