Francisco Pereira

This study identifies D2R+ neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus as critical for interoceptive predictions and behavior guided by physiological states.

This paper introduces a statistical framework for analyzing trial-level temporal dynamics in fiber photometry experiments, revealing previously obscured effects in dopamine responses to reward.

This paper validates the neural representations of Deep RL agents against animal neural data, showing similar geometry in latent spaces and the role of temporal information.