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1- Tafazoli, S., Bouchacourt, F., Ardalan, A., Markov N.T., Uchimura, M., Mattar, M.G., Daw, N.D, Buschman T.J. “Building Compositional Tasks with Shared Neural Subspaces”(2025). Nature, Nov 26, https://10.1038/s41586-025-09805-2

2- Tafazoli, S.*, Ardalan, A.*, Buschman T.J. “Cognitive neuroscience: How the brain navigates abstract task spaces”, Current Biology 35, January 2025 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.004

3- Schottdorf, M., Rich, P.D., Diamanti, E.M., Lin, A., Tafazoli, S., Nieh, E.H., and Thiberge, S.Y. (2025). “TWINKLE: An open-source two-photon microscope for teaching and research”. PLOS ONE 20, e0318924. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318924

4- MacDowell, C.J., Libby, A., Jahn, C.I., Tafazoli, S., Ardalan, A., and Buschman, T.J. (2025). “Multiplexed subspaces route neural activity across brain-wide networks”. Nature Communications 16, 3359. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58698-2

5- Bouchacourt, F.*, Tafazoli, S.*, Mattar, M.G., Buschman, T.J., and Daw, N.D. (2022). “Fast rule switching and slow rule updating in a perceptual categorization task”. eLife 11, e82531. https://elifesciences.org/articles/82531

6- Muratore, P., Tafazoli, S., Piasini, E., Laio, A., and Zoccolan, D. (2022). “Prune and distill: similar reformatting of image information along rat visual cortex and deep neural networks”. NeurIPS 2022. http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13816

7- MacDowell, C.J., Tafazoli, S., and Buschman, T.J. (2022). “A Goldilocks theory of cognitive control: Balancing precision and efficiency with low-dimensional control states”. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 76, 102606. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959438822001003

8- Tafazoli, S.*, MacDowell, C.J.*, Che, Z., Letai, K.C., Steinhardt, C.R., and Buschman, T.J. (2020). “Learning to control the brain through adaptive closed-loop patterned stimulation”. Journal of Neural Engineering 17, 056007. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/abb860

9- Tafazoli, S.*, Safaai, H.*, De Franceschi, G., Rosselli, F.B., Vanzella, W., Riggi, M., Buffolo, F., Panzeri, S., and Zoccolan, D. (2017).” Emergence of transformation-tolerant representations of visual objects in rat lateral extrastriate cortex”. eLife 6, e22794. (Highlighted as featured article of eLife) https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.22794

10- Tafazoli, S.*, Di Filippo, A.*, and Zoccolan, D. (2012). “Transformation-Tolerant Object Recognition in Rats Revealed by Visual Priming”. Journal of Neuroscience 32, 21–34. (Highlighted as featured article of Journal of Neuroscience) https://www.jneurosci.org/content/32/1/21