Zachary Mainen
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American neuroscientist
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Zachary Mainen's Degrees
- PhD Neurobiology University of California, San Francisco
- Bachelors Biology University of California, Santa Cruz
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Zachary F. Mainen is an American neuroscientist whose research focuses on the brain mechanisms of decision-making. Zachary Mainen moved to Lisbon, Portugal in 2007 and has been the Director of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal, since 2009. He is also leader of the Systems Neuroscience Lab and is the founding director of the International Doctoral Neuroscience Programme .
Zachary Mainen's Published Works
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Published Works
- Reliability of spike timing in neocortical neurons. (1995) (1668)
- Influence of dendritic structure on firing pattern in model neocortical neurons (1996) (1246)
- Neural correlates, computation and behavioural impact of decision confidence (2008) (730)
- Speed and accuracy of olfactory discrimination in the rat (2003) (668)
- Synthesis of models for excitable membranes, synaptic transmission and neuromodulation using a common kinetic formalism (1994) (525)
- Sparse optical microstimulation in barrel cortex drives learned behaviour in freely moving mice (2008) (519)
- An Efficient Method for Computing Synaptic Conductances Based on a Kinetic Model of Receptor Binding (1994) (485)
- A model of spike initiation in neocortical pyramidal neurons (1995) (445)
- Estimating intracellular calcium concentrations and buffering without wavelength ratioing. (2000) (401)
- LTP mechanisms: from silence to four-lane traffic (2000) (396)
- Early events in olfactory processing. (2006) (384)
- Demixed principal component analysis of neural population data (2016) (324)
- Synaptic calcium transients in single spines indicate that NMDA receptors are not saturated (1999) (319)
- The sniff as a unit of olfactory processing. (2006) (290)
- Representation of Spatial Goals in Rat Orbitofrontal Cortex (2006) (252)
- The Functional Microarchitecture of the Mouse Barrel Cortex (2007) (235)
- Seeing at a glance, smelling in a whiff: rapid forms of perceptual decision making (2006) (226)
- Big behavioral data: psychology, ethology and the foundations of neuroscience (2014) (221)
- A computational framework for the study of confidence in humans and animals (2012) (219)
- Neural antecedents of self-initiated actions in secondary motor cortex (2014) (217)
- Confidence as Bayesian Probability: From Neural Origins to Behavior (2015) (208)
- Odor Representations in Olfactory Cortex: Distributed Rate Coding and Decorrelated Population Activity (2012) (194)
- Two-photon imaging in living brain slices. (1999) (180)
- Rapid and precise control of sniffing during olfactory discrimination in rats. (2007) (180)
- Mechanisms of Lateral Inhibition in the Olfactory Bulb: Efficiency and Modulation of Spike-Evoked Calcium Influx into Granule Cells (2003) (180)
- Transient firing of dorsal raphe neurons encodes diverse and specific sensory, motor, and reward events. (2009) (168)
- Orbitofrontal Cortex Is Required for Optimal Waiting Based on Decision Confidence (2014) (164)
- Activation of Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons Promotes Waiting but Is Not Reinforcing (2015) (162)
- Dendrodendritic Synaptic Signals in Olfactory Bulb Granule Cells: Local Spine Boost and Global Low-Threshold Spike (2005) (162)
- Balanced activity in basal ganglia projection pathways is critical for contraversive movements (2014) (158)
- Activity patterns of serotonin neurons underlying cognitive flexibility (2017) (147)
- Neural Substrates of Sensory-Guided Locomotor Decisions in the Rat Superior Colliculus (2008) (140)
- Sensory-Evoked Intrinsic Optical Signals in the Olfactory Bulb Are Coupled to Glutamate Release and Uptake (2006) (114)
- Synaptic [Ca2+] Intracellular Stores Spill Their Guts (1999) (105)
- Electrotonic architecture of hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons based on three-dimensional reconstructions. (1996) (103)
- Transient inhibition and long-term facilitation of locomotion by phasic optogenetic activation of serotonin neurons (2017) (90)
- Activation of serotonin neurons promotes active persistence in a probabilistic foraging task (2018) (84)
- Standardized and reproducible measurement of decision-making in mice (2020) (77)
- Thinking about feeling (2000) (76)
- The Limits of Deliberation in a Perceptual Decision Task (2013) (73)
- Neural representation of behavioral outcomes in the orbitofrontal cortex (2009) (71)
- Optogenetic Activation of Dorsal Raphe Serotonin Neurons Rapidly Inhibits Spontaneous But Not Odor-Evoked Activity in Olfactory Cortex (2016) (70)
- Use-dependent AMPA receptor block in mice lacking GluR2 suggests postsynaptic site for LTP expression (1998) (70)
- Distinct Sources of Deterministic and Stochastic Components of Action Timing Decisions in Rodent Frontal Cortex (2016) (69)
- An effect of serotonergic stimulation on learning rates for rewards apparent after long intertrial intervals (2018) (63)
- A Defined Network of Fast-Spiking Interneurons in Orbitofrontal Cortex: Responses to Behavioral Contingencies and Ketamine Administration (2009) (62)
- Odor Concentration Invariance by Chemical Ratio Coding (2007) (62)
- Optogenetic Recruitment of Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons Acutely Decreases Mechanosensory Responsivity in Behaving Mice (2014) (56)
- Midbrain contributions to sensorimotor decision making. (2012) (52)
- Relationship Between Odor Intensity Estimates and COVID-19 Prevalence Prediction in a Swedish Population (2020) (51)
- A probabilistic approach to demixing odors (2016) (51)
- An International Laboratory for Systems and Computational Neuroscience (2017) (49)
- Learning optimal decisions with confidence (2018) (46)
- Hebbian computations in hippocampal dendrites and spines (1992) (46)
- Phasic Activation of Dorsal Raphe Serotonergic Neurons Increases Pupil Size (2020) (46)
- The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law (2019) (42)
- Modeling active dendritic processes in pyramidal neurons (1998) (41)
- Demixed principal component analysis of population activity in higher cortical areas reveals independent representation of task parameters (2014) (40)
- Preparing and selecting actions with neural populations: toward cortical circuit mechanisms (2015) (37)
- The impact of learning on perceptual decisions and its implication for speed-accuracy tradeoffs (2018) (34)
- Metastable attractors explain the variable timing of stable behavioral action sequences (2020) (30)
- Computational models of hippocampal neurons (1992) (29)
- Fast Kinetic Models for Simulating AMPA, NMDA, GABA A and GABA B Receptors (1995) (27)
- Behavioral analysis of olfactory coding and computation in rodents (2006) (26)
- Spatial maps in piriform cortex during olfactory navigation (2020) (26)
- How serotonin gates olfactory information flow (2009) (25)
- Inference-Based Decisions in a Hidden State Foraging Task: Differential Contributions of Prefrontal Cortical Areas (2020) (24)
- Inference based decisions in a hidden state foraging task: differential contributions of prefrontal cortical areas (2019) (21)
- 'Balancing' of Conductances May Explain Irregular Cortical Spiking (1995) (21)
- A better way to crack the brain (2016) (19)
- Citric Acid Water as an Alternative to Water Restriction for High-Yield Mouse Behavior (2020) (17)
- Synaptic currents, neuromodulation, and kinetic models (1998) (16)
- Self-organization of Hebbian Synapses in Hippocampal Neurons (1990) (16)
- Expanding perspectives on cognition in humans, animals, and machines (2016) (15)
- Long-Term Potentiation in the CA1 Hippocampus (1996) (14)
- Stereotaxic Adeno-associated Virus Injection and Cannula Implantation in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus of Mice (2017) (14)
- Social cognition in the rodent: nothing to be sniffed at (2013) (14)
- A low-power low-data-rate neural recording system with adaptive spike detection (2008) (14)
- Low-Power High-Resolution 32-channel Neural Recording System (2007) (13)
- Synaptic Interactions (2002) (11)
- Author response: Demixed principal component analysis of neural population data (2016) (10)
- Relationship between odor intensity estimates and COVID-19 population prediction in a Swedish sample (2020) (10)
- The main olfactory bulb and innate behavior: different perspectives on an olfactory scene (2007) (9)
- Dendritic Control of Hebbian Computations (1992) (7)
- Functional plasticity at dendritic synapses (2007) (7)
- Firing patterns of serotonin neurons underlying cognitive flexibility (2016) (7)
- Kinetic models for synaptic interactions (2002) (6)
- Phasic activation of dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons increases pupil-linked arousal (2020) (6)
- European Commission: Put brain project back on course (2014) (6)
- The overlooked ubiquity of first-person experience in the cognitive sciences (2019) (5)
- A Computational Framework for the Study of Confidence Across Species (2014) (5)
- Spatial maps in piriform cortex during olfactory navigation (2021) (5)
- Stress-sensitive inference of task controllability (2020) (5)
- A repertoire of foraging decision variables in the mouse brain (2022) (5)
- Functional MRI of large scale activity in behaving mice (2020) (5)
- Spontaneous Decisions and Free Will: Empirical Results and Philosophical Considerations. (2014) (4)
- Reliability of spike encoding in neocortical neurons (4)
- A Novel Olfactory Self-Test Effectively Screens for COVID-19 (2021) (4)
- Reservoir of decision strategies in the mouse brain (2021) (4)
- An olfactory self-test effectively screens for COVID-19 (2022) (4)
- The Long and the Short of Serotonergic Stimulation: Optogenetic activation of dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons changes the learning rate for rewards (2017) (3)
- Next-generation brain observatories (2022) (3)
- Smelling Household-Odorants Effectively Screens for COVID-19 (2021) (2)
- Convergence in the Piriform Cortex (2011) (2)
- Columnar Architecture Improves Noise Robustness in a Model Cortical Network (2015) (2)
- Activation of dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons promotes persistent waiting independently of reinforcing effects (2014) (2)
- Citric Acid water as an alternative to water scheduling in behaving mice (2020) (2)
- Mechanisms of Spike Generation in Neocortical Neurons (1995) (2)
- The impact of learning on perceptual decisions and its implication for speed-accuracy tradeoffs (2020) (1)
- Activation of serotonin neurons promotes active exploitation in a probabilistic foraging task (2017) (1)
- Maturation of prefrontal input to dorsal raphe nucleus increases behavioral persistence in mice (2022) (1)
- Listening to the Crowd: Neuronal Ensembles Rule (2010) (1)
- Corrigendum to: Relationship Between Odor Intensity Estimates and COVID-19 Prevalence Prediction in a Swedish Population (2020) (1)
- Graded prediction error signal drives behavioral choice biases in rats (2008) (1)
- Author response: Activity patterns of serotonin neurons underlying cognitive flexibility (2017) (1)
- An effect of serotonergic stimulation on learning rates for rewards apparent after long intertrial intervals (2018) (1)
- A response to claims of emergent intelligence and sentience in a dish (2023) (1)
- Activation of serotonin neurons promotes active persistence in a probabilistic foraging task (2018) (0)
- Title : Midbrain contributions to sensorimotor decision making 1 2 (2012) (0)
- Dentritic [Ca2+] Dynamics in the Presence of Immobile Buffers and of Dyes (1999) (0)
- Electrophysiological Monitoring of the Interactions between the Serotonin and Dopamine Systems during the Initiation of Goal Directed Behaviors (2005) (0)
- Transient firing of dorsal raphe neurons specific sensory , motor and reward events (2009) (0)
- The overlooked ubiquity of first-person experience in the cognitive sciences (2019) (0)
- Author response: Transient inhibition and long-term facilitation of locomotion by phasic optogenetic activation of serotonin neurons (2016) (0)
- Temporal anticipation affects decision-making in an olfactory discrimination task (2007) (0)
- The mechanistic foundation of Weber’s law (2019) (0)
- Electrophysiological Monitoring of the Interactions Between the Serotonin and Dopamine Systems During Goal Directed Behaviors (2006) (0)
- 2-Photon Excitation Laser Scanning Microscopy for High Resolution Imaging In Scattering Biological Tissues: Applications to Neuroscience (1999) (0)
- Eventsand Specific Sensory, Motor, and Reward Transient Firing of Dorsal Raphe Neurons Encodes (2015) (0)
- INETIC MODELS FOR SYNAPTIC INTERACTIONS (0)
- Correction: Standardized and reproducible measurement of decision-making in mice (2022) (0)
- Humans learning a complex task are picky and sticky (2022) (0)
- Uncertainty Representation in Orbitofrontal Cortex during Decision-Making in Rats (2007) (0)
- makingcontributions to sensorimotor decision (2015) (0)
- Dendritic Ca 2+ ] Dynamics in the Presence of Immobile Buuers and of Dyes (0)
- Synaptic Currents, Neuromodulation and Kinetic Models Kinetic Models of Synaptic Currents 1 1 Introduction (1995) (0)
- Superior Colliculus of the Macaque A Neural Correlate of Motivational Conflict in the (2015) (0)
- Towards an Image of a Memory Trace (2008) (0)
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