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Some professional news : My team is moving to Johns Hopkins University this Summer. I am deeply grateful to Washington University for supporting us since 2014. It has been an amazing journey full of brilliant colleagues and friends.
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New work! How does perceptual novelty impact the value of (physical) rewards: what are the underlying algorithms and neural mechanisms? The answers may help to construct smarter AIs and to understand how and why novelty seeking breaks in psychiatric disorders.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Temporal-orbitofrontal pathway regulates choices across physical reward and visual novelty
Perceptually novel objects have profound impacts on our daily decisions. People often pay to try novel meals over familiar ones, or to see novel visual scenes at art exhibits and travel destinations. ...
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.15.648986v1
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Psilocybin’s lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors - Nature
A pyramidal cell type and the 5-HT2A receptor in the medial frontal cortex have essential roles in psilocybin’s long-term drug action.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08813-6
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First blue sky post is to celebrate! Incredibly proud of Dr Julia Pai. Fantastic defense and pioneering project on non-neuronal cells in Reinforcement Learning! Now almost off to her next chapter. Paper in prep!
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