Publications

Leaman K, Rodrigeuz NY, Ahjua A, Basu D, McKim TH, Desrochers TM (2025). Monkey lateral prefrontal cortex subregions differentiate between perceptual exposure to visual stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 37(4), 802-814. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_02291. Web.

Ahuja A, Rodrigeuz NY, Ashok AK, Serre T, Desrochers TM, Sheinberg D (2024). Monkeys engage in visual simulation to solve complex problems. doi:2024.02.21.581495. Web. PDF.

Rodriguez NY, Ahuja A, Basu D, Desrochers TM (2024). Monkey dorsolateral prefrontal cortex shows anatomically and functionally specific responses to sequential but not temporal or image changes. doi:2024.02.13.580192. Web. PDF.

Doyle H, Boisseau CL, Garnaat SL, Rasmussen SA, Desrochers TM (2023). Abstract task sequence initiation deficit dissociates anxiety disorders from obsessive-compulsive disorder and healthy controls. doi:10.31234/osf.io/shqxc. Web. PDF.

Rodriguez NY, McKim TH, Basu D, Ahuja A, Desrochers TM (2023). Monkey dorsolateral prefrontal cortex represents abstract visual sequences during a no-report task. Journal of Neuroscience. 43(15), 2741-2755. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2058-22.2023. Web. PDF.

Conen KE, Desrochers TM (2022). The neural basis of behavioral sequences in cortical and subcortical circuits. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.013.421. Web. PDF.

Desrochers TM, Ahuja A, Maechler MR, Shires J, Rodriguez N, Berryhill ME (2022). Caught in the ACTS: Defining Abstract Cognitive Task Sequences as an Independent Process. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 34:1103-1113. Web. PDF.

McKim TH, Desrochers TM (2022). Reward Value Enhances Sequence Monitoring Ramping Dynamics as Ending Rewards Approach in the Rostrolateral Prefrontal Cortex. eNeuro 9:ENEURO.0003-00-2022. Web. PDF.

Conen KE, Desrochers TM (2022). Unpacking self-ordered sequences. Neuron 110:566-568. Web. PDF

The PRIMatE Data and Resource Exchange (PRIME-DRE) Global Collaboration Workshop and Consortium (2022). Toward next-generation primate neuroscience: A collaboration-based strategic plan for integrative neuroimaging. Neuron 110(1):16-20. Web. PDF.

Ahuja A, Desrochers TM, Sheinberg, DL (2021). A Role for Visual Areas in Physics Simulations. Neuroscience. Web. PDF.

Berryhill ME, Desrochers TM (2021). Addressing the Gender Gap in Research: Insights from a Women in Neuroscience Conference. Trends in Neurosciences 44:419-421. Web. PDF.

Trach JE, McKim TH, Desrochers TM. (2021). Abstract sequential task control is facilitated by practice and embedded motor sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47:1638-1659. Web. PDF.

Szymula KP, Pasqualetti, F, Graybiel AM, Desrochers TM*, Bassett DS*. (2020) Habit learning supported by efficiently controlled network dynamics in naive macaque monkeys. arXiv 2006.14565 *These authors contributed equally to this work.

Badre, D., & Desrochers, T.M. (2019). Hierarchical cognitive control and the frontal lobes. Handbook of Clinical Neurology. 163:165-177. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-804281-6.00009-4. Web. PDF.

Desrochers, T.M. & McKim, T.H. (2019). What is a sequence? The neural mechanisms of perceptual, motor, and task sequence access species and their interaction with addiction. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Neuroscience. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190264086.013.289. Web. PDF.

Burnett, C.J., Funderburk, S.C., Navarrete, J., Sabol, A., Liang-Guallpa, J., Desrochers, T.M., Krashes, M.J. (2019). Need-based prioritization of behavior. eLife; 8e44527. doi:10.7554/eLife.44527. Web. PDF.

Desrochers, T.M., Collins, A. G. E., & Badre, D. (2019). Sequential control underlies robust ramping dynamics in the rostrolateral prefrontal cortex. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(8), 1471-1483. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1060-18.2018. Web. PDF.

Desrochers, T.M. (2018). SRT is as easy as 12AKDB3. Nature Human Behavior. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0473-6. Web. PDF.

Desrochers, T.M., Burk, D.C., Badre, D. & Sheinberg, D.L. (2016). The monitoring and control of task sequences in human and non-human primates. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 9:185. doi:10.3389/fnsys.2015.00185. Web. Ebook. PDF.

Desrochers, T.M., Chatham, C.H. & Badre, D. (2015). The necessity of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex for higher-level sequential behavior. Neuron. 87(6), 1357-1368. PMID: 26402612. Web. PDF.

Desrochers, T.M., Amemori, K. & Graybiel, A.M. (2015). Habit learning by naïve macaques is marked by response sharpening of striatal neurons representing the cost and outcome of acquired action sequences. Neuron. 87(4), 853-68. PMID: 26291166. Web. PDF.

Desrochers, T.M. & Badre, D. (2012). Finding parallels in fronto-striatal organization. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(8), 407-8. PMCID: PMC3432934. Web. PDF.

Feingold, J.*, Desrochers, T.M.*, Fujii, N.*, Harlan, R., Tierney, P.L., Shimazu, H., Amemori, K. & Graybiel, A.M. (2012). A system for recording neural activity chronically and simultaneously from multiple cortical and subcortical regions in non-human primates. Journal of Neurophysiology, 107(7), 1979-95. PMCID: PMC3331661. *these authors contributed equally to the work. Web. PDF.

Desrochers, T.M., Jin, D.Z., Goodman, N.D. & Graybiel, A.M. (2010). Optimal habits can develop spontaneously through sensitivity to local cost. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 107(47), 20512-7. PMCID: PMC2996716. Commentary. Cover. PDF.

Repa, J.C., Muller, J., Apergis, J., Desrochers, T.M., Zhou, Y. & LeDoux, J.E. (2001). Two different lateral amygdala cell populations contribute to the initiation and storage of memory. Nature Neuroscience, 4(7), 724-31. PMID: 11426229. Web. PDF.