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  1. Transcriptomic landscape of mammalian ventral pallidum at single-cell resolution

    Article • Science Advances, December 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  2. Taking Apart the Amygdala One Neuron At A Time

    Article • October 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  3. Contribution of amygdala to dynamic model arbitration under uncertainty

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  4. Motor System-Dependent Effects of Amygdala and Ventral Striatum Lesions on Explore–Exploit Behaviors

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, December 2023, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  5. The amygdala is not necessary for the familiarity aspect of recognition memory

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  6. Lesions to the mediodorsal thalamus but not orbitofrontal cortex enhance volatility beliefs linked to paranoia

    Article • October 2023, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  7. Electrophysiological Markers of Aberrant Cue-Specific Exploration in Hazardous Drinkers

    Article • Computational Psychiatry, July 2023, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  8. Adverse childhood experiences and hormonal contraception: Interactive impact on sexual reward function

    Article • PLOS One, January 2023, PLOS

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  9. What Does the Frontopolar Cortex Contribute to Goal-Directed Cognition and Action?

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, November 2022, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  10. Correction to: Fluoxetine incentivizes ventral striatum encoding of reward and punishment

    Article • Neuropsychopharmacology, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  11. Differential coding of goals and actions in ventral and dorsal corticostriatal circuits during goal-directed behavior

    Article • Cell Reports, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  12. Entropy-based metrics for predicting choice behavior based on local response to reward

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  13. Adolescent Dopamine Neurons Represent Reward Differently during Action and State Guided Learning

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, October 2021, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  14. Fluoxetine incentivizes ventral striatum encoding of reward and punishment

    Article • Neuropsychopharmacology, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  15. Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization

    Article • Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, April 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  16. Anterior cingulate and putamen neurons flexibly learn whether a hot dog is a sandwich

    Article • Neuron, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  17. A pragmatic reevaluation of the efficacy of nonhuman primate optogenetics for psychiatry

    Article • December 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  18. Effects of Amygdala Lesions on Object-Based Versus Action-Based Learning in Macaques

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, September 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  19. Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization

    Article • July 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  20. Anterior insula activation to threat cues predicts fear of going to the dentist

    Article • Journal of Affective Disorders, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  21. Aversive perception in a threat context: Separate and independent neural activation

    Article • Biological Psychology, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  22. Prefrontal Regulation of Punished Ethanol Self-administration

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  23. Primate Orbitofrontal Cortex Codes Information Relevant for Managing Explore–Exploit Tradeoffs

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, February 2020, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  24. Directional interconnectivity of the human amygdala, fusiform gyrus, and orbitofrontal cortex in emotional scene perception

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, October 2019, American Physiological Society

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  25. Of Pathways, Processes, and Orbitofrontal Cortex

    Article • Neuron, August 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  26. To explore or exploit? Your amygdala will decide.

    Article • Neuron, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  27. Cross-species convergence in pupillary response: understanding human anxiety via non-human primate amygdala lesion

    Article • Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, June 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa, David Pagliaccio

  28. Ventral striatum’s role in learning from gains and losses

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2018, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  29. Effects of Ventral Striatum Lesions on Stimulus-Based versus Action-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, June 2017, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  30. Motivational neural circuits underlying reinforcement learning

    Article • Nature Neuroscience, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  31. There is more to the amygdala than emotion

    Article • Neuron, October 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  32. Learned Value Shapes Responses to Objects in Frontal and Ventral Stream Networks in Macaque Monkeys

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, May 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  33. Blocking serotonin but not dopamine reuptake alters neural processing during perceptual decision making.

    Article • Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  34. More than Meets the Eye: the Relationship between Pupil Size and Locus Coeruleus Activity

    Article • Neuron, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  35. Amygdala lesions in rhesus macaques decrease attention to threat

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2015, Nature

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  36. Selective looking at natural scenes: Hedonic content and gender

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  37. What Brain Regions are Important for Instantiating Beliefs About Reward Stability?

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, August 2015, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  38. Reversal Learning and Dopamine: A Bayesian Perspective

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, February 2015, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  39. Imaging distributed and massed repetitions of natural scenes: Spontaneous retrieval and maintenance

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  40. Tell Me What to Fear and When to Fear It

    Article • Psychophysiology, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  41. Looking into the future

    Article • eLife, May 2014, eLife

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  42. Dopamine Increases Curiosity

    Article • Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  43. Oxytocin Redirects Attention to the Eyes

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2014, Frontiers

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  44. How the Brain Stops Dithering and Decides

    Article • Cerebral Cortex, October 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  45. Do brain responses to emotional images and cigarette cues differ? An fMRI study in smokers

    Article • European Journal of Neuroscience, November 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  46. Tagging cortical networks in emotion: A topographical analysis

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  47. Scan patterns when viewing natural scenes: Emotion, complexity, and repetition

    Article • Psychophysiology, June 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  48. Threat of suffocation and defensive reflex activation

    Article • Psychophysiology, February 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  49. Imagining Pleasure and Pain in the Brain

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, August 2010, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  50. The Timing of Emotional Discrimination in Human Amygdala and Ventral Visual Cortex

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, November 2009, Society for Neuroscience

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  51. Pleasure Rather Than Salience Activates Human Nucleus Accumbens and Medial Prefrontal Cortex

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, September 2007, American Physiological Society

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa