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Naoshige Uchida, Ph.D.

Investigator, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain

SFARI Investigator

Affiliations
  • Harvard University
Website
mcb.harvard.edu/directory/naoshige-uchida

Publications

Spontaneous behaviour is structured by reinforcement without explicit reward

Nature, January 18, 2023

JE Markowitz, WF Gillis, M Jay, J Wood, RW Harris, R Cieszkowski, et al.

​​Striatal dopamine explains novelty-induced behavioral dynamics and individual variability in threat prediction

Neuron, September 13, 2022

K Akiti, I Tsutsui-Kimura, Y Xie, A Mathis, JE Markowitz, R Anyoha, et al.

A gradual temporal shift of dopamine responses mirrors the progression of temporal difference error in machine learning

Nat Neurosci, July 7, 2022

R Amo, S Matias, A Yamanaka, KF Tanaka, Naoshige Uchida, and M Watabe-Uchida

The role of state uncertainty in the dynamics of dopamine

Curr Biol, January 28, 2022

JG Mikhael, HR Kim, Naoshige Uchida, and SJ Gershman

Projects

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Discovering repeating neural motifs representing sequenced behavior

Funded Work

Featuring Naoshige Uchida

Image of the hippocampus was taken with an ultra-widefield high-speed multiphoton laser microscope.

2025 Autism Rat Consortium Meeting Held in New York City

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SFARI Researchers Gather in Edinburgh for 2024 Autism Rat Consortium Meeting

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SFARI Autism Rat Models Consortium Awardees Announced

Some dopamine neurons (red) in the ventral tegmental area respond to reward, others to the animal’s position, speed or acceleration. Calcium activity, a proxy for neural activity, is highlighted in green.

Dopamine: Beyond the Rush of a Reward

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