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Laboratory of Michael Platt, Ph.D.MainLab PersonnelRecent Papers
Deaner, R.O., Shepherd, S.V., Platt, M.L. 2007. Familiarity accentuates gaze cuing in women but not men. Biol. Lett. 3:64-67.
Hayden, B.Y. and Platt, M.L. 2007. Temporal discounting predicts risk sensitivity in rhesus macaques. Current Biology 17(1):49-53.
Bendiksby, M.S. and Platt, M.L. 2006. Neural correlates of reward and attention in macaque area LIP. Neuropsychologia 44(12):2411-20.
Dean, H.L. and Platt, M.L. 2006. Allocentric spatial referencing of neuronal activity in macaque posterior cingulate cortex. J. Neuroscience 26(4):1117-27.
Hayden, B.Y. and Platt, M.L. 2006. Fool me once, shame on me--fool me twice, blame the ACC. Nat Neurosci. 9(7):857-9.
Huettel, S.A., Stowe, C.J., Gordon, E.M., Warner, B.T. and Platt, M.L.. 2006. Neural signatures of economic preferences for risk and ambiguity. Neuron 49(5):765-75.
Platt, M. 2006. Animal cognition: monkey meteorology. Current Biology 16(12):464-6.
Platt, M.L. 2006. Cognitive Neuroscience, in the Nature Encyclopedia of Life Science, Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Roitman, J.D., Brannon, E.M., Andrews, J.R. and Platt, M.L. 2006. Nonverbal representation of time and number in adults. Acta Psychol (Amst). 2006 Jun 5.
Shepherd, S.V. and Platt, M.L. 2006. Noninvasive telemetric gaze tracking in freely-moving socially-housed prosimian primates. Methods 38(3):185-94.
Shepherd, S.V., Deaner, R.O. and Platt, M.L. 2006. Social status gates social attention in monkeys. Current Biology 16(4):119-20.
Watson, K. and Platt, M.L. 2006. Fairness and the neurobiology of social cognition: Commentary on "Nonhuman species reactions to inequity and their implications for fairness" by Sarah Brosner. Journal of Social Justice Research 19(2):186-193.
Deaner, R.O., Khera, A.V. and Platt, M.L. 2005. Monkeys pay per view: Adaptive valuation of social images by rhesus macaques. Current Biology 15:543-8.
Long, A. and Platt, M. 2005. Decision making: the virtue of patience in primates. Current Biology 15(21):874-6.
McCoy, A.N. and Platt, M.L. 2005. Expectations and outcomes: Decision-making in the primate brain. J. Comp. Physiol. J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol. 191:201-11.
McCoy, A.N. and Platt, M.L. 2005. Risk-sensitive neurons in macaque posterior cingulate cortex. Nat. Neurosci. Volume 8 (9) 1220-1227.
Roberts, S. and Platt, M.L. 2005. Effects of isosexual pair-housing on biomedical implants and study participation in male macaques. Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science. Volume 44 (5) 13-18.
Dean, H.L., Crowley, J.C. and Platt, M.L. 2004. Visual and saccade-related activity in posterior cingulate cortex (CGp). J. Neurophysiol. 92:3056-68.
Platt, M.L. 2004. Cognition, in Neuroscience, ed. Purves et al., Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. Third edition.
Platt, M.L. 2004. Memory, in Neuroscience, ed. Purves et al.Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. Third edition.
Platt, M.L. 2004. Unpredictable primates and prefrontal cortex. Nature Neurosci. 7:319-20.
Deaner, R.O. and Platt, M.L. 2003. Reflexive social attention in monkeys and humans. Current Biol. 13:1609-1613.
McCoy, A.N., Crowley, J.C., Dean, H.L., Haghighian, G., and Platt, M.L. 2003. Saccade reward signals in posterior cingulate cortex. Neuron 40:1031-40.
Platt, M.L. 2003. Learning is bitter and sweet in ventral striatum. Neuron 38: 518-519.
Platt, M.L., Lau, B., and Glimcher, P.W. (2003). Situating the superior colliculus within the gaze control network. In The Oculomotor System: New Approaches for Studying Sensorimotor Integration, W.C. Hall and A. Moschovakis, eds. Boca Raton, Fl: CRC Press LLC. In Press
Platt, M.L. (2002) Caudate clues to rewarding cues. Neuron 33:316-8.
Platt, M.L. (2002) Neural correlates of decisions. Curr. Opin. Neurobiol. 12, 2:141-8.
Glimcher, P.W., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Platt, M.L., Bayer, H.M., Brown, M.A., and Handel, A.N. (2001) Application of neurosonography to experimental physiology. J. Neurosci. Methods 108:131-44.
Platt, M.L. and P.W. Glimcher (2000) Short-term changes in movement frequency do not alter the spatial tuning of saccade-related neurons in intraparietal cortex. Exp. Brain Res. 132:279-286.
Platt, M.L. and P.W. Glimcher (1999) Neural correlates of decision variables in parietal cortex. Nature 400:233-238.
Platt, M.L. and P.W. Glimcher (1998) Response fields of intraparietal neurons quantified with multiple saccadic targets. Exp. Brain. Res. 121:65-75.
Platt, M.L. and P.W. Glimcher (1997) Responses of intra-parietal neurons to saccadic targets and visual distractors. J. Neurophysiol. 78:1574-1589.
Platt, M.L, E.M. Brannon, T.L. Briese and J.A. French (1996) Differences in feeding ecology predict differences in performance between golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) and Wied's marmosets (Callithrix Kuhli) on spatial and visual memory tasks. Anim. Learn. Behav. 24:384-393.