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Zachary Mainen

American neuroscientist
Person Human Q17386306

Facts

9 properties
Instance of
human
Sex or gender
male[7]
Date of birth
February 20, 1969
Country of citizenship
United States[3]
Occupation
neuroscientist
Employer
Champalimaud Foundation, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Janelia Research Campus, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Stony Brook University, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory[4]
Educated at
Yale University, University of California, San Diego[5]
Doctoral advisor
Terrence J. Sejnowski[6]
Given name
Zachary, Frank[8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Zachary F. Mainen en Zach Mainen
🔖 Identifiers · 13
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7913-9109
Academic Tree ID
77
CIÊNCIAVITAE ID
351E-CBAF-395B
Dimensions author ID
01151166252.53
EMBO member ID
zachary-f-mainen
Freebase ID
/m/0114jq2y
Google Scholar author ID
ivDH8SoAAAAJ
Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
253653
Prabook ID
1732997
SBN author ID
TO0V711862
Scopus author ID
6603150101
Semantic Scholar author ID
47980751, 1855194
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Springer Nature person ID
01151166252.53

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Activation of serotonin neurons promotes active persistence in a probabilistic foraging task, A probabilistic approach to demixing odors, A reservoir of foraging decision variables in the mouse brain, Demixed principal component analysis of neural population data, Inference-Based Decisions in a Hidden State Foraging Task: Differential Contributions of Prefrontal Cortical Areas, Learning optimal decisions with confidence, Lightning Pose: improved animal pose estimation via semi-supervised learning, Bayesian ensembling and cloud-native open-source tools, Stress-sensitive inference of task controllability +3 more
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Activation of serotonin neurons promotes active persistence in a probabilistic foraging task, A probabilistic approach to demixing odors, A reservoir of foraging decision variables in the mouse brain, Demixed principal component analysis of neural population data, Inference-Based Decisions in a Hidden State Foraging Task: Differential Contributions of Prefrontal Cortical Areas, Learning optimal decisions with confidence, Lightning Pose: improved animal pose estimation via semi-supervised learning, Bayesian ensembling and cloud-native open-source tools, Stress-sensitive inference of task controllability +3 more
Affiliated with 1
Champalimaud Foundation
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Summary

Zachary Mainen was born on February 20, 1969[1]. He worked as a neuroscientist[2].

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What did Zachary Mainen do for work?

Zachary Mainen worked as neuroscientist[2].

Where did Zachary Mainen go to school?

Zachary Mainen was educated at Yale University[5].

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  5. [4] ↑ . orcid.org. Retrieved . orcid.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Bargioni · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #58213: add P1810 to P396"
  2. 5w ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SBN author ID → TO0V711862
    "Created claim: SBN author ID: TO0V711862, Matched to Zachary F. Mainen (#326941366) in SBN persons…"
  3. 21w ago · William Avery Bot bot · 2026-06-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Scopus author ID → 6603150101
    Academic Tree ID → 77
    Google Scholar author ID → ivDH8SoAAAAJ
    Instance of → human
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