Publications

1- Tafazoli, S.*, Di Filippo, A.*, and Zoccolan, D. (2012). Transformation-Tolerant Object Recognition in Rats Revealed by Visual Priming. Journal of Neuroscience, 32, 21–34. Link

2- Tafazoli, S.*, Safaai, H.*, De Franceschi, G., Rosselli, F.B., Vanzella, W., Riggi, M., Buffolo, F., Panzeri, S., and Zoccolan, D. (2017). Emergence of transformation-tolerant representations of visual objects in rat lateral extrastriate cortex. eLife 6, e22794. (Highlighted as featured article of eLife) Link

3- Tafazoli, S.*, MacDowell, C.J.*, Che, Z., Letai, K.C., Steinhardt, C.R., and Buschman, T.J. (2020). Learning to control the brain through adaptive closed-loop patterned stimulation. Journal of Neural Engineering. 17, 056007. Link

4- MacDowell, C.J., Tafazoli, S., and Buschman, T.J. (2022). A Goldilocks theory of cognitive control: Balancing precision and efficiency with low-dimensional control states. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 76, 102606. Link

5- Muratore, P., Tafazoli, S., Piasini, E., Laio, A., and Zoccolan, D. (2022). Prune and distill: similar reformatting of image information along rat visual cortex and deep neural networks. NeurIPS, 2022. Link

6- Bouchacourt, F.*, Tafazoli, S.*, Mattar, M.G., Buschman, T.J., and Daw, N.D. (2022). Fast rule switching and slow rule updating in a perceptual categorization task. eLife 11, e82531. Link

7- MacDowell, C.J., Libby, A.*, Jahn, C.I.*, Tafazoli, S.*, and Buschman, T.J. (2023). Multiplexed Subspaces Route Neural Activity Across Brain-wide Networks. bioRxiv. Link

8- Tafazoli, S., Bouchacourt, F., Ardalan, A., Markov N.T., Uchimura, M., Mattar, M.G., Daw, N.D, Buschman T.J. Building Compositional Tasks with Shared Neural Subspaces. bioRxiv, February 1, 2024. Link

9- Schottdorf, M., Rich, P. D., Diamanti, M.E., Lin, A., Tafazoli, S., Nieh, E.H, and Thiberge, S.Y., TWINKLE: An Open-Source Two-Photon Microscope for Teaching and Research, bioRxiv, September 23, 2024. Link