2021 –
Schlingloff D, Hangya B, Pinto L. (2023) News and views: A cholinergic auditory pathway. Nat. Neurosci. 26:726-728.
Luo JK & Pinto L. (2022) Preview: Genetically tagging cholinergic diversity. Neuron, 110:3650-3652.
Pinto L, Tank DW#, Brody CD#. (2022) Multiple timescales of sensory-evidence accumulation across the dorsal cortex. eLIFE, 11:e70263. #equal senior author contributions.
Bolkan SS*, Stone IR*, Pinto L, Ashwood ZC, Garcia JMI, Herman AL, Singh P, Bandi A, Cox J, Zimmerman CA, Cho JR, Engelhard BE, Pillow JW, Witten IB. (2022) Opponent control of behavior by dormedial striatal pathways depends on task demands and internal state. Nat. Neurosci., 25:345-357. *equal contributions.
Nieh EH*, Schottdorf M*, Freeman NW, Low RJ, Lewallen S, Koay S, Pinto L, Gauthier JL, Brody CD#, Tank DW#. (2021) Geometry of abstract learned knowledge in the hippocampus. Nature, 585:80-84. *equal contributions; #equal senior author contributions.
2011 – 2020
Pinto L, Rajan K, DePasquale B, Thiberge SY, Tank DW#, Brody CD#. (2019) Task-dependent changes in the large-scale dynamics and necessity of cortical regions. Neuron, 104: 810-824. #equal senior author contributions.
Preview by Gupta PK & Murphy TH. Cortex-wide computations in complex decision making in mice. Neuron, 104: 623.
Pinto L*, Koay S*, Engelhard B, Yoon AM, Deverett B, Thiberge SY, Witten I, Tank DW#, Brody CD#. (2018) An accumulation-of-evidence task using visual pulses for mice navigating in virtual reality. Front. Behav. Neurosci., 12:36. *equal contributions; #equal senior author contributions.
Minces VH, Pinto L, Dan Y, Chiba AA. (2017) Cholinergic shaping of signal, noise and correlations. PNAS, 114: 5725-5730.
Harrison TC*, Pinto L*, Brock JN, Dan Y. (2016) Calcium imaging of basal forebrain activity during innate and learned behaviors. Front. Neural Circuits, 10: 36. *equal contributions.
Cox J, Pinto L, Dan Y. (2016) Calcium imaging of sleep-wake-related neuronal activity in the dorsal pons. Nat. Comm., 7:1-7.
Pinto L & Dan Y. (2015) Cell-type-specific activity in prefrontal cortex during goal-directed behavior. Neuron, 87:437-450.
Preview by Estebanez L, Kremkow J, Poulet JFA. (2015) Matching cell type to function in cortical circuits. Neuron, 87:249-251.
Pinto L*, Goard MJ*, Estandian DM, Xu M, Kwan AC, Lee S-H, Harrison TC, Feng G, Dan Y. (2013) Fast modulation of visual perception by basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. Nat. Neurosci., 16(12): 1857-1863. *equal contributions.
< 2011
Pinto L & Baron J. (2010) Spatiotemporal frequency tuning dynamics of neurons in the owl visual wulst. J. Neurophysiol. 103(6): 3424-3436.
Pinto L & Baron J. (2009) Spatiotemporal frequency and speed tuning in the owl visual wulst. Eur. J. Neurosci., 30(7): 1251-1268.
Baron J, Pinto L, Dias MO, Lima B, Neuenschwander S. (2007) Directional responses of visual wulst neurones to grating and plaid patterns in the awake owl. Eur. J. Neurosci. 26(7): 1950 – 1968.