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Overview

Bruno B. Averbeck is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States and specializes in neuroscience. Their research spans several subfields including cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, molecular biology, and social psychology.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Prefrontal Cortex Predicts State Switches during Reversal Learning, 2020, Neuron
  • Reinforcement-learning in fronto-striatal circuits, 2021, Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Information-Limiting Correlations in Large Neural Populations, 2020, Journal of Neuroscience
  • Synaptic-like axo-axonal transmission from striatal cholinergic interneurons onto dopaminergic fibers, 2022, Neuron
  • Hypothalamic Interactions with Large-Scale Neural Circuits Underlying Reinforcement Learning and Motivated Behavior, 2020, Trends in Neurosciences

Their frequent co-authors include Mark A. G. Eldridge, Alex C. Cummins, Ramón Bartolo, Anya Plotnikova, and Arya Mohanty.

Publication venues where they have frequently contributed are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Neuron
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Biological Psychiatry

Main topics of their research focus on areas such as:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics

Best Publications

  • Neural correlations, population coding and computation

    Bruno B. Averbeck;Peter E. Latham;Alexandre Pouget

  • Parallel processing of serial movements in prefrontal cortex.

    Bruno B. Averbeck;Matthew V. Chafee;David A. Crowe;Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

  • Integration of Auditory and Visual Communication Information in the Primate Ventrolateral Prefrontal Cortex

    Tadashi Sugihara;Mark D. Diltz;Bruno B. Averbeck;Lizabeth M. Romanski

  • Learning and production of movement sequences: Behavioral, neurophysiological, and modeling perspectives

    Bradley J. Rhodes;Daniel Bullock;Willem B. Verwey;Bruno B. Averbeck

  • Reinforcement learning in artificial and biological systems

    Emre O. Neftci;Bruno B. Averbeck

  • Neural representation of vocalizations in the primate ventrolateral prefrontal cortex.

    Lizabeth M. Romanski;Bruno B. Averbeck;Mark Diltz

  • Effects of noise correlations on information encoding and decoding.

    Bruno B. Averbeck;Daeyeol Lee

  • Oxytocin by intranasal and intravenous routes reaches the cerebrospinal fluid in rhesus macaques: determination using a novel oxytocin assay

    M R Lee;K B Scheidweiler;X X Diao;F Akhlaghi

  • Dopamine modulates novelty seeking behavior during decision making.

    Vincent D. Costa;Valery L. Tran;Janita Turchi;Bruno B. Averbeck

  • Coding and transmission of information by neural ensembles

    Bruno B. Averbeck;Daeyeol Lee

  • CSF and Blood Oxytocin Concentration Changes following Intranasal Delivery in Macaque

    Olga Dal Monte;Olga Dal Monte;Pamela L. Noble;Janita Turchi;Alex Cummins

  • Neurophysiological effects of acute oxytocin administration: systematic review and meta-analysis of placebo-controlled imaging studies

    Rebekah Wigton;Joaquim Radua;Paul Allen;Bruno Averbeck

  • The Primate Cortical Auditory System and Neural Representation of Conspecific Vocalizations

    Lizabeth M. Romanski;Bruno B. Averbeck

  • Action selection and action value in frontal-striatal circuits.

    Moonsang Seo;Eunjeong Lee;Bruno B. Averbeck

  • Estimates of Projection Overlap and Zones of Convergence within Frontal-Striatal Circuits

    Bruno B. Averbeck;Julia Lehman;Moriah Jacobson;Suzanne N. Haber

  • Motivational neural circuits underlying reinforcement learning.

    Bruno B Averbeck;Vincent D Costa

  • Reversal Learning and Dopamine: A Bayesian Perspective

    Vincent D. Costa;Valery L. Tran;Janita Turchi;Bruno B. Averbeck

  • Activity in prefrontal cortex during dynamic selection of action sequences.

    Bruno B Averbeck;Jeong-Woo Sohn;Daeyeol Lee

  • Emotion recognition and oxytocin in patients with schizophrenia.

    B. B. Averbeck;T. Bobin;S. Evans;S. S. Shergill

  • The statistical neuroanatomy of frontal networks in the macaque.

    Bruno B. Averbeck;Moonsang Seo

Frequent Co-Authors

Sean S. O'Sullivan
Sean S. O'Sullivan Cork University Hospital
Apostolos P. Georgopoulos
Apostolos P. Georgopoulos University of Minnesota
Sukhwinder S. Shergill
Sukhwinder S. Shergill King's College London
Elisabeth A. Murray
Elisabeth A. Murray National Institutes of Health
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Richard C. Saunders
Richard C. Saunders National Institutes of Health
Ellen Leibenluft
Ellen Leibenluft National Institutes of Health
Thomas Foltynie
Thomas Foltynie University College London
Peter Brown
Peter Brown University of Oxford
Patricia Limousin
Patricia Limousin University College London

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