Publications

Barretto-Bittar, J.; Levina, A.; Giannakakis, E.; Zeraati, R.: Diffusion of Neuromodulators for Temporal Credit Assignment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123 (38), e2608831123 (2026)

Zeraati, R.; Levina, A.; Macke, J.; Gao, R.: Neural timescales from a computational perspective. Nature Neuroscience 29 (7), pp. 1534 - 1547 (2026)

Zeraati, R.: Optimal foraging under naturalistic temporal dynamics. Berstein Conference 2026 Satellite Workshop: From lab to wild: how internal states enable adaptive behavior, Frankfurt a.M., Germany (2026)

Nouri, S.; Pillai, H.; Banchalia, P.; Yoshida, N.; Zeraati, R.; Safavi, S.: Emergent Functional Circuits in Embodied Foragers. 9th Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2026), New York, NY, USA (2026)

Sturgill, C.; Movahedian, A.; Dwarakanath, A.; Kapoor, V.; Logothetis, N.; Panagiotaropoulos, T.; Zeraati, R.; Safavi, S.: Foraging minds: computational and neural foundations of perceptual flexibility. 9th Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2026), New York, NY, USA (2026)

Zeraati, R.; Oña Jodar, T.; Safavi, S.; Cruz, B.; Poo, C.; Dayan, P.: Optimal Foraging under Naturalistic Temporal Dynamics. 15th FENS Forum 2026: Advancing Neuroscience Together (FENS2026), Barcelona, Spain (2026)

Zeraati, R.: Optimal Foraging Under Naturalistic Temporal Dynamics. Braitenberg 100: Symposium on Past, Present, and Future of Computational Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany (2026)

Barretto Bittar, J.; Giannakakis, E.; Zeraati, R.; Levina, A.: Diffusion of Neuromodulators for Temporal Credit Assignment in Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2026), Lisbon, Portugal (2026)

Schwabe, M.; Behrad, A.; Zeraati, R.; Safavi, S.: Revealing task-relevant dynamics via decomposition of intrinsic and input-driven dynamics. Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting (COSYNE 2026), Lisbon, Portugal (2026)

Wang, X.-J.; Jiang, J.; Zeraati, R.; Battista, A.; Vezoli, J.; Kennedy, H.; Pereira-Obilinovic, U.: Bifurcation in space: Functional modularity and distributed cognition in the neocortex. (submitted)