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3493
National Ranking
1967

Overview

Mark S. Goldman is affiliated with the University of South Florida in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Neuroscience with significant work also contributed to Engineering.

The scientist's subfields of study include:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Molecular Biology
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

Main topics of their research cover:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Advanced Memory and Neural Computing
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Retinal Development and Disorders
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Vestibular and auditory disorders
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms

The scientist has published extensively, with works appearing frequently in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Reports, Nature Neuroscience, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Current Biology.

Recent papers include:

  • "Choice-selective sequences dominate in cortical relative to thalamic inputs to NAc to support reinforcement learning," 2022, Cell Reports
  • "Predicting modular functions and neural coding of behavior from a synaptic wiring diagram," 2024, Nature Neuroscience
  • "Cyclic structure with cellular precision in a vertebrate sensorimotor neural circuit," 2023, Current Biology
  • "Oculomotor plant and neural dynamics suggest gaze control requires integration on distributed timescales," 2022, The Journal of Physiology
  • "Interactions between circuit architecture and plasticity in a closed-loop cerebellar system," 2024, eLife

Collaborations are a significant part of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Emre Aksay
  • Brandon J. Bhasin
  • Jennifer L Raymond
  • Celia David
  • Amy Sterling

Best Publications

  • Expectations of Reinforcement from Alcohol: Their Domain and Relation to Drinking Patterns.

    Sandra A. Brown;Mark S. Goldman;Andres Inn;Lynn R. Anderson

  • The Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire: an instrument for the assessment of adolescent and adult alcohol expectancies.

    Sandra A. Brown;Bruce A. Christiansen;Mark S. Goldman

  • Using alcohol expectancies to predict adolescent drinking behavior after one year.

    Bruce A. Christiansen;Gregory T. Smith;Patricia V. Roehling;Mark S. Goldman

  • Expectancy challenge and drinking reduction : experimental evidence for a mediational process

    Jack Darkes;Mark S. Goldman

  • Development of alcohol-related expectancies in adolescents: separating pharmacological from social-learning influences.

    Bruce A. Christiansen;Mark S. Goldman;Andres Inn

  • Expectancy theory - Thinking about Drinking

    Mark S Goldman;S. A. Brown;B. A. Christiansen

  • Up close and personal: temporal variability in the drinking of individual college students during their first year.

    Frances K. Del Boca;Jack Darkes;Paul E. Greenbaum;Mark S. Goldman

  • Expectancy for social facilitation from drinking: The divergent paths of high-expectancy and low-expectancy adolescents.

    Gregory T. Smith;Mark S. Goldman;Paul E. Greenbaum;Bruce A. Christiansen

  • Alcohol expectancy theory: The application of cognitive neuroscience

    Mark S Goldman;Frances K. Del Boca;Jack Darkes

  • Alcoholism and memory: broadening the scope of alcohol-expectancy research.

    Mark S. Goldman;Sandra A. Brown;Bruce A. Christiansen;Gregory T. Smith

  • Do alcohol expectancies mediate drinking patterns of adults

    Sandra A. Brown;Mark S. Goldman;Bruce A. Christiansen

  • Alcohol-Related Expectancies versus Demographic/Background Variables in the Prediction of Adolescent Drinking.

    Bruce A. Christiansen;Mark S. Goldman

  • Emergence of alcohol expectancies in childhood: a possible critical period.

    P. G. Miller;G. T. Smith;Mark S. Goldman

  • Expectancy challenge and drinking reduction: process and structure in the alcohol expectancy network.

    Jack Darkes;Mark S. Goldman

  • The college and noncollege experience: a review of the factors that influence drinking behavior in young adulthood.

    Ashlee C. Carter;Karen Obremski Brandon;Mark S. Goldman

  • Variation in the drinking trajectories of freshmen college students

    Paul E. Greenbaum;Frances K. Del Boca;Jack Darkes;Chen pin Wang

  • Age and Drinking-Related Differences in the Memory Organization of Alcohol Expectancies in 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th Grade Children

    Michael E. Dunn;Mark S. Goldman

  • Self-reported drinking and alcohol-related problems among early adolescents: dimensionality and validity over 24 months

    Gregory T. Smith;Denis M. McCarthy;Mark S. Goldman

  • Empirical modeling of an alcohol expectancy memory network in elementary school children as a function of grade.

    Michael E. Dunn;Mark S. Goldman

  • Adolescents are not adults: developmental considerations in alcohol users.

    Deborah Deas;Paula Riggs;James Langenbucher;Mark S Goldman

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul E. Greenbaum
Paul E. Greenbaum University of South Florida
Gregory T. Smith
Gregory T. Smith University of Kentucky
Sandra A. Brown
Sandra A. Brown University of California, San Diego
Emanuel Donchin
Emanuel Donchin University of South Florida
James MacKillop
James MacKillop McMaster University
David J. Drobes
David J. Drobes University of South Florida
Mark A. Ferro
Mark A. Ferro University of Waterloo
Kenneth J. Sher
Kenneth J. Sher University of Missouri
Peter E. Nathan
Peter E. Nathan University of Iowa
Sara Jo Nixon
Sara Jo Nixon University of Florida

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