Tanya Gupta

Biography

Ph.D., Arizona State University
B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University

• Adaptive behavior – how does the brain adjust its computations to change behavior when the environment changes?
• Interval Timing – what is the temporal structure of behavior? How does the brain track the passage of time and coordinate behavior accordingly?
• Decision-making – what are the neural computations that analyze the value of action-outcome associations? How do different regions in the prefrontal cortex interact with each other to control decisions?

• Rodent operant behavior
• Circuit-specific neural manipulations (chemogenetic and optogenetics)
• Calcium-imaging of rodent neural activity
• Behavioral and neural computational modeling

Courses

• PSYC 165: Behavioral Neuroscience
• NEUR 10: Explorations in Neuroscience
• PSYC 51: Statistics and Methods I

Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Gabriel, C. J., Gupta, T. A., Sanchez-Fuentes, A., Zeidler, Z., Wilke, S. A., & DeNardo, L. A. (2025). Transformations in prefrontal ensemble activity underlying rapid threat avoidance learning. Current Biology, 35(5), 1128-1136.

Gupta, T. A., & Sanabria, F. (2023). Motivated to time: Effects of reinforcer devaluation and opportunity cost on interval timing. Learning & Behavior, 51(3), 308-320.

Gupta, T. A., Daniels, C. W., Espinoza, J. I., Smith, B. H., & Sanabria, F. (2022). Assessing complex odor discrimination in mice using a novel instrumental patterning task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48(4), 358.

Gupta, T. A., Daniels, C. W., Ortiz, J. B., Stephens, M., Overby, P., Romero, K., ... & Sanabria, F. (2019). The differential role of the dorsal hippocampus in initiating and terminating timed responses: A lesion study using the switch-timing task. Behavioural Brain Research, 376, 112184.