Vinny Costa
@vincentcostaphd.bsky.social
Neuroscientist (PhD) exploring how the primate 🧠 learns and decides, while exploiting the consumption of 🍕 and 🥯
Lab website: www.fullcolorbrain.com
SYR/UFL/NIMH/ONPRC/EMORY
Lab website: www.fullcolorbrain.com
SYR/UFL/NIMH/ONPRC/EMORY
Perfect way to end #sfn25. Thanks @neuroamyo.bsky.social!
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Perfect way to end #sfn25. Thanks @neuroamyo.bsky.social!
@urochestersmd.bsky.social graduate student Daulton Meyers isn’t a modulator.
Daulton Meyers is a DRIVER.
Does anyone else in this ACC minisymposium hearing Whitesnake? #sfn25 #sfn2025
Daulton Meyers is a DRIVER.
Does anyone else in this ACC minisymposium hearing Whitesnake? #sfn25 #sfn2025
November 16, 2025 at 10:17 PM
@urochestersmd.bsky.social graduate student Daulton Meyers isn’t a modulator.
Daulton Meyers is a DRIVER.
Does anyone else in this ACC minisymposium hearing Whitesnake? #sfn25 #sfn2025
Daulton Meyers is a DRIVER.
Does anyone else in this ACC minisymposium hearing Whitesnake? #sfn25 #sfn2025
“No neuroscience talk is complete until someone says manifold.”
If a scientific lecture can spark joy, this hit the mark. A tour de force!
If a scientific lecture can spark joy, this hit the mark. A tour de force!
November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“No neuroscience talk is complete until someone says manifold.”
If a scientific lecture can spark joy, this hit the mark. A tour de force!
If a scientific lecture can spark joy, this hit the mark. A tour de force!
BCIs for emotion! And a reminder that NHP neuroscience is the safest bet in the business. Scooping is very rare.
November 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
BCIs for emotion! And a reminder that NHP neuroscience is the safest bet in the business. Scooping is very rare.
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Other instance is our recent preprint where Kati Rothenhoefer found slightly higher learning rates when monkeys learned associations with gaining and losing tokens they exchanged for rewards. But they are leaning in a mixed valence environment & task is more complicated than 2-arm bandit task.
October 19, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Other instance is our recent preprint where Kati Rothenhoefer found slightly higher learning rates when monkeys learned associations with gaining and losing tokens they exchanged for rewards. But they are leaning in a mixed valence environment & task is more complicated than 2-arm bandit task.
I would generally agree. Need to read @prakhargodara.bsky.social’s paper, but only time I have ever seen bias go away is when we lesioned amygdala AND tested animals on a deterministic Bayesian reversal learning task. But once stochasticity kicked in…bias returned. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27720488/
October 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I would generally agree. Need to read @prakhargodara.bsky.social’s paper, but only time I have ever seen bias go away is when we lesioned amygdala AND tested animals on a deterministic Bayesian reversal learning task. But once stochasticity kicked in…bias returned. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27720488/
All faculty seminar visits should conclude with a balloon fiesta. Thanks for the invite @jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social!
October 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
All faculty seminar visits should conclude with a balloon fiesta. Thanks for the invite @jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social!
Waiting for Godot featuring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winters was outstanding. Highly recommend and try to get orchestra seats with a direct view of the stage for the full effect of the set and lighting.
September 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Waiting for Godot featuring Keanu Reeves and Alex Winters was outstanding. Highly recommend and try to get orchestra seats with a direct view of the stage for the full effect of the set and lighting.
Another #GRCAmygdala in the books! Kudos to @katewassum.bsky.social for chairing an inspiring meeting.
When I passed by Sagrada Familia yesterday evening it looked like @joserodroma.bsky.social & @anna-beyeler.bsky.social were already hard at work planning the next one.
When I passed by Sagrada Familia yesterday evening it looked like @joserodroma.bsky.social & @anna-beyeler.bsky.social were already hard at work planning the next one.
July 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Another #GRCAmygdala in the books! Kudos to @katewassum.bsky.social for chairing an inspiring meeting.
When I passed by Sagrada Familia yesterday evening it looked like @joserodroma.bsky.social & @anna-beyeler.bsky.social were already hard at work planning the next one.
When I passed by Sagrada Familia yesterday evening it looked like @joserodroma.bsky.social & @anna-beyeler.bsky.social were already hard at work planning the next one.
This is a great paper from Leah Somerville’s lab showing that exploration peaks in adolescence.
@jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social is also working on this in the context of addiction risk in adolescence
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
@jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social is also working on this in the context of addiction risk in adolescence
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
June 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
This is a great paper from Leah Somerville’s lab showing that exploration peaks in adolescence.
@jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social is also working on this in the context of addiction risk in adolescence
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
@jeremyhogeveen.bsky.social is also working on this in the context of addiction risk in adolescence
www.apa.org/pubs/journal...
Some good news for the lab
June 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Some good news for the lab
“My boy is wicked smart. [He’s got heaps of layer 6 projection neurons]” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
June 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
“My boy is wicked smart. [He’s got heaps of layer 6 projection neurons]” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I don’t know why this figure stuck in my memory but as a recovering emotion researcher turned systems neuroscientist there are as many theories of emotion as there are researchers. TCE is in my mind the latest and most comprehensive attempt to blend many sub-disciplines of evidence.
May 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I don’t know why this figure stuck in my memory but as a recovering emotion researcher turned systems neuroscientist there are as many theories of emotion as there are researchers. TCE is in my mind the latest and most comprehensive attempt to blend many sub-disciplines of evidence.
I only drink salted strawberry Negronis now. @docbecca.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I only drink salted strawberry Negronis now. @docbecca.bsky.social
We found encoding of the previous trial outcome (reward or not) persisted through the ITI and into next choice trial in amygdala and striatum:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31196672/
Saw the same thing in OFC:
www.jneurosci.org/content/40/1...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31196672/
Saw the same thing in OFC:
www.jneurosci.org/content/40/1...
April 6, 2025 at 1:28 AM
We found encoding of the previous trial outcome (reward or not) persisted through the ITI and into next choice trial in amygdala and striatum:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31196672/
Saw the same thing in OFC:
www.jneurosci.org/content/40/1...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31196672/
Saw the same thing in OFC:
www.jneurosci.org/content/40/1...
I must be honest here, I love my @discoverecho.bsky.social Revolve with apochromat objectives and a Z-stack module.
It is so choice. If you have the means I highly recommend picking one up.
It is so choice. If you have the means I highly recommend picking one up.
April 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I must be honest here, I love my @discoverecho.bsky.social Revolve with apochromat objectives and a Z-stack module.
It is so choice. If you have the means I highly recommend picking one up.
It is so choice. If you have the means I highly recommend picking one up.
For #fluorescentfriday check out these #AAC neurons in Area 32 filled with DIO-HM4Di DREADDs.
March 21, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For #fluorescentfriday check out these #AAC neurons in Area 32 filled with DIO-HM4Di DREADDs.
Posting this image of neurons transfected to secrete proteins that @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social bioengineered to enable noninvasive monitoring of neuronal integrity in NHPs for #fluorescentfriday.
This technology will eventually lead to improved treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.
This technology will eventually lead to improved treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.
March 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Posting this image of neurons transfected to secrete proteins that @jerzyszablowski.bsky.social bioengineered to enable noninvasive monitoring of neuronal integrity in NHPs for #fluorescentfriday.
This technology will eventually lead to improved treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.
This technology will eventually lead to improved treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.