New preprint from the lab. @markgergues.bsky.social and crew show that the PVT gates ventral hippocampal salience coding, shifting output between threat- and reward-weighted representations during associative learning and anxiety-related behavior.
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Mazen Kheirbek
Why does dopamine ramp up during approach to predictable rewards?
In this preprint with Luke Priestley, we explore the idea that dopamine ramps occur when reward predictions inferred using a world-model are used to train striatal cached values.
What can a neuron compute https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.08.730984v1