publications
DeMaegd ML, Hocker D, Gurnani H, Adler-Wachter M, Schindler J, Schiereck SS, Savin C, Constantinople CM (bioRxiv). A corticostriatal circuit updates subjective beliefs about latent task states.
Constantinople CM (2026). Addressing degeneracy in rodent studies of cognition. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 98:103190.
Jang HJ, Ward RM, Golden CEM, Constantinople CM (2026). Acetylcholine demixes heterogeneous dopamine signals for learning and moving. Nature Neuroscience.
Golden CEM, Constantinople CM (2026). Estrogen, dopamine, and learning. DNA & Cell Biology.
Schiereck SS, Pérez-Rivera DT, Mah A, DeMaegd ML, Hocker D, Ward RM, Savin C, Constantinople CM (2026). The orbitofrontal cortex updates beliefs for state inference. Neuron 114(3):507-20.
Golden CEM, Martin AC, Kaur D, Mah A, Levy DH, Yamaguchi T, Lasek AW, Lin D, Aoki C, Constantinople CM (2025). Estrogen modulates reward prediction errors and reinforcement learning. Nature Neuroscience 28:2502-14.
Rajagopalan AE, Constantinople CM (2025). Taking the exit ramp – How the brain determines when to leave. Neuron 113(20):3307-8.
Hocker D, Constantinople CM, Savin C (2025). Compositional pretraining improves computational efficiency and matches animal behavior on complex tasks. Nature Machine Intelligence 7(5):689.
Mah A, Golden CEM, Constantinople CM (2024). Dopamine transients encode reward prediction errors independent of learning rates. Cell Reports 43(10):114840.
Mah A, Schiereck SS, Bossio V, Constantinople CM (2023). Distinct value computations support rapid sequential decisions. Nature Communications 14:7573.
Yao JD, Zemlianova KO, Hocker DL, Savin C, Constantinople CM, Chung SY, Sanes DH (2023). Transformation of acoustic information to sensory decision variables in the parietal cortex. PNAS 120(2):e2212120120.
Hocker D, Brody CD, Savin C*, Constantinople CM* (2021). Subpopulations of neurons in lOFC encode previous and current rewards at time of choice. Elife doi:10.7554/eLife.70129.
Yao JD, Gimoto J, Constantinople CM, Sanes DH (2020). Parietal cortex is required for the integration of acoustic evidence. Current Biology 30:1-11.
Constantinople CM, Piet AT, Bibawi P, Akrami A, Kopec CD, Brody CD (2019). Lateral orbitofrontal cortex promotes trial-by-trial learning of risky, but not spatial, biases. Elife doi:10.7554/eLife.49744.
Constantinople CM, Piet AT, Brody CD (2019). An analysis of decision under risk in rats. Current Biology 29:1-9.
Scott BB*, Constantinople CM*, Akrami A, Hanks TD, Brody CD, Tank DW (2017). Fronto-parietal cortical circuits encode accumulated evidence with a diversity of timescales. Neuron 95(2):385-98.
Scott BB*, Constantinople CM*, Erlich JC, Tank DW, Brody CD (2015). Sources of noise during accumulation of evidence in unrestrained and voluntarily head-restrained rats. Elife doi: 10.7554.
Constantinople CM, Bruno RM (2013). Deep cortical layers are activated directly by thalamus. Science 340(6140):1591-4.
Thuault S, Malleret G, Constantinople CM, Nicholls R, Chen I, Zhu J, Panteleyev A, Vronskaya S, Nolan M, Bruno RM, Siegelbaum S, Kandel E (2013). Prefrontal cortex HCN1 channels enable intrinsic persistent neural firing and executive memory function. Journal of Neuroscience 33(34):13583-99.
Constantinople CM, Bruno RM (2011). Effects and mechanisms of wakefulness on local cortical networks. Neuron 69(6):1061-8 (Evaluated by the Faculty of 1000).
Constantinople CM*, Disney AA*, Maffie J, Rudy B, Hawken MJ (2009). Quantitative analysis of neurons with Kv3 potassium channel subunits, Kv3.1b and Kv3.2, in macaque primary visual cortex. Journal of Comparative Neurology 516(4): 291-311.