Murugan Lab

N. F. Parker, A. Baidya, J. Cox, L. M. Haetzel, A. Zhukovskaya, M. Murugan, B. Engelhard, M. Goldman, I.B.Witten . Choice-selective sequences dominate in cortical relative to thalamic inputs to NAc to support reinforcement learning (2022). Cell Reports

C Cameron, M. Murugan, CY Choi JY,I.B. Witten.Increased Cocaine Motivation Is Associated with Degraded Spatial and Temporal Representations in IL-NAc Neurons (2019). Neuron. 

M. Murugan, H.J. Jang, M. Park, E.M. Miller, J. Cox, J.P. Taliaferro, N.F. Parker, V. Bhave, H. Hur, Y. Liang, A.R. Nectow, J.W. Pillow1, I.B. Witten. Combined social and spatial coding in a descending projection from the prefrontal cortex (2017). Cell. 

M. Murugan, S. Harward, C. Scharff, R. Mooney. Diminished FoxP2 levels affect dopaminergic modulation of corticostriatal signaling important to song variability (2013). Neuron (Cover article).

T.F. Roberts, S.M.H. Gobes, M. Murugan, B.P. Olveczky, R. Mooney. Motor circuits are required to encode a sensory model for imitative learning (2012). Nature Neuroscience.

M. Tanaka, J.S. Alvarado, M. Murugan, & R. Mooney. Focal expression of mutant huntingtin in the songbird basal ganglia disrupts cortico-basal ganglia networks and vocal sequences (2016). PNAS.