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Overview

Alfredo Fontanini is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of neuroscience and nursing, with a significant focus on sensory systems and nutrition and dietetics. The scholar's work also extends into biomedical engineering, cognitive neuroscience, and cellular and molecular neuroscience.

The scientist's research topics include olfactory and sensory function studies, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, advanced chemical sensor technologies, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, neural dynamics and brain function, receptor mechanisms and signaling, and photoreceptor and optogenetics research.

Fontanini has contributed publications to various frequent venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Science Advances
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Recent publications showcase a focus on gustatory processing and sensory mechanisms. Selected papers include:

  • Spatially Distributed Representation of Taste Quality in the Gustatory Insular Cortex of Behaving Mice (2020, Current Biology)
  • Dynamic Representation of Taste-Related Decisions in the Gustatory Insular Cortex of Mice (2020, Current Biology)
  • NIH Workshop Report: sensory nutrition and disease (2020, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)
  • LTD at amygdalocortical synapses as a novel mechanism for hedonic learning (2020, eLife)
  • Experience-dependent plasticity of gustatory insular cortex circuits and taste preferences (2023, Science Advances)

Frequent collaborators in research activities include Arianna Maffei, Joshua F. Kogan, Ke Chen, Lindsey A. Czarnecki, and Giancarlo La Camera. These coauthors have multiple joint publications, reflecting ongoing collaborative work in related areas.

Best Publications

  • Natural stimuli evoke dynamic sequences of states in sensory cortical ensembles

    Lauren M. Jones;Alfredo Fontanini;Brian F. Sadacca;Paul Miller

  • Behavioral States, Network States, and Sensory Response Variability

    Alfredo Fontanini;Donald B. Katz

  • Ketamine-Xylazine-Induced Slow (< 1.5 Hz) Oscillations in the Rat Piriform (Olfactory) Cortex Are Functionally Correlated with Respiration

    Alfredo Fontanini;PierFranco Spano;James M. Bower

  • Effects of cue-triggered expectation on cortical processing of taste

    Chad L. Samuelsen;Matthew P.H. Gardner;Alfredo Fontanini

  • Learning-Related Plasticity of Temporal Coding in Simultaneously Recorded Amygdala–Cortical Ensembles

    Stephen E Grossman;Alfredo Fontanini;Jeffrey S Wieskopf;Donald B Katz

  • Dynamics of multistable states during ongoing and evoked cortical activity.

    Luca Mazzucato;Alfredo Fontanini;Giancarlo La Camera

  • Stimuli Reduce the Dimensionality of Cortical Activity

    Luca Mazzucato;Alfredo Fontanini;Giancarlo La Camera

  • State-dependent modulation of time-varying gustatory responses.

    Alfredo Fontanini;Donald B. Katz

  • Distinct Subtypes of Basolateral Amygdala Taste Neurons Reflect Palatability and Reward

    Alfredo Fontanini;Stephen E. Grossman;Joshua A. Figueroa;Donald B. Katz

  • Slow-waves in the olfactory system: an olfactory perspective on cortical rhythms

    Alfredo Fontanini;James M. Bower

  • Neural processing of gustatory information in insular circuits.

    Arianna Maffei;Melissa Haley;Alfredo Fontanini

  • Processing of Hedonic and Chemosensory Features of Taste in Medial Prefrontal and Insular Networks

    Ahmad Jezzini;Luca Mazzucato;Giancarlo La Camera;Alfredo Fontanini

  • Network homeostasis: a matter of coordination

    Arianna Maffei;Alfredo Fontanini

  • Central role for the insular cortex in mediating conditioned responses to anticipatory cues

    Ikue Kusumoto-Yoshida;Haixin Liu;Billy T. Chen;Alfredo Fontanini

  • Associative learning changes cross-modal representations in the gustatory cortex

    Roberto Vincis;Alfredo Fontanini

  • Spatially Distributed Representation of Taste Quality in the Gustatory Insular Cortex of Behaving Mice

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  • Encoding and Tracking of Outcome-Specific Expectancy in the Gustatory Cortex of Alert Rats

    Matthew P.H. Gardner;Alfredo Fontanini

  • Gustatory processing: a dynamic systems approach.

    Lauren M Jones;Alfredo Fontanini;Donald B Katz

  • Dynamic Representation of Taste-Related Decisions in the Gustatory Insular Cortex of Mice

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  • Processing of Intraoral Olfactory and Gustatory Signals in the Gustatory Cortex of Awake Rats.

    Chad L. Samuelsen;Alfredo Fontanini

  • 7 to 12 Hz activity in rat gustatory cortex reflects disengagement from a fluid self-administration task.

    Alfredo Fontanini;Donald B. Katz

  • Amygdala Stimulation Evokes Time-Varying Synaptic Responses in the Gustatory Cortex of Anesthetized Rats

    Martha E Stone;Arianna Maffei;Alfredo Fontanini

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald B. Katz
Donald B. Katz Brandeis University
James M. Bower
James M. Bower The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Antonello Bonci
Antonello Bonci National Institute on Drug Abuse
Claire Murphy
Claire Murphy San Diego State University
Nirupa Chaudhari
Nirupa Chaudhari University of Miami
Mark Lyte
Mark Lyte Iowa State University
Christiane Linster
Christiane Linster Cornell University
Nancy Kopell
Nancy Kopell Boston University
Catia Sternini
Catia Sternini University of California, Los Angeles
Alan C. Spector
Alan C. Spector Florida State University

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