Donald B. Katz

The paper identifies two distinct classes of gaping behavior in rats, showing they are driven by different mechanisms related to taste-specific and generalized aversion.

This paper investigates cortico-amygdalar interactions during taste processing in rats, finding asymmetric reciprocal influences and showing that amygdala-cortical loops drive taste encoding and decision-making.

The paper identifies ingestion-related behaviors and links them to neural dynamics in gustatory cortex using EMG and machine learning.

This study examines how neural responses in the gustatory cortex change during initial exposure to novel tastes in rats, finding that early responses are less stereotyped and reliable than later ones.

The paper shows that individual taste preferences predict cortical taste dynamics but are modified by experience, demonstrating that taste processing changes with tasting experiences.

The paper shows that taste palatability changes across the estrous cycle in rats, with estradiol in the lateral hypothalamus modulating these changes.

The paper shows that benign taste experience increases cortical response reliability and discriminability in gustatory cortex during aversion conditioning to a novel taste.

This study shows that illness alters sensory cortical responses to tastes in rats, reducing response magnitudes and changing coding strategies to reflect a 'good-bad' perception of palatability.

The paper presents two neural circuit models for stay-switch decisions in foraging behavior, showing how hedonic and aversive stimuli influence decision timing and neural activity patterns.

This study shows that Stk11 knockout in BLA projection neurons disrupts taste aversion learning by altering the timing of taste response plasticity in gustatory cortex, not by eliminating plasticity itself.

The paper shows that perturbing BLA to GC projections alters GC taste response dynamics, specifically reducing palatability-related activity in the late epoch without affecting taste identity information.

This study shows that synaptic scaling is crucial for making associative memories specific, as blocking it leads to generalized aversion and prolonged synaptic strength increases in conditioned taste aversion memory.

This study investigates decision-making in mice by analyzing how cost and benefit parameters influence rationality, finding that cost parameters and sunk cost effects significantly contribute to suboptimal choices.

The paper shows that taste experience refines hippocampal place fields in rats, enhancing spatial representation of stimulus locations.

The paper records spiking activity in mouse gustatory cortex during taste stimulation, finding temporal coding of taste identity and palatability and no anatomical taste specialization.

The paper shows that inhibiting gustatory cortex at specific times during taste trials delays gaping, indicating that ensemble dynamics drive motor behavior.

This study investigates how hippocampal neurons in rats respond to taste stimuli and spatial contexts, finding that taste-responsive cells have less spatial specificity and that taste responses are context-dependent.

The paper investigates how incidental taste experience enhances later taste learning by identifying the gustatory cortex as a key neural site involved in this process.