Publications

​​Google scholar profile.

NEUROSCIENCE

Articles

Metastable attractors explain the variable timing of stable behavioral action sequences
S. Recanatesi*, U. Pereira*, M. Murakami, Z. Mainen*, L. Mazzucato*.
2022, Neuron 110, 1–15. Open Access link.
[code] [biorxiv]

• Press on Around the O: "Researchers predict rat behaviors from brain activity"

Neural mechanisms underlying the temporal organization of naturalistic animal behavior
L. Mazzucato
[arXiv]

Estimating the Unique Information of Continuous Variables in Recurrent Networks
Ari Pakman, Amin Nejatbakhsh, Dar Gilboa, Abdullah Makkeh, Luca Mazzucato, Michael Wibral, Elad Schneidman.
NeurIPS 2022.
arXiv:2102.00218.

State-dependent control of cortical processing speed via gain modulation
David Wyrick, L. Mazzucato.
Journal of Neuroscience 41 (18), 3988-4005. [pdf]
[biorxiv][simulation code][data analysis code]

A reservoir of timescales in random neuronal networks
Merav Stern, Nicu Istrate, Luca Mazzucato, biorxiv.

Predicting perturbation effects from resting state activity using functional causal flow
A. Nejatbakhsh*, F. Fumarola*, S. Esteki, T. Toyoizumi, R. Kiani, L. Mazzucato,
https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.23.394916
[pdf]

Hippocampal network reorganization underlies the formation of a temporal association memory
M. S. Ahmed*, J. B. Priestley*, A. Castro, F. Stefanini, E. M. Balough, E. Lavoie, L. Mazzucato, S. Fusi, A. Losonczy Neuron, 2020.
[pdf]

• Neuron Preview: "Tracing a Path for Memory in the Hippocampus" [pdf]

Cortical computations via metastable activity
G. La Camera, A. Fontanini, L. Mazzucato.
Current Opinion in Neurobiology 58, 37-45, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.06.007
[article] [arxiv] [pdf]

Expectation-induced modulation of metastable activity underlies faster coding of sensory stimuli
​​​L. Mazzucato, G. La Camera*, A. Fontanini*. 
Nature Neuroscience 2019, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0364-9 
[article] [biorxiv] [code] [pdf] [suppl]
 
​Press:

• Quanta magazine "Brains Speed Up Perception by Guessing What’s Next"
• MedicalXpress: "Scientists create a model for the neural basis of expectation"
• Futurity: "Is this how expecting a taste affects the brain?"

Changes in Effective Hippocampal Network Coupling Mediate Learning and Memory of Associations Between Temporally Discontiguous Stimuli
M. Ahmed*, J. B. Priestley*, A. Castro, F. Stefanini, E. Balough, E. Lavoie, L. Mazzucato, S. Fusi, A. Losonczy
Biological Psychiatry 83 (9), S115. doi:10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.02.304.

Spike–based reinforcement learning for temporal stimulus segmentation and decision making
L. Le Donne, L. Mazzucato, R. Urbanczik, W. Senn, G. La Camera
CWS Workshop, NIPS 2016.

Stimuli reduce the dimensionality of cortical activity
L. Mazzucato, A. Fontanini, G. La Camera
Front. in Syst. Neuro. 2016; 10:11. doi:0.3389/fnsys.2016.00011.  
[arxiv:1509.03621] - [download pdf]

Dynamics of multistable states during ongoing and evoked cortical activity
L. Mazzucato, A. Fontanini*, G. La Camera*
J Neurosci. 2015 Nov 27;33(48):18966-78. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4819-14.2015. 
[arXiv:1508.00165] - [download pdf]

Processing of hedonic and chemosensory features of taste in medial prefrontal and insular networks
A. Jezzini*, L. Mazzucato*, G. La Camera, A. Fontanini
J Neurosci. 2013 Nov 27;33(48):18966-78. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2974-13.2013. 
​[download pdf]​

​Conference Abstracts

2022

• L. Papadopoulos, M. Wehr, L. Mazzucato, "Metastable circuit dynamics explains optimal coding of auditory stimuli at moderate arousals," Cosyne 2022 (contributed talk).
  
• M. Stern, N. Istrate, L. Mazzucato, "A reservoir of timescales in random neural networks,” Cosyne 2022 (contributed talk).
  
• D. Wyrick, N. Cain, R. Larsen, M. Valley, J. Lecoq, H. Choi, M. Garrett, L. Mazzucato, "Differential encoding of temporal context and expectation across the visual hierarchy,” Cosyne 2022.
  
• B. Souza, J. Klee, L. Mazzucato, F. P. Battaglia, "Neural sequence representation of stimulus value, response and surprise in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex,” Cosyne 2021
  
• L. Papadopoulos, M. Wehr, L. Mazzucato, "Metastable circuit dynamics explains optimal coding of auditory stimuli at moderate arousals," American Physical Society March Meeting (contributed talk).
  

2021

• "A reservoir of timescales in a random neural network" by N. Istrate, M. Stern  and L. Mazzucato, Bernstein Confererence [video abstract by Nicu]
  
• "A network model of contextual modulations of cortical processing" by L. Papadopoulos, M. Wehr and L. Mazzucato, Bernstein Confererence.
• "Behavioral task requiring rapid shifts in context-dependent sensory valuations" by D. Hulsey, L. Mazzucato, M. Smear, D. McCormick, S. Jaramillo. BRAIN Initiative Meeting 2021 (virtual).
• "Neural circuitry of predictive coding in mouse visual cortex" by N. Cain, H. Choi, M. Garrett, R. Larsen, J. Lecoq, L. Mazzucato, M. Valley, D. Wyrick, BRAIN Initiative Meeting 2021 (virtual).
• "Pan-cortical state dependent activity and functional connectivity exhibit complex spatiotemporal structure during spontaneous and stimulus-evoked behavior" by E. Vickers, D. Wyrick, P. Parker, C. Niell, L. Mazzucato, D. McCormick, BRAIN Initiative Meeting 2021 (virtual).
• "Brain states and flexible behavior" by D. McCormick, C. Niell, L. Mazzucato, S. Jaramillo, M. Wehr, M. Smear, D. Hulsey, E. Vickers, D. Wyrick, D. Nestvogel, S.Y. Jo, BRAIN Initiative Meeting 2021 (virtual).
• "Predicting Perturbation Effects from Resting State Activity Using Functional Causal Flow" by Amin Nejatbakhsh, Francesco Fumarola, Saleh Esteki, Taro Toyoizumi, Roozbeh Kiani, Luca Mazzucato, Cosyne 2021 [Poster & Video]
• "Synaptic plasticity shapes top-down modulation of cortical circuits with multiple interneuron types" by Marcel Jüngling, Leonidas Richter, Luca Mazzucato, Julijana Gjorgjieva, Cosyne 2021
• "Emergence of sensory and memory representations in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of mice" by B. Souza, J. Klee, L. Mazzucato, F. P. Battaglia. Cosyne 2021 [Poster]

2020

• M. Stern, N. Istrate, L. Mazzucato, "An ethological model of visual distance estimation in the mouse", Society for Neuroscience (virtual), 2020.
• P.R.L. Parker, E.T.T. Abe, N.T. Beatie, E.S. Leonard, D.M. Martins, S. Sharp, D. Wyrick, L. Mazzucato, and C.M. Niell, "Multiple Timescales of Activity in Recurrent Neural Networks with Clustered Connectivity", (selected for a talk), DeepMath, 2020.
• B. C. Souza, J. Klee, L. Mazzucato, F.P. Battaglia, "Emergence of sensory and memory representations during trace conditioning in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of mice", Bernstein Conference, 2020, Berlin.
• D. Wyrick, L. Mazzucato, "State-dependent control of cortical processing speed via gain modulation", Bernstein Conference, 2020, Berlin.
• N. Istrate, M. Stern, L. Mazzucato, "Heterogeneity of timescales in recurrent networks with clustered connectivity", Bernstein Conference, 2020, Berlin.
• M. Stern, N. Istrate, L. Mazzucato, "Emergence of Slow Timescales In Highly Chaotic Random Neural Networks", (selected for a talk), ICMNS, 2020.
• D. Wyrick, L. Mazzucato, "State-dependent control of cortical processing speed via gain modulation", ICMNS, 2020.
• D. Wyrick, L. Mazzucato, "Controlling processing speed via cell-type specific perturbations in spiking neural circuits", CoSyNe, 2020, Denver.
• S. Recanatesi, U. Pereira, M. Murakami, Z. Mainen, L. Mazzucato, "Metastable attractors in secondary motor cortex underlie self-initiated behavior", CoSyNe, 2020, Denver.
• N. Istrate, M. Stern, L. Mazzucato, "Heterogeneity of timescales in recurrent networks with clustered connectivity", CoSyNe, 2020, Denver.
• N. Istrate, M. Stern, L. Mazzucato, "Heterogeneity of timescales in recurrent networks with clustered connectivity", American Physical Society March Meeting, 2020, Denver.

2019

• S. Recanatesi, U. Pereira, M. Murakami, Z. Mainen, L. Mazzucato, "Metastable attractors in secondary motor cortex underlie self-initiated behavior", Bernstein Conference, Berlin, 2019.
• J. B. Priestley*, M. Ahmed*, A. Castro, F. Stefanini, E. Balough, E. Lavoie, L. Mazzucato, S. Fusi, A. Losonczy, "Changes in effective network coupling mediate memory across time in the hippocampus", CoSyNe, 2018, Denver.

2018 and earlier

• L. Mazzucato, A. Jezzini, A. Fontanini, G. La Camera*, G. Mongillo*, CNS, Seattle, 2018.
• ​L. Mazzucato, G. La Camera*, A. Fontanini*, Areadne, Santorini, Greece, 2018.
• ​L. Mazzucato, G. La Camera*, A. Fontanini*, Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics, Capbreton, 2017.
• ​L. Mazzucato, G. La Camera*, A. Fontanini*, Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Columbia University, 2017.
• ​L. Mazzucato, G. La Camera*, A. Fontanini*, International Conference on Mathematical  Neuroscience, 2017, Boulder.
• L. Mazzucato, G. La Camera, A. Fontanini, Achems, 2017, New Orleans.
• L. Mazzucato, G. La Camera*, A. Fontanini*, Sense2Synapse, 2017, The Rockefeller University, New York.
• L. Mazzucato, G. La Camera*, A. Fontanini*, American Physical Society March Meeting, 2017, New Orleans.
• L. Mazzucato, G. La Camera*, A. Fontanini*, CoSyNe, 2017, Salt Lake City (peer reviewed).
• L. Mazzucato, A. Fontanini, G. La Camera, American Physical Society March Meeting, 2016, Baltimore.
• L. Mazzucato, A. Fontanini*, G. La Camera*, CoSyNe, 2015, Salt Lake City (peer reviewed).
• L. Mazzucato, A. Fontanini*, G. La Camera*, ICTP  School on Quantitative Biology, 2014, Trieste, Italy.
• L. Mazzucato, A. Fontanini*, G. La Camera*, Society for Neuroscience, 2014, Washington, DC.
• L. Mazzucato, A. Fontanini*, G. La Camera*, Society for Neuroscience, 2013, Washington, DC.

Conference Proceedings

• Spiking model of expectation in taste processing
  L. Mazzucato, A. Fontanini, G. La Camera
  Chemical Senses, Vol. 43. No. 4. Great Clarendon St, Oxford OX2 6DP, England: Oxford Univ Press, 2018.
• Dynamics of ongoing and evoked neural activity in the gustatory cortex
  L. Mazzucato, A. Fontanini, G. La Camera
  ​Chemical Senses, Vol. 40. No. 7. Great Clarendon St, Oxford OX2 6DP, England: Oxford Univ Press, 2015.

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PHYSICS & MATH

Articles

• L. Mazzucato, Superstrings in AdS , Phys. Rept. 521 (2012) 1-68. doi: 10.1016/j.physrep.2012.08.001. [arXiv:1104.2604]
• L. Mazzucato and B. C. Vallilo, The Konishi multiplet at strong coupling, J High Energy Phys. 1012 (2011) 029. doi: 10.1007/JHEP12(2011)029. [arXiv:1102.1219]
• M. R. Douglas, L. Mazzucato and S. Razamat, Holographic dual of free field theory, Phys. Rev. D 83 (2011) 071701. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.071701. [arXiv:1011.4926]
• N. Berkovits and L. Mazzucato, Taming the b-antighost with Ramond- Ramond flux, J High Energy Phys. 1011 (2010) 019. doi: 10.1007/JHEP11(2010)019. [arXiv:1004.5140]
• B. Keren-Zur, L. Mazzucato and Y. Oz, Dark matter and pseudo-flat directions in weakly coupled SUSY breaking sectors, J High Energy Phys. 0909 (2009) 041. doi: 10.1088/1126- 6708/2009/09/041. [arXiv:0906.5586]
• L. Mazzucato and B. C. Vallilo, On the non-renormalization of the AdS radius, J High Energy Phys. 0909 (2009) 056. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/09/056. [arXiv:0906.4572]
• L. Mazzucato, Y. Oz and S. Theisen, Non-relativistic branes, J High Energy Phys. 0904 (2009) 073. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/073. [arXiv:0810.3673]
• B. Keren-Zur, L. Mazzucato and Y. Oz, Direct mediation and a visible metastable su- persymmetry breaking sector, J High Energy Phys. 0810 (2008) 099. doi: 10.1088/1126- 6708/2008/10/099. ​[arXiv:0807.4543]
• L. Mazzucato, Y. Oz and S. Yankielowicz, Supersymmetry breaking vacua from M-theory fivebranes, J High Energy Phys. 0711 (2007) 094. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/094. [arXiv:0709.2491]
• I. Adam, A. Dekel, L. Mazzucato and Y. Oz, Integrability of type II superstrings on Ramond- Ramond backgrounds in various dimensions, J High Energy Phys. 0706 (2007) 085. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/06/085. [arXiv:hep-th/0702083]
• I. Adam, P.A. Grassi, L. Mazzucato, Y. Oz and S. Yankielowicz, Non-critical pure spinor superstrings, J High Energy Phys. 0703 (2007) 091. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/03/091. [arXiv:hep-th/0605118]
• L. Mazzucato, Remarks on the analytic structure of supersymmetric effective actions, J High Energy Phys. 0512 (2005) 026. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/12/026. [arXiv:hep-th/0508234]
• L. Mazzucato, Chiral rings, anomalies and electric-magnetic duality, J High Energy Phys. 0411, 020 (2004). doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/11/020. [arXiv:hep-th/0408240]
• G. Bertoldi, S. Bolognesi, M. Matone, L. Mazzucato and Y. Nakayama, The Liouville geometry of N = 2 instantons and the moduli of punctured spheres, J High Energy Phys. 0405, 075 (2004). doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2004/05/075. [arXiv:hep-th/0405117]
• M. Matone and L. Mazzucato, On the chiral ring of N=1 supersymmetric gauge theories, J High Energy Phys. 0310, 011 (2003). doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/10/011. [arXiv:hep-th/0307130]
• M. Matone and L. Mazzucato, Branched matrix models and the scales of supersymmetric gauge theories, J High Energy Phys. 0307, 015 (2003). doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/07/015. [arXiv:hep-th/0305225]
• M. Matone, L. Mazzucato, I. Oda, D. Sorokin and M. Tonin, The superembedding origin of the Berkovits pure spinor covariant quantization of superstrings, Nucl. Phys. B 639, 182-202 (2002). doi: 10.1016/S0550-3213(02)00562-X. [arXiv:hep-th/0206104]

Conference Proceedings

• L. Mazzucato, B. C. Vallilo, Anomalous Dimensions at Strong Coupling, Eleventh Workshop on Non-Perturbative QCD, Institut Astrophysique de Paris, June 6-10, 2011.
• B. Keren-Zur, L. Mazzucato, Y. Oz, Direct mediation and a visible metastable supersymmetry breaking sector, Particles and nuclei. Proceedings, 18th Int. Conf., PANIC08, Eilat, Israel, November 9-14, 2008 - Nucl.Phys. A827 (2009) pp.1c-694c. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.05.006.