Inferior temporal cortex (IT) is a key part of the ventral visual pathway implicated in object,
face, and scene perception. But how does IT work? Here, I describe an organizational …

Animals and humans evolved sophisticated nervous systems that endowed them with the
ability to form internal-models or beliefs and make predictions about the future to survive and …

Midbrain dopamine neurons are well known for their role in reward-based reinforcement
learning. We found that the activity of dopamine axons in the posterior tail of the striatum …

Primates interact with the world by exploring visual objects; they seek opportunities to view
novel objects even when these have no extrinsic reward value. How the brain controls this …

The salience of behaviorally relevant stimuli is dynamic and influenced by internal state and
external environment. Monitoring such changes is critical for effective learning and flexible …

Humans and other animals often show a strong desire to know the uncertain rewards their
future has in store, even when they cannot use this information to influence the outcome …

Hypotheses and beliefs guide credit assignment–the process of determining which previous
events or actions caused an outcome. Adaptive hypothesis formation and testing are crucial …

Substantial experimental, theoretical, and computational insights into sensory processing
have been derived from the phenomena of perceptual multistability—when two or more …

The primate brain is equipped to learn and remember newly encountered visual stimuli such
as faces and objects. In the macaque inferior temporal (IT) cortex, neurons mark the …

The striatum controls behavior in two ways: facilitation and suppression through the direct
and indirect pathways, respectively. However, it is still unclear what information is processed …