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List of works by Rui M. Costa

A selectionist account of de novo action learning

scientific article published on 09 June 2011

An aetiological Foxp2 mutation causes aberrant striatal activity and alters plasticity during skill learning

scientific article (publication date: November 2012)

Balanced activity in basal ganglia projection pathways is critical for contraversive movements

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Basal ganglia subcircuits distinctively encode the parsing and concatenation of action sequences

scientific article published on 26 January 2014

Bursting for exploration

scientific article published in September 2012

Central nervous system myelination in mice with deficient expression of Notch1 receptor

scientific article published in February 2002

Chronic Toxoplasma Infection Modifies the Structure and the Risk of Host Behavior

scientific article published on March 14, 2012

Chronic stress causes frontostriatal reorganization and affects decision-making

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Concurrent activation of striatal direct and indirect pathways during action initiation.

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Corticostriatal dynamics during learning and performance of a neuroprosthetic task

scientific article published in January 2010

Corticostriatal dynamics encode the refinement of specific behavioral variability during skill learning

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Corticostriatal plasticity is necessary for learning intentional neuroprosthetic skills

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Deep brain optical measurements of cell type-specific neural activity in behaving mice

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Deletion of the neuron-specific protein delta-catenin leads to severe cognitive and synaptic dysfunction

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Different dorsal striatum circuits mediate action discrimination and action generalization

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Differential corticostriatal plasticity during fast and slow motor skill learning in mice

scientific article published in July 2004

Dissociable effects of dopamine on neuronal firing rate and synchrony in the dorsal striatum

scientific article published on 30 October 2009

Dopamine levels modulate the updating of tastant values

scientific article published on 17 July 2006

Dopaminergic control of sleep-wake states.

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Dopaminergic mechanisms in actions and habits

scientific article published on August 2007

Dynamic reorganization of striatal circuits during the acquisition and consolidation of a skill.

scientific article published on 08 February 2009

Effect of pharmacologically induced changes in milk ejection on suckling in Bos taurus

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Endocannabinoid signaling is critical for habit formation

scientific article published on 2 November 2007

Evidence for a neural law of effect.

scientific article published in March 2018

Frontocerebellar Connectivity: Climbing through the Inferior Olive

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Gustatory effects of capsaicin that are independent of TRPV1 receptors

scientific article published in January 2005

Impaired synaptic plasticity and motor learning in mice with a point mutation implicated in human speech deficits

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Inducible, pharmacogenetic approaches to the study of learning and memory.

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Instrumental uncertainty as a determinant of behavior under interval schedules of reinforcement

scientific article published on 28 May 2010

Investigating neural correlates of behavior in freely behaving rodents using inertial sensors

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Learning and memory deficits in Notch mutant mice.

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Looking at the trees in the central forest: a new pallidal-striatal cell type

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Matrix metalloproteinase-9 is required for hippocampal late-phase long-term potentiation and memory

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Molecular and cellular mechanisms of cognitive function: implications for psychiatric disorders

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Mouse models of neurofibromatosis type I: bridging the GAP.

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Neurofibromin regulation of ERK signaling modulates GABA release and learning

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Neuroscience: The symphony of choice

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Notch to remember

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Open-source, Python-based, hardware and software for controlling behavioural neuroscience experiments

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

Optogenetics: 10 years after ChR2 in neurons--views from the community

scientific article published on August 2015

Orbitofrontal and striatal circuits dynamically encode the shift between goal-directed and habitual actions

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Pharmacologically regulated induction of silent mutations (PRISM): combined pharmacological and genetic approaches for learning and memory

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Plastic corticostriatal circuits for action learning: what's dopamine got to do with it?

scientific article published on 13 April 2007

Premotor cortex is critical for goal-directed actions

scientific article published on 12 August 2013

Rapid alterations in corticostriatal ensemble coordination during acute dopamine-dependent motor dysfunction

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Start/stop signals emerge in nigrostriatal circuits during sequence learning

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Stimulation on demand: closing the loop on deep brain stimulation.

scientific article published in October 2011

Temporally precise cell-specific coherence develops in corticostriatal networks during learning.

scientific article published on 15 August 2013

Volitional modulation of optically recorded calcium signals during neuroprosthetic learning

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