Publications

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NEUROSCIENCE

Articles

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.
Expectation-induced modulation of metastable activity underlies faster coding of sensory stimuli
​​​L. Mazzucato, G. La Camera*, A. Fontanini*. (under revision) 
[biorxiv]
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 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.

​Conference Abstracts

  • 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.
  • ​J. B. Priestley*, M. Ahmed*, A. Castro, F. Stefanini, E. Balough, E. Lavoie, L. Mazzucato, S. Fusi, A. Losonczy, CoSyNe, 2018, Denver (peer reviewed).
  • ​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.

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.