Lung-Hao Tai

The paper compares task information encoding in adolescent and adult mouse frontal cortex, finding stronger population-level encoding in adolescents despite similar single-cell encoding.

The paper investigates reinforcement learning in male and female mice with ASD-linked mutations, finding enhanced learning in males but not females, with effects modulated by reward uncertainty.

This study shows adolescent and adult mice use both reinforcement learning and short-term memory strategies to learn a conditional odor association task, with no developmental difference in learning rates but increased reliance on perseverative strategies in males.