Publications

2023

• [] Gutierrez, R., & de Lafuente, V. (2023). Packing Mouthfeel Perception: Overlapping Representations of Pungency, Astringency, and Sweet Taste in the Human Insular Cortex. Neuroscience, S0306-4522.

• [] Lopez-Virgen, V., Macias, M., Rodriguez-Moreno, P., Olivares-Moreno, R., de Lafuente, V., & Rojas-Piloni, G. (2023). Motor cortex projections to red and pontine nuclei have distinct roles during movement in the mouse. Neuroscience Letters, 137280.

2022

• [PDF] Diaz-deLeon, G., Alvarez, M., Bayones, L., Zainos, A., Zizumbo, J., Parra, S., ... & De Lafuente, V. (2022). An abstract categorical decision code in the dorsal premotor cortex. PNAS.

• [PDF] Mercado, K., & de Lafuente, V. (2022). Prefrontal and Premotor Cortices Encode Inference Judgements. Neuroscience

• [PDF] Salgado-Ménez, M., & de Lafuente, V. (2021). Purkinje Cells are Key for Rhythmic Predictions in the Cerebellum. Neuroscience

2021

• [PDF] Espinoza-Monroy, M., & de Lafuente, V. (2021). Discrimination of Regular and Irregular Rhythms Explained by a Time Difference Accumulation Model. 

Journal of Neuroscience 

• [PDF] de Lafuente, V. (2021). Memory Consolidation during Sleep Might be Regulated by the Locus Coeruleus. 

Comment in Journal of Neuroscience 

2020

• [PDF] Hernández-Pérez, R., Rojas-Hortelano, E., & de Lafuente, V. (2020). Integrating somatosensory information over time. Journal of Neuroscience 

2018

• [PDF] Fonseca, E., de Lafuente, V., Simon, S. A., & Gutierrez, R. (2018). Sucrose intensity coding and decision-making in rat gustatory cortices. Elife

• [PDF] Cadena-Valencia, J., García-Garibay, O., Merchant, H., Jazayeri, M., & de Lafuente, V. (2018). Entrainment and maintenance of an internal metronome in the supplementary motor area. Elife

• [PDF] De Lafuente, V. (2018). Intracortical Microstimulation: Regaining the senses of touch and movement. Elife

2017

• [PDF] Sarno, S., de Lafuente, V., Romo, R., & Parga, N. (2017). Dopamine reward prediction error signal codes the temporal evaluation of a perceptual decision report. PNAS

• [PDF] Hernández-Pérez, R., Cuaya, L. V., Rojas-Hortelano, E., Reyes-Aguilar, A., Concha, L., & De Lafuente, V. (2017). Tactile object categories can be decoded from the parietal and lateral-occipital cortices. Journal of Neuroscience

2016

• [PDF] García-Garibay, O., Cadena-Valencia, J., Merchant, H., & de Lafuente, V. (2016). Monkeys share the human ability to internally maintain a temporal rhythm. Frontiers in psychology

• [PDF] Shadlen, M. N., Kiani, R., Newsome, W. T., Gold, J. I., Wolpert, D. M., Zylberberg, A., ... & Roitman, J. (2016). Comment on “Single-trial spike trains in parietal cortex reveal discrete steps during decision-making”. Science

2015

• Carnevale, F., de Lafuente, V., Romo, R., Barak, O., & Parga, N. (2015). Dynamic control of response criterion in premotor cortex during perceptual detection under temporal uncertainty. Neuron.

• de Lafuente, V., Jazayeri, M., & Shadlen, M. N. (2015). Representation of accumulating evidence for a decision in two parietal areas. Journal of Neuroscience.

• García-Garibay, O. B., & de Lafuente, V. (2015). The Müller-Lyer illusion as seen by an artificial neural network. 

Frontiers in computational neuroscience.

2014

• Rojas-Hortelano, E., Concha, L., & de Lafuente, V. (2014). The parietal cortices participate in encoding, short-term memory, and decision-making related to tactile shape. 

Journal of Neurophysiology.

• de Lafuente, V., & Romo, R. (2014). How confident do you feel?. Neuron.

2013

• Carnevale, F., de Lafuente, V., Romo, R., & Parga, N. (2013). An optimal decision population code that accounts for correlated variability unambiguously predicts a subject’s choice. 

Neuron.

• Romo, R., & de Lafuente, V. (2013). Conversion of sensory signals into perceptual decisions. 

Progress in neurobiology.

2012

• Romo, R., Lemus, L., & de Lafuente, V. (2012). Sense, memory, and decision-making in the somatosensory cortical network. Current opinion in neurobiology

• Merchant, H., de Lafuente, V., Pena-Ortega, F., & Larriva-Sahd, J. (2012). Functional impact of interneuronal inhibition in the cerebral cortex of behaving animals. Progress in neurobiology.

• Carnevale, F., de Lafuente, V., Romo, R., & Parga, N. (2012). Internal signal correlates neural populations and biases perceptual decision reports. PNAS

• de Lafuente, V., & Romo, R. (2012). Dopaminergic activity coincides with stimulus detection by the frontal lobe. Neuroscience.