McGinty Laboratory for systems neuroscience and neuroeconomics

Value signals in the frontal lobe and basal ganglia

Behavioral read-out from population value signals in primate orbitofrontal cortex
VB McGinty & SM Lupkin
Nature Neuroscience. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-023-01473-7 (2023)

Monkeys exhibit human-like gaze biases in economic decisions
SM Lupkin & VB McGinty
eLife. doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78205 (2023)

Overt attention towards appetitive cues enhances their subjective value, independent of orbitofrontal cortex activity
VB McGinty
eNeuro. 6(6) ENEURO.0230-19.2019 1–19 (2019)

Orbitofrontal cortex value signals depend on fixation location during free viewing
VB McGinty, A Rangel, WT Newsome
Neuron 90 (6), 1299-1311. (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 78 (5), 910–922. (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 118 (5), 2549-2567. (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 18 (8), 1961-1972. (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 101 (4), 1823-1835. (2009)

Activity-dependent depression of medial prefrontal cortex inputs to accumbens neurons by the basolateral amygdala
VB McGinty, AA Grace
Neuroscience 162 (4), 1429-1436. (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 225 (1), 348-357. (2011)

How the midbrain helps us decide
VB McGinty
Neuron 97 (1), 5-7. (2018)