Mulugeta Semework

The paper compares somatosensory cortical responses from natural touch and microstimulation in macaques' ventral posterior lateral thalamus, showing high correlation between the two.

The paper shows that reward prediction errors are encoded in population-level activity of prefrontal and parietal neurons through opponent organization, enabling decoding of signed and unsigned RPEs.

This study identifies mid-lateral cerebellar Purkinje cells as providing an error signal during visuomotor association learning in monkeys, which decreases with improved performance.

This study investigates how reward uncertainty affects neural activity in monkey fronto-parietal areas, showing distinct cellular and network-level responses.

The paper shows that Purkinje cells in the mid-lateral cerebellum change their activity when monkeys learn new visuomotor associations, despite unchanged movement kinematics.

The paper shows that neurons in the lateral intraparietal area of monkeys respond to spatial memory of stimuli, indicating access to a craniotopic representation of space.