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Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição (CMCC) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
completed his undergraduate degree in physics at the University of São Paulo (1998), his Masters in Physics (2001), and his Ph.D. in Neuroscience (2005) from the same University. From 2005 to 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of California at San Diego, and from 2008 to 2010, he was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is currently an Associated Professor in the Center for Mathematics, Computing, and Cognition at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC). His current line of research includes different aspects of timing and time perception, including electrophysiological experiments and computational modeling. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Dilemmas about staying with an action or changing to another permeate human life. However, the processes that govern how and how much we change our actions are far from understood. An experimental paradigm used with animals has given interesting clues: Midsession reversal learning. In this paradigm, the animal chooses between two distinct stimuli, S1 and S2. The choice of S1 is rewarded i…
The project involves the acquisition of equipment and adjustments to boost research at UFABC. For the Physics-Mathematics group, the acquisition of two computers aims to improve the existing infrastructure, facilitating research in theoretical physics and physics-mathematics, as well as promoting collaboration with the Università degli Studi di Bologna. In addition, the project will meet …
The Federal University of ABC (UFABC) is one of the new Brazilian federal universities, created by Law 11,145, on July 26, 2005. For this reason,Reason, the support of development agencies is essential for the development of research at the intended level of excellence. In the present proposal, we present a project for the use of the Institutional Infrastructure Costs for the Center for M…
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Temporal perception and the ability to time behaviour are crucial for animals to survive. Several authors posit that interval production within hundreds of milliseconds to tens of seconds is entrusted both to the striatum (STR) and prefrontal cortex (PFC). Our groups' recent results, on the other hand, point to a distinction in their roles during temporal learning: the PFC leads interval …
During regular brain activity, charge transfer between neurons gives rise to extracellular electric potential in neural tissue. These electric fluctuations can disrupt neighbor cells' activity, acting as a non-synaptic connection between neurons, called ephaptic coupling. Even though known for decades, ephaptic coupling effects still need to be quantified, particularly in large structures…
Time perception is a fundamental cognitive function to survive and adapt. Recently, several investigations have been suggesting the involvement of several regions and some types of neurons in tasks that require some temporal organization learning. Neurons that seem to encode a time interval were described on the hippocampus, thalamus, and prefrontal cortex. Furthermore, some investigation…
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Different brain regions relay information through electrical activity, frequently investigated in terms of individual action potentials (spikes) and local field potentials (LFP). Both spike and LFP activity evolve during learning, reflecting changes in synaptic strength underlying the learning processes. We designed a training protocol for rats in which animals learn to time an interval i…
Perceiving time is important to prepare a behavioral outcome, for example, a walking person needs to know whether he can cross a road or not by estimating if he will have enough time for it before a car comes. Understanding how we learn to time a particular interval is intrinsic to increase our comprehension of time perception and interval time acquisition. Different theories and studies …
Temporal processing is a crucial tool in organization of different events in memory systems. Evidences indicate hippocampal role in counting stimulus gap in a peak procedure paradigm. Recent electrophysiological studies show that hippocampal neurons respond selectively to gaps in stimuli of different durations. These cells were named time cells in reference to hippocampus place-cells and …
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