Caitlin M Goodpaster

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) is critical for learning and decision-making processes, including responding to threats. The protracted maturation of the mPFC extends into early adulthood. Although prominent models suggest...

To make adaptive decisions, we build an internal model of the associative relationships in an environment and use it to make predictions and inferences about specific available outcomes. Detailed, identity-specific...

The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) plays a key role in learning, mood and decision making, including in how individuals respond to threats . mPFC undergoes a uniquely protracted development, with...

Quantitative descriptions of animal behavior are essential to study the neural substrates of cognitive and emotional processes. Analyses of naturalistic behaviors are often performed by hand or with expensive, inflexible...

Adaptive reward-related decision making often requires accurate and detailed representation of potential available rewards. Environmental reward-predictive stimuli can facilitate these representations, allowing one to infer which specific rewards might be...