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55
Citations
18849
World Ranking
4624
National Ranking
2085

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Naoshige Uchida is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in neuroscience, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, cellular and molecular neuroscience, molecular biology, cell biology, and artificial intelligence.

Their research topics include:

  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Neurotransmitter receptor influence on behavior
  • Receptor mechanisms and signaling
  • Neuroscience and neuropharmacology research
  • Neural and behavioral psychology studies
  • EEG and brain-computer interfaces
  • Memory and neural mechanisms

Naoshige Uchida has contributed numerous papers, with recent publications including:

  • "A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning," 2020, Nature
  • "A Unified Framework for Dopamine Signals across Timescales," 2020, Cell
  • "Spontaneous behaviour is structured by reinforcement without explicit reward," 2023, Nature
  • "Reinforcement biases subsequent perceptual decisions when confidence is low, a widespread behavioral phenomenon," 2020, eLife
  • "Distinct temporal difference error signals in dopamine axons in three regions of the striatum in a decision-making task," 2020, eLife

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida
  • Iku Tsutsui-Kimura
  • Sara Matias
  • Sandra Romero Pinto
  • Scott W. Linderman

Naoshige Uchida has published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Neuron
  • Nature Neuroscience
  • eLife

The scientist was awarded a Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Neuron-type-specific signals for reward and punishment in the ventral tegmental area

    Jeremiah Yaacov Cohen;Sebastian Haesler;Linh Vong;Bradford Barr Lowell

  • Whole-Brain Mapping of Direct Inputs to Midbrain Dopamine Neurons

    Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida;Lisa Zhu;Sachie K. Ogawa;Archana Vamanrao

  • 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

  • Speed and accuracy of olfactory discrimination in the rat

    Naoshige Uchida;Zachary F Mainen

  • Demixed principal component analysis of neural population data

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

  • An Excitatory Paraventricular Nucleus to AgRP Neuron Circuit That Drives Hunger

    Michael J. Krashes;Michael J. Krashes;Bhavik P. Shah;Bhavik P. Shah;Joseph C. Madara;David P. Olson;David P. Olson

  • The catenin/cadherin adhesion system is localized in synaptic junctions bordering transmitter release zones.

    Naoshige Uchida;Yasuko Honjo;Keith R. Johnson;Margaret J. Wheelock

  • Odor maps in the mammalian olfactory bulb: domain organization and odorant structural features

    Naoshige Uchida;Yuji K. Takahashi;Manabu Tanifuji;Kensaku Mori

  • A distributional code for value in dopamine-based reinforcement learning

    Will Dabney;Zeb Kurth-Nelson;Naoshige Uchida;Clara Kwon Starkweather

  • Neural Circuitry of Reward Prediction Error

    Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida;Neir Eshel;Neir Eshel;Naoshige Uchida

  • Functional circuit architecture underlying parental behaviour.

    Johannes Kohl;Benedicte M. Babayan;Nimrod D. Rubinstein;Anita E. Autry

  • Arithmetic and local circuitry underlying dopamine prediction errors

    Neir Eshel;Michael Bukwich;Vinod Rao;Vivian Hemmelder

  • α-Catenin-Vinculin Interaction Functions to Organize the Apical Junctional Complex in Epithelial Cells

    Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida;Naoshige Uchida;Yuzo Imamura;Akira Nagafuchi

  • Serotonergic neurons signal reward and punishment on multiple timescales

    Jeremiah Y Cohen;Mackenzie W Amoroso;Naoshige Uchida

  • The Sniff as a Unit of Olfactory Processing

    Adam Kepecs;Naoshige Uchida;Zachary F. Mainen

  • Dopamine neurons projecting to the posterior striatum reinforce avoidance of threatening stimuli

    William Menegas;Korleki Akiti;Ryunosuke Amo;Naoshige Uchida

  • Dopamine neurons share common response function for reward prediction error

    Neir Eshel;Ju Tian;Michael Anthony Bukwich;Naoshige Uchida

  • A Unified Framework for Dopamine Signals across Timescales

    HyungGoo R. Kim;Athar N. Malik;John G. Mikhael;Pol Bech

  • Representation of Spatial Goals in Rat Orbitofrontal Cortex

    Claudia E. Feierstein;Claudia E. Feierstein;Michael C. Quirk;Naoshige Uchida;Dara L. Sosulski

  • Robust odor coding via inhalation-coupled transient activity in the mammalian olfactory bulb.

    Kevin M. Cury;Naoshige Uchida

  • Odor Representations in Olfactory Cortex: Distributed Rate Coding and Decorrelated Population Activity

    Keiji Miura;Zachary F. Mainen;Naoshige Uchida;Naoshige Uchida

  • Synchronized oscillatory discharges of mitral/tufted cells with different molecular receptive ranges in the rabbit olfactory bulb.

    Hideki Kashiwadani;Yasnory F. Sasaki;Naoshige Uchida;Kensaku Mori

Frequent Co-Authors

Zachary F. Mainen
Zachary F. Mainen Champalimaud Foundation
Adam Kepecs
Adam Kepecs Washington University in St. Louis
Samuel J. Gershman
Samuel J. Gershman Harvard University
Yulong Li
Yulong Li Peking University
Kensaku Mori
Kensaku Mori University of Tokyo
Bradford B. Lowell
Bradford B. Lowell Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Tobias H. Donner
Tobias H. Donner Universität Hamburg
Christos Constantinidis
Christos Constantinidis Vanderbilt University
Ranulfo Romo
Ranulfo Romo National Autonomous University of Mexico

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