Diana Burk Neuroscience
Diana Burk
neuroscientist &
biomedical engineer

Publications
Korom, M., Burk, D., Givens, T., Massac, L., Miller, C. M., Lee, Y. D., Meigs, J., Xu, E. P., Bui, H. N. T., Cárdenas, S. I., Perhamus, G. R., Clayton, M., Pine, D. S., Brotman, M. A., Haller, S. P., Averbeck, B. B., Leibenluft, E., & Kircanski, K. Frustration induction alters reward prediction error encoding in pediatric irritability. Under review at Biological Psychiatry:CNNI
Kronemer, S.I., Gobo, V.E., Teves, J.B., Burk, D.C., Shahsavarani, S., Walsh, C.R., Gonzalez-Castillo, J., Bandettini, P.A.. (2025). Cross-species real time detection of trends in pupil size fluctuation. Behavioral Research Methods. 57,9. // pdf
Burk, D. C., Taswell, C., Tang, H., & Averbeck, B. B. (2024). Computational mechanisms underlying motivation to earn symbolic reinforcers. J.Neurosci. 44(24), e1873232024 // pdf
Burk, D. C., & Averbeck, B. B. (2023). Environmental uncertainty and the advantage of impulsive choice strategies. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(1), e1010873. short video description // pdf
Janssen, M., LeWarne, C., Burk, D., & Averbeck, B. B. (2022). Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning, Sequential Behavior, and the Dorsal Frontostriatal System. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 34(8), 1307-1325.
Abend, R.*, Burk, D.*, Ruiz, S. G., Gold, A. L., Napoli, J. L., Britton, J. C., ... & Averbeck, B. B. (2022). Computational modeling of threat learning reveals links with anxiety and neuroanatomy in humans. ELife, 11, e66169. *these authors contributed equally // pdf
Burk, D. C., & Sheinberg, D. L. (2022). Neurons in inferior temporal cortex are sensitive to motion trajectory during degraded object recognition. Cerebral Cortex Communications, 3(3), tgac034. // pdf
Kircanski, K., Burk, D., Xu, E., Meigs, J., Pine, D., Brotman, M., ... & Leibenluft, E. (2021). Reinforcement Learning and Prediction Error in Pediatric Irritability. Neuropsychopharmacology. (Vol. 46, No. Suppl 1, pp. 291-291).
Desrochers, T. M., Burk, D. C., Badre, D., & Sheinberg, D. L. (2016). The monitoring and control of task sequences in human and non-human primates. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 9, 185. // pdf
Burk, D., Ingram, J. N., Franklin, D. W., Shadlen, M. N., & Wolpert, D. M. (2014). Motor effort alters changes of mind in sensorimotor decision making. PloS one, 9(3), e92681. // pdf
Nasir, M., Ateya, D. A., Burk, D., Golden, J. P., & Ligler, F. S. (2010). Hydrodynamic focusing of conducting fluids for conductivity-based biosensors. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 25(6), 1363-1369.