Selected Publications

Rouzitalab, A., Boulay, C.B., Park, J., Martinez-Trujillo, J.C., and Sachs, A.J. Ensembles Code for Associative Learning in the Primate Lateral Prefrontal Cortex. Cell Rep. 5(42), (2023)

Rouzitalab, A., Boulay, C.B., Park, J.C., and Sachs, A.J. Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces in Primates: A Review and Outlook. Biomed. Eng. Lett. (2023).

Rouzitalab, A., Boulay, C.B., and Sachs, A.J. Volitional Control of Beta Activities in Parkinson’s Disease Patients. Brain Res. 148394 (2023).

Corrigan, B., Gulli, R., Doucet, G., Mahmoudian, B., Abbass, M., Roussy, M., Luna, R., Sachs, A.J., Martinez-Trujillo, J.C. View Cells in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex of Macaques During Virtual Navigation. Hippocampus. 5(33), (2023).

Johnston, R., Abbass, M., Corrigan, B., Martinez-Trujillo, J.C. and Sachs, A.J. Decoding Spatial Locations From Primate Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Neural Activity During Virtual Navigation. J Neural Eng. 20 016054 (2023).

Corrigan, B., Gulli, R., Doucet, G., Roussy, M., Luna, R., Pradeepan, K., Sachs, A.J., and Martinez-Trujillo, J.C. Distinct Neural Codes in Primate Hippocampus and Lateral Prefrontal Cortex During Associative Learning in Virtual Environments. Neuron. 13(110), (2022).

Johnston, R., Doucet, G., Boulay, C.B., Miller, K., Martinez-Trujillo, J.C. and Sachs, A.J. Decoding Saccade Intention From Primate Prefrontal Cortical Local Field Potentials Using Spectral, Spatial, and Temporal Dimensionality Reduction. Int J Neural Syst. 31(6), 2150023 (2021).

Roussy, M., Luna, R., Duong, L., Corrigan, B., Gulli, R.A., Nogueira, R., Moreno-Bote, R., Sachs, A.J. Palaniyappan, L. & Martinez-Trujillo, J.C. Ketamine Disrupts Naturalistic Coding of Working Memory in Primate Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Networks. Mol Psychiatr. 26(5) (2021).

Leavitt, M. L., Pieper, F., Sachs, A. J., and Martinez-Trujillo, J. C. A Quadrantic Bias in Prefrontal Representation of Visual-Mnemonic Space. Cereb Cortex. 28(7): 2405–2421 (2018).


Lu, D. C. C., Boulay, C., Chan, A. D. C., and Sachs, A. J. Improve Subthalamic Nucleus Localization During Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery. CMBES Proc. 41(0) (2018).


Lu, D. C.-C., Boulay, C., Chan, A. D. C., and Sachs, A. J. Realtime phase-amplitude coupling analysis of micro electrode recorded brain signals. PLOS ONE. 13(9), e0204260 (2018).

Bullock, K. R., Pieper, F., Sachs, A.J., and Martinez-Trujillo, J. C. Visual and presaccadic activity in area 8Ar of the macaque monkey lateral prefrontal cortex.  J Neurophysiol.  118(1): 15-28 (2017).


Leavitt, M. L., Pieper, F., Sachs, A.J., and Martinez-Trujillo, J. C. Correlated variability modifies working memory fidelity in primate prefrontal neuronal ensembles.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.  114(12): E2494-E2503 (2017).


Boulay, C. B., Pieper, F., Leavitt, M., Martinez-Trujillo, J. & Sachs, A. J. Single-trial decoding of intended eye movement goals from lateral prefrontal cortex neural ensembles. J. Neurophysiol. 115, 486–99 (2016).


Tremblay, S., Pieper, F., Sachs, A. & Martinez-Trujillo, J. Attentional filtering of visual information by neuronal ensembles in the primate lateral prefrontal cortex. Neuron 85, 202–15 (2015).


Tremblay, S., Doucet, G., Pieper, F., Sachs, A. & Martinez-Trujillo, J. Single-Trial Decoding of Visual Attention from Local Field Potentials in the Primate Lateral Prefrontal Cortex Is Frequency-Dependent. J. Neurosci. 35, 9038–49 (2015).


Irwin, Z., Thompson, D., Schroeder, K., Tat, D., Hassani, A., Bullard, A., Woo, S., Urbanchek, M., Sachs, A., Cederna, P., Stacey, W., Patil, P. & Chestek, C. Enabling Low-power, Multi-modal Neural Interfaces through a Common, Low-bandwidth Feature Space. IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng. (2015).


Sachs, A. J., Babu, H., Su, Y.-F., Miller, K. J. & Henderson, J. M. Lack of efficacy of motor cortex stimulation for the treatment of neuropathic pain in 14 patients. Neuromodulation 17, 303–10; discussion 310–1 (2014).


Leavitt, M. L., Pieper, F., Sachs, A., Joober, R. & Martinez-Trujillo, J. C. Structure of spike count correlations reveals functional interactions between neurons in dorsolateral prefrontal cortex area 8a of behaving primates. PLoS One 8, e61503 (2013).


Sachs, A. J.,  Khayat, P. S., Niebergall, R., & Martinez-Trujillo, J. C. (2011). A metric-based analysis of the contribution of spike timing to contrast and motion direction coding by single neurons in macaque area MT. Brain Res.1368, 163-184.