Marcus Stephenson‐Jones

This paper models dopaminergic signals linked to habit formation using temporal-difference action learning, showing that action prediction errors better represent striatal dopamine activity than reward prediction errors.

This study identifies a movement-based dopamine signal in mice that acts as a value-free teaching signal for learning sound-action associations, working alongside reward prediction error.

The paper identifies that most ventral pallidal cholinergic neurons are bursting basal forebrain cholinergic neurons with specific connectivity to reinforcement circuits.

The paper shows that replay of procedural memory during sleep occurs in the dorsal striatum and is independent of the hippocampus.

Repix enables reliable, reusable, and versatile chronic Neuropixels recordings in unrestrained animals over months, with minimal user training and high stability.

This study shows that GABAergic and glutamatergic ventral pallidal neurons control opposing motivational behaviors in mice by encoding positive and negative motivational value.