Pleasure rather than salience activates human nucleus accumbens and medial prefrontal cortex D Sabatinelli, MM Bradley, PJ Lang, VD Costa, F Versace Journal of neurophysiology 98 (3), 1374-1379, 2007 | 304 | 2007 |
Dopamine modulates novelty seeking behavior during decision making VD Costa, VL Tran, J Turchi, BB Averbeck Behavioral neuroscience 128 (5), 556, 2014 | 232 | 2014 |
Emotional imagery: assessing pleasure and arousal in the brain's reward circuitry VD Costa, PJ Lang, D Sabatinelli, F Versace, MM Bradley Human brain mapping 31 (9), 1446-1457, 2010 | 221 | 2010 |
The timing of emotional discrimination in human amygdala and ventral visual cortex D Sabatinelli, PJ Lang, MM Bradley, VD Costa, A Keil Journal of Neuroscience 29 (47), 14864-14868, 2009 | 215 | 2009 |
Motivational neural circuits underlying reinforcement learning BB Averbeck, VD Costa Nature Neuroscience 20 (4), 505-512, 2017 | 180 | 2017 |
Reversal learning and dopamine: a bayesian perspective VD Costa, VL Tran, J Turchi, BB Averbeck Journal of Neuroscience 35 (6), 2407-2416, 2015 | 165 | 2015 |
Balancing exploration and exploitation with information and randomization RC Wilson, E Bonawitz, VD Costa, RB Ebitz Current opinion in behavioral sciences 38, 49-56, 2021 | 164 | 2021 |
Amygdala and ventral striatum make distinct contributions to reinforcement learning VD Costa, O Dal Monte, DR Lucas, EA Murray, BB Averbeck Neuron 92 (2), 505-517, 2016 | 142 | 2016 |
More than Meets the Eye: the Relationship between Pupil Size and Locus Coeruleus Activity VD Costa, PH Rudebeck Neuron 89, 8-10, 2016 | 131 | 2016 |
Subcortical substrates of explore-exploit decisions in primates VD Costa, AR Mitz, BB Averbeck Neuron 103 (3), 533-545. e5, 2019 | 101 | 2019 |
Scan patterns when viewing natural scenes: Emotion, complexity, and repetition MM Bradley, P Houbova, L Miccoli, VD Costa, PJ Lang Psychophysiology 48 (11), 1544-1553, 2011 | 100 | 2011 |
Oxytocin enhances attention to the eye region in rhesus monkeys O Dal Monte, PL Noble, VD Costa, BB Averbeck Frontiers in neuroscience 8, 41, 2014 | 98 | 2014 |
Amygdala lesions in rhesus macaques decrease attention to threat O Dal Monte, VD Costa, PL Noble, EA Murray, BB Averbeck Nature communications 6 (1), 10161, 2015 | 82 | 2015 |
The role of frontal cortical and medial-temporal lobe brain areas in learning a Bayesian prior belief on reversals AI Jang, VD Costa, PH Rudebeck, Y Chudasama, EA Murray, ... Journal of Neuroscience 35 (33), 11751-11760, 2015 | 81 | 2015 |
Selective looking at natural scenes: Hedonic content and gender MM Bradley, VD Costa, PJ Lang International Journal of Psychophysiology 98 (1), 54-58, 2015 | 75 | 2015 |
Prefrontal regulation of punished ethanol self-administration LR Halladay, A Kocharian, PT Piantadosi, ME Authement, AG Lieberman, ... Biological Psychiatry 87 (11), 967-978, 2020 | 63 | 2020 |
Effects of ventral striatum lesions on stimulus-based versus action-based reinforcement learning KM Rothenhoefer, VD Costa, R Bartolo, R Vicario-Feliciano, EA Murray, ... Journal of Neuroscience 37 (29), 6902-6914, 2017 | 60 | 2017 |
From threat to safety: Instructed reversal of defensive reactions VD Costa, MM Bradley, PJ Lang Psychophysiology 52 (3), 325-332, 2015 | 59 | 2015 |
Imaging distributed and massed repetitions of natural scenes: Spontaneous retrieval and maintenance MM Bradley, VD Costa, V Ferrari, M Codispoti, JR Fitzsimmons, PJ Lang Human Brain Mapping 36 (4), 1381-1392, 2015 | 55 | 2015 |
Primate orbitofrontal cortex codes information relevant for managing explore–exploit tradeoffs VD Costa, BB Averbeck Journal of Neuroscience 40 (12), 2553-2561, 2020 | 54 | 2020 |