• Costa K.M., Shimbo A., Stalnaker T., Raheja N., Mirani J., Sercander C., Schoenbaum G. Striatal dopamine signals errors in prediction across different informational domains. Science Advances, 11, eadq9684, 2025.

• Costa K.M.*,  Zhang Z.*, Zhuo Y., Li G., Li Y., Schoenbaum G. Dopamine and acetylcholine correlations in the nucleus accumbens depend on behavioral task states. Current Biology, 35, 6, 1400-1407, 2025. *Co-first authors

• Zong W., Zhou J., Gardner M.P.H., Zhang Z., Costa K.M., Schoenbaum G. Hippocampal output suppresses orbitofrontal cortex schema cell formation. Nature Neuroscience, 28, 1048–1060, 2025

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• Zhang Z., Costa K.M., Langdon A.J., Schoenbaum G. The devilish details affecting TDRL models in dopamine research. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 29(5), 434-447, 2025

• Lehmann C.M., Miller N.E., Nair V.S., Costa K.M., Schoenbaum G., Moussawi K. Generalized cue reactivity in dopamine neurons after opioids.  Nature Communications, 16, 321, 2025.

• Kovacheva L., Shin J., Zaldivar-Diez J., Mankel J., Farassat N., Costa K.M., Thakur P., Obeso J., Roeper J. Recovery of the full in vivo firing range in post-lesion surviving DA SN neurons associated with Kv4.3-mediated pacemaker plasticity. eLife 14:e104037, 2025.

•  Zhang Z.*, Costa K.M.*, Zhuo Y., Li G., Li Y., Schoenbaum G. Accumbal acetylcholine signals associative salience during learning. bioRxiv, 2025.01.06.631529. *Co-first authors

• Chow J.J., Pitts K.M., Schoenbaum A., Costa K.M., Schoenbaum G., Shaham Y. Different effects of peer-sex on operant responding for social interaction and striatal dopamine activity. The Journal of Neuroscience, e1887232024, 2024. 

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• Cunha, B.M.L., Badarane, E.B.L., Sousa Filho, P.V.M.S., Costa, K.M., da Silva Filho, M. Dysfunctional suction dynamics in newborns with ankyloglossia. CoDAS, 36 (2), 2024

• Costa K.M., Scholz R., Lloyd, K., Moreno-Castilla P., Gardner M.P.H., Dayan P., Schoenbaum G. The role of the lateral orbitofrontal cortex in creating cognitive maps. Nature Neuroscience, 26, 107–115, 2023

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• Wilkinson C.S., Luján M.Á., Hales C., Costa K.M., Fiore V.G., Knackstedt L.A., and Kober H. Listening to the data: computational approaches to addiction and learning. The Journal of Neuroscience, 43 (45) 7547-7553, 2023

• Costa K.M., Schoenbaum G. Dopamine. Current Biology, 32(15), PR817-R824, 2022.

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• Costa K.M. Neuroscience: finding the middle ground of behavioral (in)flexibility. Current Biology, 32(5), R223–R225, 2022

• Costa K.M., Sengupta A., Schoenbaum G. The orbitofrontal cortex is necessary for learning to ignore. Current Biology, 31(12), 2652–2657, 2021

• Costa K.M., Schenkel D., Roeper J. Sex-dependent alterations in behavior, drug responses and dopamine transporter expression in heterozygous DAT-Cre mice. Scientific Reports, 11, 3334, 2021. 

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• Costa K.M., Schoenbaum G. Replication efforts have limited epistemic value. Nature, 599 (7884), 201-201, 2021

• Costa K.M., Schoenbaum G. Neuroscience: what, where and how wonderful? Current Biology, 31(14), 3053-3072, 2021

• Costa K.M., Sengupta A. Short-term scholar visas are essential for science. Neuropsychopharmacology, 46, 277–278, 2021

• Koury G.V.H., Araújo F.C.R.S, Costa K.M., da Silva Filho M. A digital filter-based method for diagnosing speech comprehension deficits. Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes, 5(2), 241-252, 2021

• Farassat N., Costa K.M., Albert S., Kovacheva L., Shin J., Somayaji M., Schneider G., Roeper J. In vivo functional diversity of midbrain dopamine neurons within identified axonal projections. eLife, 8: e48408, 2019

• Schwenk J, Boudkkazi S, Kocylowski M.K., Brechet A, Zolles G, Bus T, Costa K.M., Kollewe A, Jordan J, Bank J, Bildl W, Sprengel R, Kulik A, Roeper J, Schulte U, Fakler B. An ER assembly line of AMPA-Receptors controls excitatory neurotransmission and its plasticity. Neuron, 104(4):680-692.e9, 2019

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• Ribeiro L.B., Rodrigues A.R., Costa K.M., da Silva Filho M. Quantification of textual comprehension difficulty with an information theory-based algorithm. Palgrave Communications (a.k.a. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications), 5 (1), 1-9, 2019

• Iotchev I.B., Costa K.M. Animal cognition: quantity has a quality of its own. Animal Sentience, 23(44), 2019

• Messer M., Costa K.M., Roeper J, Schneider G. Multi-scale detection of rate changes in spike trains with weak dependencies. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, 42(2), 187–201, 2017

• de Macedo M.S.F.C., Costa K.M., da Silva Filho M. Voice disorder in systemic lupus erythematosus. PLoS One, 12(4): e0175893, 2017

• Costa K.M. The effects of aging on substantia nigra dopamine neurons. The Journal of Neuroscience, 34 (46), 15133-15134, 2014

• Costa K.M., Accorsi-Mendonça D., Moraes D.J., Machado B.H. Evolution and physiology of neural oxygen sensing. Frontiers in Physiology, 5:302, 2014

• Moraes D.J.A., Bonagamba L.G.H., Costa K.M., Costa-Silva J.H., Zoccal D.B., Machado B.H. Short-term sustained hypoxia induces changes in the coupling of sympathetic and respiratory activities in rats. The Journal of Physiology, 592: 2013–2033, 2014

• Granjeiro É.M., Marroni S.S., Dias D.P.M., Bonagamba L.G.H., Costa K.M., do Santos J.C., Oliveira J.A.C., Machado B.H., Garcia-Cairasco N. Behavioral and cardiorespiratory responses to bilateral microinjections of oxytocin into the central nucleus of amygdala of Wistar rats, an experimental model of compulsion. PLoS One, 9(7): e99284, 2014

• Lourenço B.M., Costa K.M., da Silva Filho M. Voice disorder in cystic fibrosis patients. PLoS One, 9(5): e96769, 2014

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• Costa K.M., Moraes D.J.A., Machado B.H. Acute inhibition of glial cells in the NTS does not affect respiratory and sympathetic activities in rats exposed to chronic intermittent hypoxia. Brain Research, 1496, 36-48, 2013

• Tejada J.*, Costa K.M.*, Bertti P.*, Garcia-Cairasco N. The epilepsies: complex challenges needing complex solutions. Epilepsy & Behavior. 26(3), 212-228, 2013. *Co-first authors

• da Silva Filho M., Santos D.V., Costa K.M. A new low cost wide-field illumination method for photooxidation of intracellular fluorescent markers. PLoS One, 8(2): e56512, 2013

• Santos D.V., Costa K.M., Vaz M.C.G., da Silva Filho M. Relations between dendritic morphology, spatial distribution and firing patterns in Layer I neurons. Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 45(12), 1221-1233, 2012.

• Costa J.C., Costa K.M., Nascimento J. L. M. Scopolamine- and diazepam-induced amnesia are blocked by systemic and intraseptal administration of substance P and choline chloride. Peptides, 31(9), 1756-1760, 2010

• Machado B.H., Moraes D.J.A., Costa K.M. Highlights in basic autonomic neurosciences: Glia and neuromodulation. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic & Clinical, 156(1-2), 1-4, 2010

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