Value signals in the frontal lobe and basal ganglia
Using economic value signals from primate prefrontal cortex in neuro-engineering applications
TC Rouse, SM Lupkin, & VB McGinty
Journal of Neural Engineering (2025)
Orbitofrontal high-gamma reflects spike-dissociable value and decision mechanisms
D Sharma, SM Lupkin, & VB McGinty
Journal of Neuroscience (2025)
Behavioral read-out from population value signals in primate orbitofrontal cortex
VB McGinty & SM Lupkin
Nature Neuroscience (2023)
Monkeys exhibit human-like gaze biases in economic decisions
SM Lupkin & VB McGinty
eLife (2023)
Overt attention towards appetitive cues enhances their subjective value, independent of orbitofrontal cortex activity
VB McGinty
eNeuro (2019)
Orbitofrontal cortex value signals depend on fixation location during free viewing
VB McGinty, A Rangel, WT Newsome
Neuron (2016)
Invigoration of reward seeking by cue and proximity encoding in the nucleus accumbens
VB McGinty, S Lardeux, SA Taha, JJ Kim, SM Nicola
Neuron 2013)
Limbic-motor integration by neural excitations and inhibitions in the nucleus accumbens
SE Morrison, VB McGinty, J du Hoffman, SM Nicola
Journal of Neurophysiology (2017)
Information flow in reward circuitry
Selective activation of medial prefrontal-to-accumbens projection neurons by amygdala stimulation and Pavlovian conditioned stimuli
VB McGinty, AA Grace
Cerebral Cortex (2007)
Timing-dependent regulation of evoked spiking in nucleus accumbens neurons by integration of limbic and prefrontal cortical inputs
VB McGinty, AA Grace
Journal of Neurophysiology (2009)
Activity-dependent depression of medial prefrontal cortex inputs to accumbens neurons by the basolateral amygdala
VB McGinty, AA Grace
Neuroscience (2009)
Reviews and commentary
Emerging, reemerging, and forgotten brain areas of the reward circuit: Notes from the 2010 Motivational Neural Networks conference
VB McGinty, BY Hayden, SR Heilbronner, EC Dumont, SM Graves, MM Mirrione, J du Hoffmann, GC Sartor, RA España, EZ Millan
Behavioural brain research (2011)
How the midbrain helps us decide
VB McGinty
Neuron (2018)
Previous Work
fMRI activation in a visual-perception task: network of areas detected using the general linear model and independent components analysis
VD Calhoun, T Adali, VB McGinty, JJ Pekar, TD Watson, GD Pearlson
NeuroImage (2001)
Different activation dynamics in multiple neural systems during simulated driving
VD Calhoun, JJ Pekar, VB McGinty, T Adali, TD Watson, GD Pearlson
Human brain mapping (2002)
Alcohol intoxication effects on visual perception: an fMRI study
VD Calhoun, D Altschul, VB McGinty, R Shih, D Scott, E Sears, GD Pearlson
Human brain mapping (2004)
Assessment of intoxicated driving with a simulator: A validation study with on road driving
VB McGinty, RA Shih, ES Garrett, VD Calhoun, GD Pearlson
Proc. Human Centered Trans. Sim. Conf. (2001)
Investigation of Marinol (THC) effects upon fMRI activation during active and passive driving using independent component analysis and SPM
VD Calhoun, VB McGinty, JJ Pekar, TD Watson, GD Pearlson
NeuroImage (2001)