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

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. Featured in This Week in the Journal

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

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., Hammer N., Knowlton C., Schwenk J., Müller T., Schulte D., Fakler B., Canavier C.C., Roeper J. A biophysical regulator of inhibitory integration and learning in mesolimbic dopamine neurons. bioRxiv, 344499

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

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. Featured in the “Top 100 in Neuroscience” special collection for 2021 (in top 25)

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

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

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