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Neuroscientist 🧠 Brazilian Assistant Professor at UAB Dept. of Psychology Allen Institute Next Generation Leader Interested in dopamine, cortex, learning, cognition, and more kmcostalab.com
👤 Joined on 24 September 2023
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@kmcosta.bsky.social@kmcosta.bsky.social → @kmcostalab.comCongratulations to @deisseroth.bsky.social ! Optogenetics has transformed neuroscience. I'm also grateful for the open-source spirit Karl and colleagues championed by sharing optogenetic tools freely from the start. It made a huge difference for the field.
Show PostWe studied Kamin Blocking of causal learning in people with schizophrenia, psychics with lots of esoteric beliefs, and controls. Blocking is weaker in people with weird beliefs, because they have aberrant prediction errors - which relate to responses in DLPFC
Show PostI’ve been working with this DLPFC/prediction error/delusions finding for about 20 years. Often when I present, people ask, are the errors coming from within DLPFC or its inputs? Now we (think we) know…
Show PostOur new work on how belief states could be implemented by attractor-like dynamics in the brain -- an effort started in Starkweather et al. (2017) in collaboration with Sam Gershman, and Jay Hennig, now joined by Scott Linderman! Thank you to all collaborators!
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