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  • 2009 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Adam Kepecs is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with significant contributions to Cognitive Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Other subfields include Molecular Biology, Social Psychology, and Psychiatry and Mental Health.

The main topics addressed in Kepecs's work include:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
  • Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research

Kepecs's recent notable publications include:

  • "Roadmap for the Emerging Field of Cancer Neuroscience", 2020, Cell
  • "Striatal dopamine mediates hallucination-like perception in mice", 2021, Science
  • "Behavior- and Modality-General Representation of Confidence in Orbitofrontal Cortex", 2020, Cell
  • "Reinforcement biases subsequent perceptual decisions when confidence is low, a widespread behavioral phenomenon", 2020, eLife
  • "Distinct synchronization, cortical coupling and behavioral function of two basal forebrain cholinergic neuron types", 2020, Nature Neuroscience

Frequent co-authors associated with Adam Kepecs's research include:

  • Torben Ott
  • Paul Masset
  • Quentin Chevy
  • Katharina Schmack
  • Marion Bosc

Kepecs's work has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • Cell
  • Science
  • eLife

In 2009, Adam Kepecs was awarded the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Cortical interneurons that specialize in disinhibitory control

    Hyun Jae Pi;Balázs Hangya;Balázs Hangya;Duda Kvitsiani;Joshua I. Sanders

  • Interneuron cell types are fit to function

    Adam Kepecs;Gordon Fishell

  • A deep learning framework for neuroscience

    Blake A Richards;Timothy P Lillicrap;Philippe Beaudoin;Yoshua Bengio;Yoshua Bengio

  • Neural correlates, computation and behavioural impact of decision confidence

    Adam Kepecs;Naoshige Uchida;Naoshige Uchida;Hatim A. Zariwala;Hatim A. Zariwala;Zachary F. Mainen;Zachary F. Mainen

  • Demixed principal component analysis of neural population data

    Dmitry Kobak;Wieland Brendel;Wieland Brendel;Christos Constantinidis;Claudia E. Feierstein

  • Confidence and certainty: distinct probabilistic quantities for different goals.

    Alexandre Pouget;Jan Drugowitsch;Adam Kepecs

  • Distinct behavioural and network correlates of two interneuron types in prefrontal cortex

    D. Kvitsiani;S. Ranade;B. Hangya;H. Taniguchi;H. Taniguchi

  • Central Cholinergic Neurons Are Rapidly Recruited by Reinforcement Feedback.

    Balázs Hangya;Balázs Hangya;Sachin P. Ranade;Maja Lorenc;Adam Kepecs

  • The Sniff as a Unit of Olfactory Processing

    Adam Kepecs;Naoshige Uchida;Zachary F. Mainen

  • A computational framework for the study of confidence in humans and animals

    Adam Kepecs;Zachary F. Mainen

  • Model for a robust neural integrator

    Alexei A. Koulakov;Alexei A. Koulakov;Sridhar Raghavachari;Adam Kepecs;John E. Lisman

  • Signatures of a Statistical Computation in the Human Sense of Confidence

    Joshua I. Sanders;Balázs Hangya;Balázs Hangya;Adam Kepecs

  • Roadmap for the Emerging Field of Cancer Neuroscience

    Michelle Monje;Jeremy C. Borniger;Nisha J. D’Silva;Benjamin Deneen

  • Basic mechanisms for graded persistent activity: discrete attractors, continuous attractors, and dynamic representations.

    Carlos D Brody;Ranulfo Romo;Adam Kepecs

  • Seeing at a glance, smelling in a whiff: rapid forms of perceptual decision making.

    Naoshige Uchida;Adam Kepecs;Zachary F. Mainen

  • Bursting neurons signal input slope.

    Adam Kepecs;Xiao Jing Wang;John Lisman

  • Orbitofrontal Cortex Is Required for Optimal Waiting Based on Decision Confidence

    Armin Lak;Gil M. Costa;Erin Romberg;Alexei A. Koulakov

  • Rapid and Precise Control of Sniffing During Olfactory Discrimination in Rats

    Adam Kepecs;Naoshige Uchida;Zachary F. Mainen

  • Striatal dopamine mediates hallucination-like perception in mice

    K. Schmack;M. Bosc;T. Ott;J. F. Sturgill

  • Information encoding and computation with spikes and bursts.

    Adam Kepecs;John Lisman

  • Frontal cortex neuron types categorically encode single decision variables.

    Junya Hirokawa;Alexander Vaughan;Paul Masset;Paul Masset;Paul Masset;Torben Ott

Frequent Co-Authors

Zachary F. Mainen
Zachary F. Mainen Champalimaud Foundation
Naoshige Uchida
Naoshige Uchida Harvard University
Michal Lipson
Michal Lipson Columbia University
John E. Lisman
John E. Lisman Brandeis University
Michael S. Okun
Michael S. Okun University of Florida
Matteo Carandini
Matteo Carandini University College London
Attila I. Gulyás
Attila I. Gulyás Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Loren M. Frank
Loren M. Frank University of California, San Francisco
Quentin J. M. Huys
Quentin J. M. Huys University College London

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