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Abstraction of Reward Context Facilitates Relative Reward Coding in Neural Populations of the Macaque Anterior Cingulate Cortex doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO… #neuroscience

For those not able to make CCN in-person, we’re live-streaming this year’s keynotes and contributed talks at youtube.com/@cognitivecomp…

Thrilled and proud to announce that Shira Lupkin's paper on monkey gaze biases in economic choice is now available at eLife - the journal ~and~ is highlighted in an eLife Science Digest. Congrats on a job well done Shira!🥳 elifesciences.org/digests/78205/…

#JNeurosci: Results from Jonathan Chien, Wallis, and Erin Rich Friedman Brain Institute suggest that rather than linking goals to actions, the monkey anterior cingulate cortex is more involved in context-setting and relative interpretation of outcomes. jneurosci.org/lookup/DOI/10.…

Trainees - sign up for the Frontal Cortex GRS with Shana Silverstein and Julia Mitchell, PhD and then stay for what is going to be a life-changing GRC. Speaker list and details coming soon. Watch this space...

Happy to see this paper come together! The study has a really cool task design that helped us understand the processes involved in multi-attribute decisions. Excellent work by Aster Q. Perkins and Zach Gillis!

Society for Neuroscience (SfN) come check out our lab presentations at #SfN23 and see how (pre)frontal functions in social identity, decision making, and cognitive strategy! Erin Rich @JoeSimonIV Aster Q. Perkins Chiang, F-K 江峰逵 and Sam McConnell

Anterior cingulate cortex neurons in macaques encode social image identities biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Excited to share some new results, out just in time for the tail end of SfN! This is our dive into social neuroscience, led by @JoeSimonIV

If you're still in DC, wrap up your SfN with our minisyposium on prefrontal decoding!

Distinct roles of monkey OFC-subcortical pathways in adaptive behavior biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨New paper alert from grad student Andrew Mah🚨 How do rats compute the value of their environment to guide their choices? nature.com/articles/s4146…

The Journal of Neuroscience implements open peer review:

Broadening the Scope of JNeurosci's Content jneurosci.org/content/44/2/e…

TODAY, Friday, January 26, 2024 at 1:00 PM ➡ SHOW YOUR SUPPORT! JOIN US & Mentor Dr. Erin Rich as @JoeSimonIV presents his DISSERTATION DEFENSE 👏🎉 BE THERE ➡ Live in Hatch Auditorium CONGRATULATIONS & GOOD LUCK Joseph! #FriedmanBrainInstitute #NashNeuroscience

Save the date! Sept 17 2024 for the Inaugural Symposium of Friedman Brain Institute's Lipschultz Cognitive Neuroscience Center, which will highlight the outstanding efforts underway in the NY metropolitan area to understand the neural circuit mechanisms of higher cognitive function. RSVP now!

Our comparative MAPseq study is out at Current Biology today! tl;dr: the organization of BLA projections to frontal cortex is different between macaques and mice cell.com/current-biolog…

For anyone like me who enjoys geeking out over behavioral tasks, our new paper is out! Also important implications for mechanisms of value-based decisions. With Aster Q. Perkins and Zach Gillis direct.mit.edu/jocn/article/d…

It's finally out, on Joe's last day in the lab before heading off to postdoc! We asked whether a putative "social" brain area does anything unique with social cues when they're not used for any social reasoning. Turns out it does! nature.com/articles/s4146…