All Stories

  1. Retrograde transduction of dopaminergic cells in substantia nigra of rhesus monkey

    Article • January 2026, openRxiv

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  2. Erasable serum markers

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  3. Contribution of amygdala to dynamic model arbitration under uncertainty

    Article • Nature Communications, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  4. Transcriptomic diversity of amygdalar subdivisions across humans and nonhuman primates

    Article • Science Advances, September 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  5. Dissociable effects of curiosity and hedonic valence on reinforcement learning

    Article • June 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  6. Synthetic Serum Markers Enable Noninvasive Monitoring of Gene Expression in Primate Brains

    Article • June 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  7. 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

  8. Taking Apart the Amygdala One Neuron At A Time

    Article • October 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  9. Contribution of amygdala to dynamic model arbitration under uncertainty

    Article • September 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

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

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

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa, Dr. Katie Witkiewitz

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

    Article • PLOS One, January 2023, PLOS

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  15. 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

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

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

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. Fluoxetine incentivizes ventral striatum encoding of reward and punishment

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

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  21. Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization

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

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

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

    Article • Neuron, March 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

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

    Article • December 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  24. 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

  25. Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization

    Article • July 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  26. 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

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

    Article • Biological Psychology, July 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  28. Prefrontal Regulation of Punished Ethanol Self-administration

    Article • Biological Psychiatry, June 2020, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

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

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

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  30. 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

  31. Of Pathways, Processes, and Orbitofrontal Cortex

    Article • Neuron, August 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

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

    Article • Neuron, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  33. 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

  34. 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

  35. 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

  36. Motivational neural circuits underlying reinforcement learning

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

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  37. There is more to the amygdala than emotion

    Article • Neuron, October 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  38. 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

  39. 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

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

    Article • Neuron, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  41. Amygdala lesions in rhesus macaques decrease attention to threat

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2015, Nature

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

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

    Article • International Journal of Psychophysiology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

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

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

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  44. Reversal Learning and Dopamine: A Bayesian Perspective

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

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

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

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

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

    Article • Psychophysiology, September 2014, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  47. Looking into the future

    Article • eLife, May 2014, eLife

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  48. Dopamine Increases Curiosity

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

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  49. Oxytocin Redirects Attention to the Eyes

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroscience, January 2014, Frontiers

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  50. How the Brain Stops Dithering and Decides

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

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  51. 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

  52. Tagging cortical networks in emotion: A topographical analysis

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, September 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

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

    Article • Psychophysiology, June 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  54. Threat of suffocation and defensive reflex activation

    Article • Psychophysiology, February 2011, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  55. Imagining Pleasure and Pain in the Brain

    Article • Human Brain Mapping, August 2010, Wiley

    Dr. Vincent Daniel Costa

  56. 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

  57. 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