Cayla E. Murphy

This study examines how dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens changes during naturalistic feeding, showing transient increases during food approach that diminish with ingestion and recover between meals.

This study shows mice can anticipate environmental changes during reward learning, with the medial frontal cortex playing a key role in estimating future change points.

This study shows that pupil size in mice playing a competitive game correlates with decision variables like choice, outcome, and value updating, but not action selection.