Dr William StaufferUniversity positionResearch Associate DepartmentsDepartment of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience Research ThemesInterestsI am interested in the neuronal computations and value representations underlying economic choice. Dopamine neurons encode reward prediction errors. My current research investigates how this well known teaching signal supports decision making. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Computational modelling Electrophysiological recording techniques Collaborators
Associated News ItemsPublications2014Lak A, Stauffer WR, Schultz W (2014), “Dopamine prediction error responses integrate subjective value from different reward dimensions.” Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Details 2011Stauffer WR, Lau PM, Bi GQ, Cui XT (2011), “Rapid modulation of local neural activity by controlled drug release from polymer-coated recording microelectrodes.” J Neural Eng 8(4):044001 Details 2010Zhang L, Stauffer WR, Jane EP, Sammak PJ, Cui XT (2010), “Enhanced differentiation of embryonic and neural stem cells to neuronal fates on laminin peptides doped polypyrrole.” Macromol Biosci 10(12):1456-64 Details 2008Azemi E, Stauffer WR, Gostock MS, Lagenaur CF, Cui XT (2008), “Surface immobilization of neural adhesion molecule L1 for improving the biocompatibility of chronic neural probes: In vitro characterization.” Acta Biomater 4(5):1208-17 Details 2006Stauffer WR, Cui XT (2006), “Polypyrrole doped with 2 peptide sequences from laminin.” Biomaterials 27(11):2405-13 Details |