Publications
Patterned wireless transcranial optogenetics for artificial perception. Wu M.*, Yang Y.*, Zhang J.*, Efimov A.I.*, Vázquez-Guardado A.*, Li K.*, Zhang K.*, Wang Y., Gu J., Zeng L, Liu J., Yoon H., Kim M., Zhang H., Riahi M., Kang J, Zhang W., Banks A., Good C.H., Cox J.M., Pinto L., Huang Y., Kozorovitskiy Y., Rogers J.A. Nature Neuroscience. 2025. bioRxiv. *equal contributions
The role of mesolimbic circuitry in aversive signaling and opioid dependence. Branco, P., Cox J., Wu Y., Morison S.L., Parker J.G., Lerner T.N., Martina M., Awatramani R., Surmeier D.J., Apkarian A.V. Neuron. 2025.
Region-specific nucleus accumbens dopamine signals encode distinct aspects of avoidance learning. G.C., Van Camp L.D., Kovaleski R.F., Schaid M.D., Sherathiya V.N., Cox J.M., Lerner T.L. Current Biology. 2025. bioRxiv
A neural substrate of sex-dependent modulation of motivation by value. J. Cox, Minerva, A.R., Fleming W.T., Zimmerman C.A., Hayes C., Zorowitz S., Bandi, A., Ornelas S., McMannon, B., Parker N.F., Witten I.B. Nature Neuroscience. 2023. bioRxiv
Choice-selective sequences dominate in cortical relative to thalamic inputs to nucleus accumbens, providing a potential substrate for credit assignment. Parker, N.F.*, Baidya, A.*, Cox J.*, Haetzel L., Zhukovskaya A., Murugan M., Engelhard B, Goldman M.S., Witten I.B. Cell Reports. 2022. bioRxiv. *equal contributions
Opponent control of behavior by dorsomedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state. Bolkan, S.S.*, Stone, I.R.*, Pinto, L., Ashwood, Z.C., Iravedra Garcia, J.M., Herman, A.L., Singh, P., Bandi, A., Cox, J., Zimmerman, C.A., Cho, J.R., Engelhard, B., Pillow, J.W., Witten, I.B. Nature Neuroscience. 2022. bioRxiv. *equal contributions
Distinct signals in medial and lateral VTA dopamine neurons modulate fear extinction at different times. Cai L.X., Pizano K, Gunderson G.W., Hayes C.L., Fleming W.T., Holt S., Cox J.M., Witten I.B. eLife. 2020.
Striatal circuits for reward learning and decision-making. Cox J., Witten I.B. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2019.
Specialized coding of sensory, motor and cognitive variables in VTA dopamine neurons. Engelhard B., Finkelstein J., Cox J., Fleming W., Jang H.J., Ornelas S., Koay S.A., Thiberge S., Daw N.D., Tank D.W., Witten I.B. Nature. 2019. bioRxiv
Combined social and spatial coding in a descending projection from the prefrontal cortex. Murugan M., Jang H. J., Park M., Miller E. M., Cox J., Taliaferro J. P., Parker, N.F., Bhave V., Hur H., Liang Y., Nectow A.R., Pillow J.W., Witten I. B. Cell. 2017. bioRxiv.
Calcium imaging of sleep-wake related neuronal activity in the dorsal pons. Cox, J., Pinto, L., & Dan, Y. Nature Communications. 2016.
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