Jeong, H., Zsembik, L., Farouq, F., Chakraborty, R., Belur, N., Zhou, M., Sanders, A.D., Wang, S.X., Srinivasan, A., Cox, S.M.L., Garr, E., Brooke, S., Janak, P.H., Leyton, M., Chen, R., Namboodiri, V.M.K., Memory erasure by dopamine-gated retrospective learning, BioRxiv, 2026 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.17.700100v2 

Pemberton, L., Jeong, H., Namboodiri, V.M.K., Pre-existing and emergent cortical neuronal assembly sequences during learning, BioRxiv, 2026 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688154v2 

Burke, D.A., Taylor, A., Jeong, H., Lee, S., Zsembik, L., Wu, B., Floeder, J.R., Naik, G.A., Chen, R., Namboodiri, V.M.K., , Duration between rewards controls the rate of behavioral and dopaminergic learning , Nature Neurosci, 2026 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02206-2   

Floeder, J.R., Jeong, H., Mohebi, A., Namboodiri, V.M.K., Mesolimbic dopamine ramps reflect environmental timescales, eLife, 2025, https://elifesciences.org/articles/98666 

Namboodiri, V.M.K., But why? Dopamine and causal learning, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2024, please email Vijay if you would like a copy of this article

Garr, E., Cheng, Y., Jeong, H., Brooke, S., Castell, L., Bal, A., Magnard, R., Namboodiri, V.M.K., Janak, P.H., Mesostriatal dopamine is sensitive to changes in specific cue-reward contingencies, Science Advances, 10, 22, 2024 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adn4203 

Jeong, H., Namboodiri, V.M.K.*, Jung, M.W.*, Andermann, M.L.,*, Sensory cortical ensembles exhibit differential coupling to ripples in distinct hippocampal subregions, Current Biology, 33, 23, 2023, *Co-corresponding author. 

Zhou, M., Wu, B., Jeong, H., Burke, D.A., Namboodiri, V.M.K., An open-source Behavior Controller for Associative Learning and Memory (B-CALM). Behavior Research Methods, 2023 https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02182-6 

You can access a free copy here.

Jeong, H., Taylor, A., Floeder, J.R., Lohmann, M., Mihalas, S., Wu, B., Zhou, M., Burke, D.A., Namboodiri, V.M.K., Mesolimbic dopamine release conveys causal associations, Science, 2022, open access link here 

News coverage in The Economist here

Namboodiri, V.M.K., Stuber, G.D., The learning of prospective and retrospective cognitive maps within neural circuits, Neuron, 2021

Namboodiri, V.M.K., What is the state space of the world for real animals?, BioRxiv, 2021
revised version published in Behavioral Neuroscience titled "How do real animals account for the passage of time during associative learning?" 

Namboodiri, V.M.K., Hobbs, T., Trujillo Pisanty, I., Simon, R.C., Gray, M.M.,Stuber, G.D., Relative salience signaling within a thalamo-orbitofrontal circuit governs learning rate, Current Biology, 2021

Jo, Y.S., Namboodiri, V.M.K., Stuber, G.D., Zweifel, L.S., Persistent activation of central amygdala CRF neurons helps drive the immediate fear extinction deficit, Nature Communications, 11, 422, 2020

Lecca, S., Namboodiri, V.M.K., Restivo, L., Gervasi, N., Pillolla, G., Stuber, G.D., Mameli, M., Heterogeneous habenular neuronal ensembles during selection of defensive behaviors, BiorXiv, 2019 

Namboodiri, V.M.K.*, Otis, J.M.*, van Heeswijk, K., Voets, E.S., Alghorazi, R., Rodriguez-Romaguera, J., Mihalas, S., Stuber, G.D., Single-cell activity tracking reveals that orbitofrontal neurons acquire and maintain a long-term memory to guide behavioral adaptation, Nature Neuroscience, 22, 1110-1121, 2019 *co-first author 

Otis, J.M.*, Namboodiri, V.M.K.*, Matan, A.M., Voets, E.S., Mohorn, E.P., McHenry, J.A., Robinson, J.E., Resendez, S.L., Rossi, M.A., Stuber, G.D., Prefrontal cortex output circuits guide reward seeking through divergent cue encoding, Nature, 543, 103-107 (2017) *co-first author 

Decot, H.*, Namboodiri, V.M.K.*, Gao, W., McHenry, J., Jennings, J.H., Lee, S-H., Kantak, P., Kao, Y-C. J., Das, M., Witten, I., Deisseroth, K., Shih, Y-Y. I., Stuber, G.D., Coordination of brain-wide activity dynamics by dopaminergic neurons, Neuropsychopharmacology, 2016 Sep 14, advanced online publication *co-first author 

Namboodiri, V.M.K.*, Levy, J.M.*, Mihalas, S., Sims, D.W., Hussain Shuler, M.G., Rationalizing spatial exploration patterns of wild animals and humans through a temporal discounting framework, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113 (31) 8747-8752 (2016) *co-first author 

Resendez, S.L., Jennings, J.H., Ung, R.L., Namboodiri, V.M.K., Zhou, C.Z., Otis, J., Nomura, H., McHenry, J.A., Kosyk, O., Stuber, G.D., Visualization of cortical, subcortical and deep brain neural circuit dynamics during naturalistic mammalian behavior with head-mounted microscopes and chronically implanted lenses, Nature Protocols, Vol 11, Issue 3, pp. 566-597, 2016 

Namboodiri, V.M.K., Mihalas, S., Hussain Shuler, M.G., Analytical calculation of errors in time and value perception due to a subjective time accumulator, Neural Computation, Vol 28, Issue 1, pp. 89-117, 2015 

Namboodiri, V.M.K., Huertas, M., Monk, K.J., Shouval, H.Z., Hussain Shuler, M.G., Visually Cued Action Timing in the Primary Visual Cortex, Neuron Vol 8, Issue 61, pp. 319-330, 2015 

Namboodiri, V.M.K., Mihalas, S., Hussain Shuler, M.G., Rationalizing decision-making: understanding the cost and perception of time, Timing and Time Perception Reviews, Vol 1, Issue 4, pp. 1-40, 2015