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Probing the role of anterior cingulate cortex in sustained reward seeking
Zhang, Q., & Zhou J#.
Trends in Neurosciences, 2025, in press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2025.04.002
Prediction, inference, and generalization in orbitofrontal cortex
Ma, F*., Lin, H*., & Zhou J#.
Current Biology, 2025, 35(7), R266-272
Prior cocaine use disrupts identification of hidden states by single units and neural ensembles in orbitofrontal cortex
Zong, W#., Mueller, L. E., Zhang, Z., Zhou, J#., & Scheonbaum G#.
bioRxiv, 2025, 645972
Schema cell formation in orbitofrontal cortex is suppressed by hippocampal output
Zong, W#., Zhou, J., Gardner, M. P. H., Costa, K. M., Zhang, Z., & Schoenbaum, G#.
Nature Neuroscience, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-025-01928-z.
Distinct prelimbic cortex ensembles encode response execution and inhibition
Madangopal, R#., Zhao, Y., Heins, C., Zhou, J., Liang, B., Barbera, G., ... & Hope, B. T#.
bioRxiv, 2025, 639736
Flexible neural microelectrodes utilizing pre-fabricated PEDOT: PSS films
Sun, Y., Yuan, M., Tang, R., Wang, Y., Zhou, J., Geng, Z., & Pei, W#.
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2025, 382, 116137
Hippocampal and orbitofrontal neurons contribute to complementary aspects of associative structure
Lin, H., & Zhou, J#.
Nature Communications, 2024, 15, 5283.
This study demonstrates that hippocampal and orbitofrontal neurons uniquely and complementarily encode different aspects of learned associations between environmental stimuli by performing calcium imaging on head-fixed mice throughout learning.
Event-specific and persistent representations for contextual states in orbitofrontal neurons
Ma, F., Zhang, L., & Zhou, J#.
Current Biology, 2024, 34(5), 1023-1033.
Ma et al. find individual orbitofrontal neurons encode contextual states, dissociable from distracting sensory stimuli but dynamically changing selectivity upon the transition of task events. However, persistent codes for the current contextual state are found within particular neural subspaces.
A frequency-division transceiver for long-range neural signal recording from multiple subjects
Song, W., Liu, X., Huang, H., Wu, Y., Tang, Z., Wang, J., Ma, F., Zhou, J., & Zhang, M#.
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2024, 59(3), 923-934.
Validating the representational space of deep reinforcement learning models of behavior with neural data
Bruch, S#., McClure, P., Zhou, J., Schoenbaum G. & Pereira F#.
bioRxiv, 2021, 448556.
Is the core function of orbitofrontal cortex to signal values or make predictions?
Zhou, J#., Gardner, M. P., & Schoenbaum, G#.
Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2021, 41, 1-9.
Prospective representations in rat orbitofrontal ensembles
Zhou, J#., Zong, W., Jia, C., Gardner, M.P.H., & Schoenbaum, G#.
Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021, Accepted.
Evolving schema representations in orbitofrontal ensembles during learning
Zhou, J#., Jia, C., Montesinos-Cartagena, M., Gardner, M.P.H., Zong, W., & Schoenbaum, G#.
Nature, 2021, 590, 606–611.
Processing in lateral orbitofrontal cortex is required to estimate subjective preference during initial, but not established, economic choice
Gardner, M#., Sanchez, D., Conroy, J.S., Wikenheiser, A., Zhou, J., & Schoenbaum, G#.
Neuron, 2020, 108, 1-12.
Real-time value integration during economic choice is regulated by orbitofrontal cortex
Gardner, M#, Conroy, J., Sanchez, D., Zhou, J., & Schoenbaum, G#.
Current Biology, 2019, 29(24), 4315-4322.
Complementary task structure representations in hippocampus and orbitofrontal cortex during an odor sequence task
Zhou, J#., Montesinos-Cartagena, M., Wikenheiser, A., Gardner, M., Niv, Y., & Schoenbaum, G#.
Current Biology, 2019, 29(20), 3402-3409.
Rat orbitofrontal ensemble activity contains multiplexed but dissociable representations of value and task structure in an odor sequence task
Zhou, J#., Gardner, M., Stalnaker, T., Ramus, S., Wikenheiser, A., Niv, Y., & Schoenbaum, G#.
Current Biology, 2019, 29(6), 897-907. (F1000 recommended)
Learning shapes the aversion and reward responses of lateral habenula neurons
Wang, D., Li, Y., Feng, Q., Guo, Q., Zhou, J., & Luo, M#.
eLife, 2017, 6, e23045.
Presynaptic excitation via GABA B receptors in habenula cholinergic neurons regulates fear memory expression
Zhang, J., Tan, L., Ren, Y., Liang, J., Lin, R., Feng, Q., Zhou, J., Hu, F., Ren, J., Wei, C., Yu, T., Zhuang, Y., Bettler, B., Wang, F., & Luo, M#.
Cell, 2016, 166(3), 716-728.
Serotonin neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus encode reward signals
Li, Y., Zhong, W., Wang, D., Feng, Q., Liu, Z., Zhou, J., Jia, C., Hu, F., Zeng, J., Guo, Q., Fu, L., & Luo, M#.
Nature Communications, 2016, 7.
Multi-channel fiber photometry for population neuronal activity recording
Guo, Q*., Zhou, J*., Feng, Q., Lin, R., Luo Q., Zeng S., Luo, M#., & Fu, L#.
Biomedical Optics Express, 2015, 6(10), 3919-3931.
Reward processing by the dorsal raphe nucleus: 5-HT and beyond
Luo M#., Zhou J., & Liu Z.
Learning and Memory, 2015, 22: 452-460.
Prospective coding of dorsal raphe reward signals by the orbitofrontal cortex
Zhou, J., Jia, C., Feng, Q., Bao, J., & Luo, M#.
Journal of Neuroscience, 2015, 35(6), 2717-2730.
Dorsal raphe neurons signal reward through 5-HT and glutamate
Liu, Z*., Zhou, J*., Li, Y., Hu, F., Lu, Y., Ma, M., Feng, Q., Zhang, J., Wang, D., Zeng, J., Bao, J., Kim, J., Chen, Z., Mestikawy, S., & Luo, M#.
Neuron, 2014, 81(6), 1360-1374. (F1000 recommended).
Acute and long-term suppression of feeding behavior by POMC neurons in the brainstem and hypothalamus, respectively
Zhan, C*#., Zhou, J*., Feng, Q., Zhang, J. E., Lin, S., Bao, J., Wu, P., & Luo, M#.
Journal of Neuroscience, 2013, 33(8), 3624-3632. (F1000 recommended)
