Selected Publications

  • Ma L, Katyare N, Johnston K, Everling S (2024) Effects of ketamine on frontoparietal interactions in a rule-based antisaccade task in macaque monkeys. J Neurosci Available at: https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2024/10/28/JNEUROSCI.1018-23.2024

  • Ma L, Selvanayagam J, Ghahremani M, Hayrynen LK, Johnston K, Everling S. (2020). Single unit activity in marmoset posterior parietal cortex in a gap saccade task. J Neurophysiol, 123(3): 896-911. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00614.2019

  • Ma L, Chan JL, Johnston K, Lomber SG, Everling S. (2019). Macaque anterior cingulate cortex deactivation impairs performance and alters lateral prefrontal oscillatory activities in a rule-switching task. PLoS Biol 17(7): e3000045. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000045

  • Ghahremani M, Johnston K, Ma L, Schaeffer L, Everling S. (2019). Electrical microstimulation evokes saccades in posterior parietal cortex of common marmosets. Journal of Neurophysiology. https://doi.org/10.1152/jn.00417.2019

  • Johnston K, Ma L, Schaeffer L, Everling S. (2019). Alpha-oscillations modulate preparatory activity in the marmoset frontal eye fields. Journal of Neuroscience. 39(10): 1855-66. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2703-18.2019

  • Ma L, Skoblenick K, Johnston K, Everling S. (2018). Ketamine alters lateral prefrontal oscillations in a rule-based working memory task. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(31): 8258-72. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2659-17.2018

  • Ma L, Hyman JM, Durstewitz D, Phillips AG, Seamans JK. (2016). A Quantitative Analysis of Context-Dependent Remapping of Medial Frontal Cortex Neurons and Ensembles. Journal of Neuroscience. 36(31): 8258-72. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3176-15.2016

  • Ma L, Skoblenick K, Seamans JK, Everling S. (2015). Ketamine-induced changes in the signal and noise of rule representation in working memory by lateral prefrontal neurons. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(33): 11612-11622. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1839-15.2015

  • Ma L, Hyman JM, Lindsay AJ, Phillips AG, Seamans JK. (2014). Differences in the emergent coding properties of cortical and striatal ensembles. Nature Neuroscience. 17(8): 1100-1106. https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.3753

  • Ma L, Hyman JM, Phillips AG, Seamans JK. (2014). Tracking progress toward a goal in corticostriatal ensembles. Journal of Neuroscience. 34(6): 2244-2253. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3834-13.2014

  • Hyman JM, Ma L, Balaguer-Ballester E, Durstewitz D, Seamans JK. (2012). Contextual encoding by ensembles of medial prefrontal cortex neurons. PNAS. 109(13): 5086-5091. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1114415109

  • Dalton GL, Ma L, Phillips AG, Floresco SB. (2011). Blockade of NMDA GluN2B receptors selectively impairs behavioral flexibility but not initial discrimination learning. Psychopharmacology. 216(4): 525-535. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00213-011-2246-z