Kauê Machado Costa
@kmcostalab
Neuroscientist 🧠 🇧🇷; Professor @UAB_CAS Interested in dopamine, cortex, cognition, and more
GREAT NEWS! Our paper on dopamine signaling of valueless prediction errors is out in @ScienceAdvances! I found that striatal dopamine tracks cue-cue prediction errors in sensory preconditioning, which goes against model-free theories of dopamine function. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Key to research success: ambition in vision, but pragmatism in execution. You must be guided by a long-term, ambitious goal that addresses a fundamental problem, rather than chasing incremental gains on established benchmarks. Yet, your progress should be grounded by tractable…
The lab is looking to recruit motivated postdocs, grad students, or postbacs with expertise in rodent behavior, stereotactic surgery, and neural data analysis. Come help us figure out the neural mechanisms of learning and cognition! See link below: kmcostalab.com/join
A large-scale genomic analysis reveals Brazil as one of the most genetically diverse countries on Earth—shaped by centuries of colonization, forced migration, and Indigenous heritage, researchers report in Science. scim.ag/4ml21oK
I am excited to announce the opening of our new education laboratory - the Ed Lab! This innovative and purpose-built space is designed to inspire students by offering hands-on experiences with real-world scientific techniques. Our goal is to ignite curiosity and foster a love…
Curiosity sparked. 🧠✨ We're opening the doors to our new education lab. In this new space, students don't just learn about science, they do science. Hands-on, data-driven, curiosity-fueled.
Thrilled to see this great work by X-less Wenhui Zong out in @NatureNeuro! It was a pleasure to contribute to this, especially as the findings are wonderfully counterintuitive and provide surprising insight on the circuit bases of abstract feature representations during learning!
Inactivation of the ventral subiculum doesn't change existing schema cells in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) but aids their formation during new learning nature.com/articles/s4159…
We are super happy to present our first preprint - the effect of our Rethinking Naturalistic Behaviour Workshop - where we look more critically at the term "naturalistic behaviour" and point to its vagueness and inconsistency in its use. 1/n
President Trump and Elon Musk’s funding cuts to groundbreaking medical research do NOT Make America Great. That’s why I’m on the Senate floor introducing a resolution pledging support for NIH & asking for immediate passage. Watch.