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PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS

2025

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Rhesus macaque choices reveal that ambiguity aversion is driven by pessimistic probability estimates

Willa G. Kerkhoff, William R. Stauffer

bioRxiv

2025

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A Multimodal Atlas Reveals the Anatomical Distribution of Medium Spiny Neuron Subtypes and a Novel RGS6+ Population in the Primate Striatum

Ghada Abdelhady, Olivia R. Brull, Jing He, Meng K. Lin, Adriana Galvan, Andreas R. Pfenning, Andreea C. Bostan, William R. Stauffer

bioRxiv

2025

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Machine learning identification of enhancers in the rhesus macaque genome

Jing He, BaDoi N. Phan, Willa G. Kerkhoff, Aydin Alikaya, Tao Hong, Olivia R. Brull, J. Megan Fredericks, Morgan Sedorovitz, Chaitanya Srinivasan, Michael J. Leone, Olivia M. Wirfel, Ashley Brown, Samuel Dauby, Rachel K. Tittle, Meng K. Lin, Bryan M. Hooks, Andreea C. Bostan, Omar A. Gharbawie, Leah C. Byrne, Andreas R. Pfenning, William R. Stauffer

Neuron

2024

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Basal ganglia: Uniting circuit logic between matrix and striosome

Willa G. Kerkhoff, William R. Stauffer

Current Biology

2024

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Synaptic alterations in pyramidal cells following genetic manipulation of neuronal excitability in monkey prefrontal cortex

Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos, Takeaki Miyamae, Yosuke Nishihata, Olga L. Krimer, Kirsten Wade, Kenneth N. Fish, Dominique Arion, Zhao-Lin Cai, Mingshan Xue, William R. Stauffer, and David A. Lewis

Journal of Neurophysiology

2024

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An open-source MRI compatible frame for multimodal presurgical mapping in macaque and capuchin monkeys

Lucy Liang, Isabela Zimmermann Rollin, Aydin Alikaya, Jonathan C. Ho, Tales Santini, Andreea C. Bostan, Helen N. Schwerdt, William R. Stauffer, Tamer S. Ibrahim, Elvira Pirondini, David J. Schaeffer

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

2024

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Anterior cingulate learns reward distribution

Tao Hong, William R. Stauffer

Nature Neuroscience

2023

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Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation

Tao Hong, William R. Stauffer

Nature Neuroscience

2023

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Computational strategies for deliberative thought

Research Brief of "Computational complexity drives sustained deliberation"

Nature Neuroscience

2022

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Machine learning sequence prioritization for cell type-specific enhancer design

Alyssa J Lawler, Easwaran Ramamurthy, Ashley R Brown, Naomi Shin, Yeonju Kim, Noelle Toong, Irene M Kaplow, Morgan Wirthlin, Xiaoyu Zhang, BaDoi N Phan, Grant A Fox, Kirsten Wade, Jing He, Bilge Esin Ozturk, Leah C Byrne, William R Stauffer, Kenneth N Fish, Andreas R Pfenning

eLife

2022

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Quantitative single-cell transcriptome-based ranking of engineered AAVs in human retinal explants

Zhouhuan Xi, Bilge E. Öztürk, Molly E. Johnson, Serhan Turunç, William R. Stauffer, Leah C. Byrne

Molecular Therapy

2021

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Transcriptional and anatomical diversity of medium spiny neurons in the primate striatum

Jing He, Michael Kleyman, Jianjiao Chen, Aydin Alikaya, Kathryn M. Rothenhoefer, Bilge Esin Ozturk, Morgan Wirthlin, Andreea C. Bostan, Kenneth Fish, Leah C. Byrne, Andreas R. Pfenning, William R. Stauffer

Current Biology

2021

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scAAVengr, a transcriptome-based pipeline for quantitative ranking of engineered AAVs with single-cell resolution

Bilge E Öztürk, Molly E Johnson, Michael Kleyman, Serhan Turunç, Jing He, Sara Jabalameli, Zhouhuan Xi, Meike Visel, Valérie L Dufour, Simone Iwabe, Luis Felipe L Pompeo Marinho, Gustavo D Aguirre, José-Alain Sahel, David V Schaffer, Andreas R Pfenning, John G Flannery, William A Beltran, William R Stauffer, Leah C Byrne

eLife

2021

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Rare rewards amplify dopamine responses

Kathryn M. Rothenhoefer, Tao Hong, Aydin Alikaya, William R. Stauffer

Nature Neuroscience

2021

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Smarter than humans: rationality reflected in primate neuronal reward signals

Wolfram Schultz, Wiliam R Stauffer, Armin Lak, Alexandre Pastor-Bernier

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

2020

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An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics

Sébastien Tremblay, [...] , William R. Stauffer, Masahiko Takada, Shiming Tang, Alexander Thiele, Stefan Treue, Wim Vanduffel, Rufin Vogels, Matthew P. Whitmire, Thomas Wichmann, Robert H. Wurtz, Haoran Xu, Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad, Krishna V. Shenoy, James J. DiCarlo, Michael L. Platt

Neuron

2020

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Dopamine prediction error responses reflect economic utility

William R. Stauffer, Wolfram Schultz*

The Cognitive Neurosciences

2020

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Dopamine Signals Learn New Tricks

Kathryn M. Rothenhoefer, William R. Stauffer

Neuron

2018

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The biological and behavioral computations that influence dopamine responses

William R. Stauffer

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

2017

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Dopamine prediction error responses update demand

Kathryn M. Rothenhoefer, William R. Stauffer

PNAS

2017

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Nonhuman Primate Optogenetics: Recent Advances and Future Directions

Adriana Galvan, William R. Stauffer, Leah Acker, Yasmine El-Shamayleh, Ken-ichi Inoue, Shay Ohayon and Michael C. Schmid

Journal of Neuroscience

2017

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Reward and value coding by dopamine neurons in non-human primates

Aydin Alikaya, Mackenzie Rack-Wildner, William R. Stauffer

Journal of Neural Transmission

2017

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The phasic dopamine signal maturing: from reward via behavioural activation to formal economic utility

Wolfram Schultz, Wiliam R Stauffer, Armin Lak

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

2016

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Dopamine neurons learn relative chosen value from probabilistic rewards

Armin Lak, William R Stauffer, Wolfram Schultz

eLife

2016

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Dopamine Neuron-Specific Optogenetic Stimulation in Rhesus Macaques

William R. Stauffer, Armin Lak, Aimei Yang, Melodie Borel, Ole Paulsen, Edward S. Boyden, Wolfram Schultz

Cell Press

2016

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Utility functions predict variance and skewness risk preferences in monkeys

Wilfried Genest, William R. Stauffer, Wolfram Schultz

PNAS

2015

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Systems Neuroscience: Shaping the Reward Prediction Error Signal

William R. Stauffer

Current Biology

2015

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Components and characteristics of the dopamine reward utility signal

William R. Stauffer, Armin Lak, Shunsuke Kobayashi, Wolfram Schultz

Journal of Comparative Neurology

2015

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Economic Choices Reveal Probability Distortion in Macaque Monkeys

William R. Stauffer, Armin Lak, Peter Bossaerts, Wolfram Schultz

Journal of Neuroscience

2015

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A Role For Orbitofrontal Neurons in Risky Decisions

Armin Lak, William R. Stauffer

Journal of Neuroscience

2014

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Dopamine Reward Prediction Error Responses Reflect Marginal Utility

William R. Stauffer, Armin Lak, Wolfram Schultz

Current Biology

2014

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Dopamine prediction error responses integrate subjective value from different reward dimensions

Armin Lak, William R Stauffer, Wolfram Schultz

PNAS

2011

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Rapid modulation of local neural activity by controlled drug release from polymer-coated recording microelectrodes

William R. Stauffer, P-M Lau, G-Q Bi and Xinyan Tracy Cui

Journal of Neural Engineering

2010

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Enhanced Differentiation of Embryonic and Neural Stem Cells to Neuronal Fates on Laminin Peptides Doped Polypyrrole

Ling Zhang, William R. Stauffer, Esther P. Jane, Paul J. Sammak, Xinyan Tracy Cui

Macro-Molecular Bioscience

2008

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Surface immobilization of neural adhesion molecule L1 for improving the biocompatibility of chronic neural probes: In vitro characterization

Erdrin Azemi, William R. Stauffer, Mark S. Gostock, Carl F. Lagenaur, Xinyan Tracy Cui

Acta Biomaterialia

2006

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Polypyrrole doped with 2 peptide sequences from laminin

William R. Stauffer, Xinyan T. Cui

Biomaterials

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