publications

See below for some highlights of our work over the years (click photos or title to download published manuscripts). A full list of publications can be found on Pubmed or Google Scholar.

2018 - Present

Rapid emergence of latent knowledge in the sensory cortex drives learning

Céline Drieu, Ziyi Zhu, Ziyun Wang, Kylie Fuller, Aaron Wang, Sarah Elnozahy, Kishore V. Kuchibhotla
Nature, 2025

Spatially clustered neurons encode vocalization categories in the bat midbrain

Jennifer Lawlor, Melville J. Wohlgemuth, Cynthia F. Moss, Kishore V. Kuchibhotla
Nature Neuroscience, 2025

Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy

Ziyi Zhu and Kishore V. Kuchibhotla
Current Biology, 2024
Press: Newsweek, Popular Science, Times of London

Nature Neuroscience 2023

The cholinergic basal forebrain provides a parallel channel for state-dependent sensory signaling to auditory cortex

Fangchen Zhu, Sarah Elnozahy, Jennifer Lawlor, Kishore Kuchibhotla
Nature Neuroscience, 2023

Revealing abrupt transitions from goal-directed to habitual behavior

Sharlen Moore, Zyan Wang, Ziyi Zhu, Ruolan Sun, Angel Lee, Adam Charles, Kishore V. Kuchibhotla, Biorxiv, 2023 Under Revision

Starting from Zero: Task Learning in Completely Naïve Individuals

Aaron Wang, Lauren Williams, Oyindamola Ogunlade, Jorge Morales, Kishore Kuchibhotla, PsyArXiv, 2023 Under Revision

Neural encoding of sensory and behavioral complexity in the auditory cortex

Kuchibhotla, K.V. and Bathellier, B., Current Opinions in Neurobiology, 2018

 
 
 

select prior work

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Functions and dysfunctions of neocortical inhibitory neuron subtypes

Hattori, R*, Kuchibhotla, K* et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2017

Parallel processing of cortical inhibition enables context dependent behavior

Kuchibhotla K et al., Nature Neuroscience, 2017

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