Combined Social and Spatial Coding in a Descending Projection from the Prefrontal Cortex

Malavika Murugan, Hee Jae Jang, Michelle Park, +10

Cell

Cognitive ScienceNeuropsychologyDescending ProjectionBrain StructurePrefrontal Cortex +12

Motor circuits are required to encode a sensory model for imitative learning

Todd F. Roberts, Sharon M. H. Gobes, Malavika Murugan, +2

Nature Neuroscience

Cognitive ScienceMotor LearningMotor CircuitsNeural MechanismComputational Neuroscience +11

Diminished FoxP2 Levels Affect Dopaminergic Modulation of Corticostriatal Signaling Important to Song Variability

Malavika Murugan, Stephen C. Harward, Constance Scharff, +1

Neuron

MusicNeurobiological MechanismBehavioral NeurosciencePhysiologyNeuroendocrine Mechanism +8

Increased Cocaine Motivation Is Associated with Degraded Spatial and Temporal Representations in IL-NAc Neurons

Courtney M. Cameron, Malavika Murugan, Jung Yoon Choi, +2

Neuron

Neurobiological MechanismCognitive ScienceBehavioral NeuroscienceAddictionTemporal Representations +12

Choice-selective sequences dominate in cortical relative to thalamic inputs to NAc to support reinforcement learning

Nathan F. Parker, Avinash Baidya, Julia Cox, +6

Cell Reports

Focal expression of mutant huntingtin in the songbird basal ganglia disrupts cortico-basal ganglia networks and vocal sequences

Masashi Tanaka, Jonnathan Singh Alvarado, Malavika Murugan, +1

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Overlapping representations of food and social stimuli in mouse VTA dopamine neurons

Lindsay Willmore, Adelaide R. Minerva, Ben Engelhard, +6

Neuron

Neurobiological MechanismCognitive ScienceBehavioral NeuroscienceAffective NeuroscienceNeuroscience +5

Sex differences in neural representations of social and nonsocial reward in the medial prefrontal cortex

Jennifer Isaac, Sonia Karkare, Hymavathy Balasubramanian, +4

Nature Communications

NeuropsychologyBehavioral NeuroscienceNonsocial RewardSocial BehaviorMedicine +12

Cingulate to septal circuitry facilitates the preference to affiliate with large peer groups

Brandon A. Fricker, Malavika Murugan, Ashley W. Seifert, +1

Current Biology

Behavioral SciencesNetwork ScienceCollective Action ProblemSocial BehaviorLarge Peer Groups +7

Choice-selective sequences dominate in cortical relative to thalamic inputs to nucleus accumbens, providing a potential substrate for credit assignment

Nathan F. Parker, Avinash Baidya, Julia Cox, +6

NeuropsychologyDevelopmental Cognitive NeuroscienceBrain MechanismAffective NeuroscienceCortical Relative +21