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D-Index
45
Citations
18056
World Ranking
6795
National Ranking
2937

Overview

Joshua I. Gold is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States and specializes in neuroscience with a significant focus on cognitive neuroscience. Their research contributions span multiple subfields including general decision sciences, artificial intelligence, cellular and molecular neuroscience, and neurology.

Their work involves a variety of main topics such as:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • Decision-making and behavioral economics
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Neuroscience and music perception
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms

Joshua I. Gold has published extensively, with significant contributions appearing in journals such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, PLoS Computational Biology, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and Nature Communications. Among the recent papers, notable examples include:

  • "Pupil Size as a Window on Neural Substrates of Cognition" (2020) in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  • "The caudate nucleus contributes causally to decisions that balance reward and uncertain visual information" (2020) in eLife
  • "Pupil diameter encodes the idiosyncratic, cognitive complexity of belief updating" (2020) in eLife
  • "Context-dependent relationships between locus coeruleus firing patterns and coordinated neural activity in the anterior cingulate cortex" (2022) in eLife
  • "Functional brain network reconfiguration during learning in a dynamic environment" (2020) in Nature Communications

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Long Ding
  • Yunshu Fan
  • Ashwin G. Ramayya
  • Vivek Buch
  • Krešimir Josić́

Best Publications

  • The Neural Basis of Decision Making

    Joshua I. Gold;Michael N. Shadlen

  • Relationships between Pupil Diameter and Neuronal Activity in the Locus Coeruleus, Colliculi, and Cingulate Cortex.

    Siddhartha Joshi;Yin Li;Rishi M. Kalwani;Joshua I. Gold

  • Neural computations that underlie decisions about sensory stimuli

    Joshua I. Gold;Michael N. Shadlen

  • Rational regulation of learning dynamics by pupil-linked arousal systems

    Matthew R Nassar;Katherine M Rumsey;Robert C Wilson;Kinjan Parikh

  • Representation of a perceptual decision in developing oculomotor commands.

    Joshua I. Gold;Michael N. Shadlen

  • Neural correlates of perceptual learning in a sensory-motor, but not a sensory, cortical area.

    Chi-Tat Law;Joshua I Gold

  • Banburismus and the brain: decoding the relationship between sensory stimuli, decisions, and reward.

    Joshua I. Gold;Michael N. Shadlen

  • An approximately Bayesian delta-rule model explains the dynamics of belief updating in a changing environment

    Matthew R. Nassar;Robert C. Wilson;Benjamin Heasly;Joshua I. Gold

  • Pupil Size as a Window on Neural Substrates of Cognition.

    Siddhartha Joshi;Joshua I. Gold

  • Reinforcement learning can account for associative and perceptual learning on a visual-decision task

    Chi-Tat Law;Joshua I Gold

  • On the nature and use of models in network neuroscience

    Danielle S. Bassett;Perry Zurn;Joshua I. Gold

  • The Influence of Behavioral Context on the Representation of a Perceptual Decision in Developing Oculomotor Commands

    Joshua I. Gold;Michael N. Shadlen

  • Caudate encodes multiple computations for perceptual decisions.

    Long Ding;Joshua I. Gold

  • Functionally Dissociable Influences on Learning Rate in a Dynamic Environment

    Joseph T. McGuire;Matthew R. Nassar;Matthew R. Nassar;Joshua I. Gold;Joseph W. Kable

  • Neural Correlates of Perceptual Decision Making before, during, and after Decision Commitment in Monkey Frontal Eye Field

    Long Ding;Joshua I. Gold

  • Perceptual learning

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  • Normative evidence accumulation in unpredictable environments

    Christopher M Glaze;Joseph W Kable;Joshua I Gold

  • Distinct Representations of a Perceptual Decision and the Associated Oculomotor Plan in the Monkey Lateral Intraparietal Area

    Sharath Bennur;Joshua I. Gold

  • The Basal Ganglia’s Contributions to Perceptual Decision Making

    Long Ding;Joshua I. Gold

  • Bayesian online learning of the hazard rate in change-point problems

    Robert C. Wilson;Matthew R. Nassar;Joshua I. Gold

  • The Relative Influences of Priors and Sensory Evidence on an Oculomotor Decision Variable During Perceptual Learning

    Joshua I. Gold;Chi-Tat Law;Patrick Connolly;Sharath Bennur

Frequent Co-Authors

Joseph W. Kable
Joseph W. Kable University of Pennsylvania
Michael N. Shadlen
Michael N. Shadlen Columbia University
Danielle S. Bassett
Danielle S. Bassett University of Pennsylvania
Yale E. Cohen
Yale E. Cohen University of Pennsylvania
Eric I. Knudsen
Eric I. Knudsen Stanford University
Daniel M. Wolpert
Daniel M. Wolpert Columbia University
Theodore D. Satterthwaite
Theodore D. Satterthwaite University of Pennsylvania
Nikos K. Logothetis
Nikos K. Logothetis Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hauke R. Heekeren
Hauke R. Heekeren Universität Hamburg
Richard F. Betzel
Richard F. Betzel Indiana University

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