Here is our published work of the last 10 years. Please contact Mathew Diamond (diamond@sissa.it) or any lab member to ask for PDFs of the publications.

RESEARCH ARTICLES

2024

Reinartz, S., Fassihi, A., Ravera, M., Paz, L., Pulecchi, F., Gigante, M., and Diamond, M.E. (2024). Direct contribution of the sensory cortex to the judgment of stimulus duration. Nature Communications.

2023

Yousefi Darani, Z., Hachen, I., and Diamond, M.E. (2023). Dynamics of the judgment of tactile stimulus intensity. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering 3, 014014. 10.1088/2634-4386/acc08e.

2021

Toso, A., Reinartz, S., Pulecchi, F., and Diamond, M.E. (2021). Time coding in rat dorsolateral striatum. Neuron 109, 3663-3673.e3666. 10.1016/j.neuron.2021.08.020.

Toso, A., Fassihi, A., Paz, L., Pulecchi, F., and Diamond, M.E. (2021). A sensory integration account for time perception. PLOS Computational Biology 17, e1008668. 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008668.

Rispoli, R., Diamond, M.E., Balsano, M., and Cappelletto, B. (2021). Spine surgery in Italy in the COVID-19 era: proposal for assessing and responding to the regional state of emergency. World Neurosurg 145, e1-e6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2020.08.001.

Nikbakht, N., and Diamond, M.E. (2021). Conserved visual capacity of rats under red light. eLife 10, e66429. 10.7554/eLife.66429.

Hachen, I., Reinartz, S., Brasselet, R., Stroligo, A., and Diamond, M.E. (2021). Dynamics of history-dependent perceptual judgment. Nature Communications 12, 6036. 10.1038/s41467-021-26104-2.

2020

Sampaio-Baptista, C., Vallès, A., Khrapitchev, A.A., Akkermans, G., Winkler, A.M., Foxley, S., Sibson, N.R., Roberts, M., Miller, K., Diamond, M.E., et al. (2020). White matter structure and myelin-related gene expression alterations with experience in adult rats. Progress in Neurobiology 187, 101770. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101770.

Lee, C.C.Y., Kheradpezhouh, E., Diamond, M.E., and Arabzadeh, E. (2020). State-dependent changes in perception and coding in the mouse somatosensory cortex. Cell Reports 32, 108197. 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108197.

2019

Zuo, Y., and Diamond, M.E. (2019). Rats generate vibrissal sensory evidence until boundary crossing triggers a decision. Current Biology 29, 1415-1424.e1415. 10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.016.

Zuo, Y., and Diamond, M.E. (2019). Texture identification by bounded integration of sensory cortical signals. Current Biology 29, 1425-1435.e1425. 10.1016/j.cub.2019.03.017.

Hachen, I., Reinartz, S., Brasselet, R., and Diamond, M. (2019). Dynamic updating of sensory history shapes perceptual judgments. Cosyne.

Esmaeili, V., and Diamond, M.E. (2019). Neuronal Correlates of Tactile Working Memory in Prefrontal and Vibrissal Somatosensory Cortex. Cell Reports 27, 3167-3181.e3165. 10.1016/j.celrep.2019.05.034.

2018

Rigosa, J., Lucantonio, A., Noselli, G., Fassihi, A., Zorzin, E., Manzino, F., Pulecchi, F., and Diamond, M.E. (2018). A Fluorescent Dye Method Suitable for Visualization of One or More Rat Whiskers. Bio-protocol 8, e2749. 10.21769/BioProtoc.2749.

Nikbakht, N., Tafreshiha, A., Zoccolan, D., and Diamond, M.E. (2018). Supralinear and supramodal integration of visual and tactile signals in rats: psychophysics and neuronal mechanisms. Neuron 97, 626-639.e628. 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.01.003.

Akrami, A., Kopec, C.D., Diamond, M.E., and Brody, C.D. (2018). Posterior parietal cortex represents sensory history and mediates its effects on behaviour. Nature 554, 368-372. 10.1038/nature25510

2017

Rigosa, J., Lucantonio, A., Noselli, G., Fassihi, A., Zorzin, E., Manzino, F., Pulecchi, F., and Diamond, M.E. (2017). Dye-enhanced visualization of rat whiskers for behavioral studies. eLife 6, e25290. 10.7554/eLife.25290.

Pica, G., Piasini, E., Fellin, T., Safaai, H., Runyan, C., Harvery, C., Kayser, C., Diamond, M.E., and Panzeri, S. (2017). Quantifying how much sensory information in a neural code is relevant for behavior. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 3687-3697.

Fassihi, A., Akrami, A., Pulecchi, F., Schönfelder, V., and Diamond, M.E. (2017). Transformation of perception from sensory to motor cortex. Current Biology 27, 1585–1596.

2016

Lee, C.C., Diamond, M.E., and Arabzadeh, E. (2016). Sensory prioritization in rats: behavioral performance and neuronal correlates. J Neurosci 36, 3243-3253. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3636-15.2016.

Grion, N., Akrami, A., Zuo, Y., Stella, F., and Diamond, M. (2016). Coherence between rat sensorimotor system and hippocampus is enhanced during tactile discrimination. PLoS Biol 14, e1002384. 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002384.

2015

Zuo, Y., Safaai, H., Notaro, G., Mazzoni, A., Panzeri, S., and Diamond, Mathew E. (2015). Complementary contributions of spike timing and spike rate to perceptual decisions in rat S1 and S2 cortex. Current Biology 25, 357-363. 10.1016/j.cub.2014.11.065.

Lopes dos Santos, V., Panzeri, S., Kayser, C., Diamond, M.E., and Quian Quiroga, R. (2015). Extracting information in spike time patterns with wavelets and information theory. Journal of Neurophysiology 113, 1015-1033. 10.1152/jn.00380.2014.

2014

Panzeri, S., Ince, R.A.A., Diamond, M.E., and Kayser, C. (2014). Reading spike timing without a clock: intrinsic decoding of spike trains. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369, 20120467. 10.1098/rstb.2012.0467.

Maravall, M., and Diamond, M.E. (2014). Algorithms of whisker-mediated touch perception. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 25, 176-186. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2014.01.014.

Fassihi, A., Akrami, A., Esmaeili, V., and Diamond, M.E. (2014). Tactile perception and working memory in rats and humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111, 2331-2336. 10.1073/pnas.1315171111.

REVIEWS, COMMENTARIES, BOOK CHAPTERS

Diamond, M.E., and Toso, A. (2023). Tactile cognition in rodents. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 105161. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105161.

Fassihi, A., Zuo, Y., and Diamond, M.E. (2020). Making sense of sensory evidence in the rat whisker system. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 60, 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2019.11.012.

Diamond, M.E. (2019). Perceptual uncertainty. PLOS Biology 17, e3000430. 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000430.

Diamond, M.E. (2019). Identifying what makes a neuron fire. The Journal of Physiology 597, 2607-2608. 10.1113/jp278049.

Maravall, M., and Diamond, M.E. (2015). Functional Principles of Whisker-Mediated Touch Perception. In Sensorimotor Integration in the Whisker System, A.G. Patrick Krieger, ed. (Springer).