Publications
Preprints
Hong T, Stauffer WR. Combinatorial algorithms guide economic deliberation. Preprint. Research Square. 2022 May 09. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1598753/v1.
2022
Lawler AJ, Ramamurthy E, Brown AR, Shin N, Kim Y, Toong N, Kaplow IM, Wirthlin M, Zhang X, Phan BN, Fox GA, Wade K, He J, Ozturk BE, Byrne LC, Stauffer WR, Fish KN, Pfenning AR. Machine learning sequence prioritization for cell type-specific enhancer design. Elife. 2022 May 16;11:e69571. doi: 10.7554/eLife.69571. PMID: 35576146. PDF
Xi Z, Öztürk BE, Johnson ME, Turunç S, Stauffer WR, Byrne LC. Quantitative single-cell transcriptome-based ranking of engineered AAVs in human retinal explants. Mol Ther Methods Clin Dev. 2022 Apr 30;25:476-489. doi: 10.1016/j.omtm.2022.04.014. PMID: 35615708. PDF
2021
He J, Kleyman M, Chen J, Alikaya A, Rothenhoefer KM, Ozturk BE, Wirthlin M, Bostan AC, Fish K, Byrne LC, Pfenning AR, Stauffer WR. Transcriptional and anatomical diversity of medium spiny neurons in the primate striatum. Curr Biol. 2021 Dec 20;31(24):5473-5486.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.10.015. Epub 2021 Nov 1. PMID: 34727523. PDF
Öztürk BE, Johnson ME, Kleyman M, Turunç S, He J, Jabalameli S, Xi Z, Visel M, Dufour VL, Iwabe S, Pompeo Marinho LFL, Aguirre GD, Sahel JA, Schaffer DV, Pfenning AR, Flannery JG, Beltran WA, Stauffer WR, Byrne LC. scAAVengr, a transcriptome-based pipeline for quantitative ranking of engineered AAVs with single-cell resolution. Elife. 2021 Oct 19;10:e64175. doi: 10.7554/eLife.64175. PMID: 34664552; PMCID: PMC8612735. PDF
Rothenhoefer KM, Hong T, Alikaya A, Stauffer WR. Rare rewards amplify dopamine responses. Nat Neurosci. 2021 Apr;24(4):465-469. doi: 10.1038/s41593-021-00807-7. Epub 2021 Mar 8. PMID: 33686298. PDF
Schultz W, Stauffer WR, Lak A, Pastor-Bernier A. Smarter than humans: rationality reflected in primate neuronal reward signals. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences. 2021;41:50-6. PDF
2020
Tremblay S, Acker L, Afraz A, Albaugh DL, Amita H, Andrei AR, Angelucci A, Aschner A, Balan PF, Basso MA, Benvenuti G, Bohlen MO, Caiola MJ, Calcedo R, et al. An Open Resource for Non-human Primate Optogenetics. Neuron. 2020 Dec 23;108(6):1075-1090.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.09.027. Epub 2020 Oct 19. PMID: 33080229; PMCID: PMC7962465. PDF
Stauffer WR., Schultz W. (2020) Chapter 49: Dopamine prediction error responses reflect economic utility. In MS Gazzaniga, editor. The Cognitive Neurosciences, 6th Edition (pp. 587–596). Cambridge: MIT Press. PDF
Rothenhoefer KM, Stauffer WR. Dopamine Signals Learn New Tricks. Neuron. 2020 Apr 8;106(1):11-13. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.03.019. PMID: 32272062. PDF
2018
Stauffer WR. The biological and behavioral computations that influence dopamine responses. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2018 Apr;49:123-131. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2018.02.005. Epub 2018 Mar 2. PMID: 29505948; PMCID: PMC6095465. PDF
2017
Rothenhoefer KM, Stauffer WR. Dopamine prediction error responses update demand. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2017 Dec 26;114(52):13597-13599. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1718818115. Epub 2017 Dec 12. PMID: 29233946; PMCID: PMC5748230. PDF
Galvan A, Stauffer WR, Acker L, El-Shamayleh Y, Inoue KI, Ohayon S, Schmid MC. Nonhuman Primate Optogenetics: Recent Advances and Future Directions. J Neurosci. 2017 Nov 8;37(45):10894-10903. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1839-17.2017. PMID: 29118219; PMCID: PMC5678022. PDF
Alikaya A, Rack-Wildner M, Stauffer WR. Reward and value coding by dopamine neurons in non-human primates. J Neural Transm (Vienna). 2018 Mar;125(3):565-574. doi: 10.1007/s00702-017-1793-9. Epub 2017 Oct 26. PMID: 29076112; PMCID: PMC5847197. PDF
Schultz W, Stauffer WR, Lak A. The phasic dopamine signal maturing: from reward via behavioural activation to formal economic utility. Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2017 Apr;43:139-148. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2017.03.013. Epub 2017 Apr 6. PMID: 28390863. PDF
2016
Lak A, Stauffer WR, Schultz W. Dopamine neurons learn relative chosen value from probabilistic rewards. Elife. 2016 Oct 27;5:e18044. doi: 10.7554/eLife.18044. PMID: 27787196; PMCID: PMC5116238. PDF
Stauffer WR, Lak A, Yang A, Borel M, Paulsen O, Boyden ES, Schultz W. Dopamine Neuron-Specific Optogenetic Stimulation in Rhesus Macaques. Cell. 2016 Sep 8;166(6):1564-1571.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.08.024. PMID: 27610576; PMCID: PMC5018252. PDF
Genest W, Stauffer WR, Schultz W. Utility functions predict variance and skewness risk preferences in monkeys. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jul 26;113(30):8402-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1602217113. Epub 2016 Jul 11. PMID: 27402743; PMCID: PMC4968724. PDF
2015
Stauffer WR. Systems Neuroscience: Shaping the Reward Prediction Error Signal. Curr Biol. 2015 Nov 16;25(22):R1081-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.057. PMID: 26583899. PDF
Stauffer WR, Lak A, Kobayashi S, Schultz W. Components and characteristics of the dopamine reward utility signal. J Comp Neurol. 2016 Jun 1;524(8):1699-711. doi: 10.1002/cne.23880. Epub 2015 Sep 8. PMID: 26272220; PMCID: PMC4753145. PDF
Stauffer WR, Lak A, Bossaerts P, Schultz W. Economic choices reveal probability distortion in macaque monkeys. J Neurosci. 2015 Feb 18;35(7):3146-54. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3653-14.2015. PMID: 25698750; PMCID: PMC4331632. PDF
Lak A, Stauffer WR. A role for orbitofrontal neurons in risky decisions. J Neurosci. 2015 Jan 28;35(4):1340-2. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4325-14.2015. PMID: 25632112; PMCID: PMC4308586. PDF
2014
Stauffer WR, Lak A, Schultz W. Dopamine reward prediction error responses reflect marginal utility. Curr Biol. 2014 Nov 3;24(21):2491-500. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.064. Epub 2014 Oct 2. PMID: 25283778; PMCID: PMC4228052. PDF
Lak A, Stauffer WR, Schultz W. Dopamine prediction error responses integrate subjective value from different reward dimensions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Feb 11;111(6):2343-8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1321596111. Epub 2014 Jan 22. PMID: 24453218; PMCID: PMC3926061. PDF
2006-2011
Stauffer WR, Lau PM, Bi GQ, Cui XT. Rapid modulation of local neural activity by controlled drug release from polymer-coated recording microelectrodes. J Neural Eng. 2011 Aug;8(4):044001. doi: 10.1088/1741-2560/8/4/044001. Epub 2011 Jun 2. PMID: 21633143. PDF
Zhang L, Stauffer WR, Jane EP, Sammak PJ, Cui XT. Enhanced differentiation of embryonic and neural stem cells to neuronal fates on laminin peptides doped polypyrrole. Macromol Biosci. 2010 Dec 8;10(12):1456-64. doi: 10.1002/mabi.201000176. Epub 2010 Oct 15. PMID: 20954199. PDF
Azemi E, Stauffer WR, Gostock MS, Lagenaur CF, Cui XT. Surface immobilization of neural adhesion molecule L1 for improving the biocompatibility of chronic neural probes: In vitro characterization. Acta Biomater. 2008 Sep;4(5):1208-17. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2008.02.028. Epub 2008 Mar 20. PMID: 18420473. PDF
Stauffer WR, Cui XT. Polypyrrole doped with 2 peptide sequences from laminin. Biomaterials. 2006 Apr;27(11):2405-13. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2005.10.024. Epub 2005 Dec 15. PMID: 16343612 PDF