Publicaciones

  • Oliva, C. A., Rivera, D. S., Torres, A. K., Lindsay, C. B., Tapia-Rojas, C., Bozinovic, F., & Inestrosa, N. C. (2023). Age-dependent behavioral and synaptic dysfunction impairment are improved with long-term Andrographolide administration in long-lived female degus (Octodon degus). International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24021105

  • Plaza-Rosales I, Brunetti EP, Montefusco-Siegmund, R, Madariaga S, Häfelin R, Ponce De La Vega D ,Behrens MI, Maldonado PE, Paula-Lima AC. (2023) Visual-spatial processing impairment in the occipital-frontal connectivity network. Front. Aging Neurosci. DOI:10.3389/fnagi.2023.1097577

  • Maldonado PE, Paula-Lima AC. (2023) Visual-spatial processing impairment in the occipital-frontal connectivity network. Front. Aging Neurosci. doi:10.3389/fnagi.2023.1097577

  • Castillo-Astorga, R., Del Valle-Batalla, L., Mariman, J. J., Plaza-Rosales, I., de Los Angeles Juricic, M., Maldonado, P. E., Vogel, M., & Fuentes-Flores, R. (2023). Combined therapy of bilateral transcranial direct current stimulation and ocular occlusion improves visual function in adults with amblyopia, a randomized pilot study. Frontiers in human neuroscience,17, 1056432. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1056432

  • Madariaga S, Babul C, Egana JI, South G, Concha-Miranda M, Maldonado PE, Devia C. (2023) SaFiDe: Detection of saccade and fixation periods based on eye-movement attributes from video-oculography, scleral coil or electrooculography data. MethodsX, 102041, ISSN 2215-0161, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2023.102041 

  1. Loyola-Navarro, R., Moënne-Loccoz, C., Vergara, R. C., Hyafil , A. , Aboitiz , F. , & Maldonado, PE. (2022). Voluntary self-initiation of the stimuli onset improves working memory and accelerates visual and attentional processing. Heliyon, 8(12), e12215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12215

  2. Vicencio-Jimenez, S., Villalobos, M.,Maldonado, P.E.., & Vergara, R. C. (2022). The Energy Homeostasis Principle: A Naturalistic Approach to Explain the Emergence of Behavior. Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 15, 782781. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2021.782781

  3. Aertsen A, Grun S, Maldonado PE, Palm G (Editors) , 2022 Introducing Computation to Neuroscience. Springer (Germany)

  4. Maldonado PE (2022) Plasticity in the Receptive Fields by Microstimulation. In Introducing Computation to Neuroscience. Aertsen, Grün, Maldonado, Palm Editors, Springer (Germany)

  5. Low F, Maldonado P., Pezoa R, Szoloch N, Varas M. (2022) Article Title: The impact of flashing on the efficacy of variable message signs: A vehicle-by-vehicle approach. Sustainability. 14. Issue 15. DOI 10.3390/su14159705

  6. Montefusco-Siegmund R, Schwalm M, Rosales E, Devi C, Win JI, Maldonado PE. (2022) Alpha EEG Activity and Pupil Diameter Coupling During Inactive Wakefulness in Humans. Eneuro 1 April, ENEURO.0060-21.2022; DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0060-21.2022

  7. Ito J, Joana C, Yamane Y, Fujita I, Tamura H, Maldonado PE, Grün S. (2022) Latency shortening with enhanced sparseness and responsiveness in V1 during active visual sensing. Sci Rep 12, 6021 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09405-4

  8. García-Pérez MA, Irani M, Tiznado V, Bustamante T, Inostroza M, Maldonado PE and Valdés JL (2022) Cortico-Hippocampal Oscillations Are Associated With the Developmental Onset of Hippocampal-Dependent Memory. Front. Neurosci. 16:891523. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.891523

  • Jaras I, Harada T, Orchard ME, Maldonado PE, & Vergara R C. (2021). Extending the integrate-and-fire model to account for metabolic dependencies. The European journal of neuroscience, 54(4), 5249–5260. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15326

  • Maldonado P.. (2021) The neuroscience of pandemic behaviors. Annals of the Institute of Chile. Vol 40, pp 235

  • Aguilar-Rivera M, Kim S, Coleman TP, Maldonado PE, Torrealba F. (2020) Interoceptive insular cortex participates in sensory processing of gastrointestinal malaise and associated behaviors. Sci Rep. 10:21642. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-78200-w. PMID: 33303809; PMCID: PMC7730439. 

  • David Sáez M, Nadia Valdés R, Cristian Fernández M, Rocío Pacheco E (2020) Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, more than an encephalopathy, J HIV Clin Sci Res 9(1): 001-004. DOI: 10.17352/2455-3786.000032

  • Vergara RC, Moënne-Loccoz C, Ávalos C, Egaña J,Maldonado PE.(2019) Finger Temperature: A Psychophysiological Assessment of the Attentional State.Front Hum Neurosci. Mar 13;13:66. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00066. ECollection 2019.
  • Concha-Miranda M, Ríos J, Bou J, Valdes JL,Maldonado PE. (2019) Timing Is of the Essence: Improvement in Perception During Active Sensing. Front Behav Neurosci. 2019 May 9;13:96. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00096. ECollection 2019. PMID: 31143104
  • Devia C, Mayol-Troncoso R, Parrini J, Orellana G,Maldonado PE, Egana JI. (2019) EEG Classification during Scene Free-Viewing for Schizophrenia Detection. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2019 Apr 29. doi: 10.1109/TNSRE.2019.2913799. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 31034418
  • Vergara RC, Jaramillo-Riveri S, Luarte A, Moënne-Loccoz C, Fuentes R, Couve A,Maldonado PE. (2019) The Energy Homeostasis Principle: Neuronal Energy Regulation Drives Local Network Dynamics Generating Behavior. Front Comput Neurosci. 13:49. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2019.00049. ECollection 2019.
  • Maldonado PE. (2019) ¿Por qué tenemos el cerebro en la cabeza? Editorial Debate. ISBN: 978-956-6042-07-5
  • Ibañez C, Vicencio C, Quintanilla ME,Maldonado PE. (2019) Interoception and alcohol addiction: Vagotomy induces long-lasting suppression of relapse-type behavior. Addict Biol. 2019 Dec 17:e12836. doi: 10.1111/adb.12836. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Astudillo C, Muñoz K, Maldonado PE. (2018) Emotional Content Modulates Attentional Visual Orientation During Free Viewing of Natural Images. Front Hum Neurosci. 2018 Nov 15;12:459. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00459. eCollection 2018.
  • Burgos PI, Mariman JJ, Makeig S, Rivera-Lillo G, Maldonado PE. (2018) Visuomotor coordination and cortical connectivity of modular motor learning. Hum Brain Mapp. 39:3836-3853. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24215
  • Fajnzylber V, González L, Maldonado P, Del Villar R, Yañez, R, Madariaga, S, Magdics, M. (2018) Augmented film narrative by use of non-photorealistic rendering. 2017 International Conference on 3D Immersion (IC3D), Brussels, 2017, pp. 1-8. DOI: 10.1109/IC3D.2017.8251912
  • Gajardo AIJ, Madariaga S, Maldonado PE. (2018) Autonomic nervous system assessment by pupillary response as a potential biomarker for cardiovascular risk: A pilot study. J Clin Neurosci. 2018 Nov 15. pii: S0967-5868(18)31221-9. DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2018.11.015.
  • Galindo J, Contreras M, Maldonado P, Torrealba F, Lagos N, Valdés JL. (2018) Long-lasting, reversible and non-neurotoxic inactivation of hippocampus activity induced by neosaxitoxin. J Neurosci Methods. 308:197-204. DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2018.08.013.
  • Mariman JJ, Burgos P, Maldonado PE. (2018) Parallel learning processes of a visuomotor adaptation task in a changing environment. Eur J Neurosci. DOI: 10.1111/ejn.14258. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Montefusco-Siegmund R, Toro M, Maldonado PE, Aylwin ML. (2018) Unsupervised visual discrimination learning of complex stimuli: Accuracy, bias and generalization.Vision Res. Jul;148:37-48. DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2018.05.002.
  • Rivera-Lillo G, Rojas D, Burgos P, Egaña JI, Chennu S, Maldonado PE. (2018) Reduced delta-band modulation underlies the loss of P300 responses in disorders of consciousness. Clin Neurophysiol. 2018 Nov 9;129(12):2613-2622. DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2018.09.104.

  • Rojas-Líbano D, Wimmer Del Solar J, Aguilar-Rivera M, Montefusco-Siegmund R, Maldonado PE. (2018) Local cortical activity of distant brain areas can phase-lock to the olfactory bulb’s respiratory rhythm in the freely behaving rat. J Neurophysiol. 120:960-972. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00088.2018.

  • Varas-Díaz G, Brunetti EP, Rivera-Lillo G, Maldonado PE (2017). Patients with Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Exhibit Reduced Autonomic Modulation during an Emotion Recognition Task. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 11:59. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00059.
  • Vasquez-Rosati A, Brunetti EP, Cordero C, Maldonado P (2017). Pupillary response to negative emotional stimuli is differentially affected in meditation practitioners. Front Hum Neurosci. 2017 May 3;11:209. DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00209.
  • Vergara R, Moënne-Loccoz C, Maldonado PE.(2017) Cold-Blooded Attention: Temperature Predicts Attentional Performance. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00454.
  • Villalobos C, Maldonado PE, Valdés JL (2017). Asynchronous ripple oscillations between left and right hippocampi during slow-wave sleep. PLoS One. 3;12(2):e0171304. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0171304.

  • Mochizuki Y, Onaga T, Shimazaki H, Shimokawa T, Tsubo Y, Kimura R, Saiki A, Sakai Y, Isomura Y, Fujisawa S, Shibata K, Hirai D, Furuta T, Kaneko T, Takahashi S, Nakazono T, Ishino S, Sakurai Y, Kitsukawa T, Lee JW, Lee H, Jung MW, Babul C, Maldonado PE, Takahashi K, Arce-McShane FI, Ross CF, Sessle BJ, Hatsopoulos NG, Brochier T, Riehle A, Chorley P, Grün S, Nishijo H, Ichihara-Takeda S, Funahashi S, Shima K, Mushiake H, Yamane Y, Tamura H, Fujita I, Inaba N, Kawano K,S, Fukushima K, Kurata K, Taira M, Tsutsui K, Ogawa T, Komatsu H, Koida K, Toyama K, Richmond BJ, Shinomoto S (2016). Similarity in Neuronal Firing Regimes across Mammalian Species. J Neurosci. 36(21):5736-47. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0230-16.2016.

  • Loyola P, Martinez G, Muñoz K, Velasquez J, Maldonado P, Couve A (2015). Combining Eye Tracking and Pupillary Dilation Analysis to Identify Website Key Objects. Neurocomputing 168: 179–189
  • Loyola P, Brunetti E, Martinez G, Velasquez J, Maldonado P (2014). Leveraging Neurodata to Support Web User Behavior Analysis, in Wisdom Web of Things (W2T), Springer
  • Brunetti E, Maldonado PE, Aboitiz F.(2013) Phase synchronization of delta and theta oscillations increase during the detection of relevant lexical information. Front Psycho, 4:1-13. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00308.
  • Egaña JI, Devia C, Mayol R, Parrini J, Orellana G, Ruiz A, Maldonado PE (2013). Small saccades and image complexity during free viewing of natural images in schizophrenia. Front Psychiatry, 4:37. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2013.00037
  • Ito J, Maldonado P, Grün S (2013). Cross-frequency interaction of the eye-movement related LFP signals in V1 of freely viewing monkeys. Front Syst Neurosci, 7:1. DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2013.00001
  • Montefusco-Siegmund R, Maldonado P (2013). Effects of Ocular Artifact Removal through ICA Decomposition on EEG Phase. Neural Engineering (NER), 2011 6th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering. San Diego, California.
  • Berger D, Pazienti A, Flores FJ, Nawrot MP, Maldonado PE, Grün S (2012). Viewing strategy of Cebus monkeys during free exploration of natural images. Brain Res, 24:34-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2011.10.013
  • Manzur H, Alvarez J, Babul C, Maldonado PE (2012). Synchronization across sensory cortical areas by electrical microstimulation is sufficient for behavioral discrimination. Cereb Cortex, 23 (12): 2976-2986. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs288

  • Ito J, Maldonado PE, Singer W, Grün S (2011). Saccade-related modulations of neuronal excitability support synchrony of visually elicited spikes. Cereb Cortex, 21:2482-97. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhr020
  • Delano PH, Elgueda D, Ramirez F, Robles L, Maldonado PE (2010). A visual cue modulates the firing rate and latency of auditory-cortex neurons in the chinchilla. Journal of Physiology-Paris, 104:190-6. DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2009.11.023
  • Ito H, Maldonado PE, Gray CM (2010). Dynamics of stimulus-evokedcorrelations in the cat lateral geniculate nucleus. J Neurophysiol, 104:3276-92. DOI: 10.1152/jn.01000.2009
  • Ossandon JP, Helo A, Montefusco R, Maldonado PE (2010). Superposition model predicts EEG occipital activity during free viewing of natural scenes. J Neurosci, 30:4787-95. DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5769-09.2010
  • Friedman-Hill SR, Maldonado PE, Gray CM (2000). Temporal dynamics of neuronal activity in the striate cortex of alert macaque: I. Incidence and stimulus-dependence of oscillations. Cerebral Cortex, 10:1105-1116. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/10.11.1105
  • Maldonado PE, Friedman-Hill SR, Gray CM (2000). Temporal dynamics of neuronal activity in the striate cortex of alert macaque: II. Short and long-range temporally-correlated activity. Cerebral Cortex, 10:1117-1131. DOI: 10.1093/cercor/10.11.1117
  • Maldonado PE, Vivaldi E (2001). Computadores en investigación biomédica: II. Control experimental, adquisición y almacenaje de datos. Revista Médica de Chile, 129:1085-1092. DOI: 10.4067/S0034-98872001000900017
  • Vivaldi E, Maldonado PE (2001). Computadores en investigación biomédica: I. Análisis de señales bioeléctricas. Revista Médica de Chile 129:955-962. DOI: 10.4067/S0034-98872001000800016
  • Goldman M, Maldonado PE, Abbott LF (2002). Redundancy reduction and sustained firing with stochastic depressing synapses. J Neuroscience, 22:584–591. PMID: 11784806
  • Maldonado P (2004). “El cerebro humano, desafío para el nuevo milenio”. EnNuevos paradigmas a comienzos del tercer milenio, ed. Álvaro Fischer. Editorial El Mercurio/Aguilar.
  • Aylwin ML, Diaz E, Maldonado PE (2005). Simultaneous single unit recording in the mitral cell layer of the rat olfactory bulb under nasal and tracheal breathing. Biol Res, 38(1):13-26. DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602005000100003
  • Aylwin ML, Maldonado PE (2005). Una perspectiva sobre la Neurociencia en la investigación médica. En Huella y Presencia, ed. Amanda Fuller. Universidad de Chile Ediciones.
  • Egaña JI, Aylwin ML, Maldonado PE (2005). Odor response properties of adjacent mitral/tufted cells in the rat olfactory bulb. Neuroscience, 134(3):1069-. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2005.04.027
  • Valdés JL, Maldonado P, Recabarren M, Fuentes R, Torrealba F (2006). The infralimbic cortical area commands the behavioral and vegetative arousal during appetitive behavior in the rat. The European Journal of Neuroscience, 5, 23:1352-64. DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2006.04659.x
  • Maldonado PE, Babul CM. (2007) Neuronal activity in the primary visual cortex of the cat freely viewing natural images. Neuroscience, 4, 144:1536-43. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.11.021
  • Maldonado PE, Ossandon JP (2007). Time is of the essence: New approaches in neurophysiological research. En Nuevos enfoques de la cognición: la dinámica de la acción, la intención y la intersubjetividad; ed. Agustín Ibáñez y Diego Cosmelli. Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, pp 53-70.
  • Delano PE, Robles L, Maldonado PE (2008). Stimulus-dependent oscillations and evoked potentials in chinchilla auditory cortex. J Comp Physiol, 194(8):693-700. DOI: 10.1007/s00359-008-0340-4
  • Donoso AM,V, Falcón F, Esparza P, Maldonado PE (2008). Olfactory or auditory stimulation and their hedonic values differentially modulate visual working memory. Biological Research, 41: 379-387. DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602008000400003
  • Fuentes R, Aguilar M, Aylwin ML, Maldonado PE (2008). Neuronal activity of mitral-tufted cells in awake rats during passive and active odorant stimulation. J Neurophysiol, 100:422-430. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00095.2008
  • Maldonado PE (2008). Anatomía de la percepción visual. En Tratado de Neurología Cognitiva y Neuropsicología, ed. Andrea Slachevsky, Facundo Manes, Edith Labos, y Patricio Fuentes. Editorial, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • Maldonado, PE (2008). What we see is how we are: new paradigms in visual research. Biol Research, 40(1):439-450. DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602007000500006
  • Maldonado PE, Babul C, Singer W, Rodriguez E, Berger D, Grün S (2008). Synchronization of neuronal responses in primary visual cortex of monkeys viewing natural images. J Neurophysiol, 100:1523-32. DOI: 10.1152/jn.00076.2008
  • Maldonado PE, Ossandon JP, Flores FJ (2008). Attention and neurodynamical correlates of natural vision. En From to goal-directed behavior: Neurodynamical and methodological and clinical trends, ed. D. Cosmelli y F. Aboitiz., Berlín, pp. 67-82.
  • Pazienti A, Maldonado P, Diesmann M, Grün S (2008). The effectiveness of systematic spike dithering depends on the precision of cortical synchronization. Brain Res, 1225:39-46. DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2008.04.073
  • Aylwin ML, Aguilar GA, Flores FJ, Maldonado PE (2009). Odorant modulation of neuronal activity and local field potential in olfactory bulb. Neuroscience, 162:1265-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.05.051
  • Gray CM, Maldonado PE, Wilson M, McNaughton B (1995). Tetrodes markedly improve the reliability and yield of multiple single-unit isolation from multi-unit recordings in cat striate cortex. J Neurosci Methods, 63:43-54. DOI: 10.1016/0165-0270(95)00085-2
  • Maldonado PE, Altman J, Gerstein GL (1996). Neuronal afterdischarges in the rat auditory cortex and cortical electrical microstimulation. Sechenov Physiological Journal, 82:3-17. DOI:
  • Maldonado PE, Gerstein GL (1996). Neuronal assembly dynamics in the rat auditory cortex during reorganization induced by intracortical microstimulation. Experimental Brain Research, 112:431-441. DOI: 10.1007/BF00227949
  • Maldonado PE, Gerstein GL (1996). Reorganization in the auditory cortex of the rat induced by intracortical microstimulation: a multiple single-unit study. Experimental Brain Research, 112:420-430. DOI: 10.1007/BF00227948
  • Maldonado PE, Gray CM (1996). Heterogeneity in local distribution of orientation-selective neurons in the cat primary visual cortex. Visual Neuroscience 13: 509-516. DOI: 10.1017/S095252380000818X
  • Maldonado PE, Gödecke I, Gray CM, Bonhoeffer T (1997). Orientation selectivity in pinwheel centers in cat striate cortex. Science, 276:1551-1555. DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5318.1551
  • Maldonado PE, Altman JA, Gerstein GL (1998). Neuron discharges in the rat auditory cortex during electrical intracortical stimulation. Neurosci Behav Physiol, 28(1): 48-59. DOI: 10.1007/BF02461912
  • Maldonado P (1999). Neuronas de la corteza visual: Orientación selectiva. En Investigación y Ciencia(Spanish edition of Scientific American), p. 37.
  • Maldonado PE, Maturana H, Varela F (1988). Frontal and lateral visual systems in birds. Brain, Behavior and Evolution, 32:57-62. DOI: 10.1159/000116532
  • Maldonado PE, Rose B, Loewenstein WR (1988). Growth factors modulate junctional communication. J Membrane Biology, 106:203-210. DOI: 10.1007/BF01872158