I am happy to share our paper on place field formation in the hippocampus, led by James Priestley, our amazing graduate student with Stefano Fusi. Also by former and current students in the lab: sseebbii and Jack Bowler. authors.elsevier.com/a/1exmg3BtfH1X…

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How does the hippocampus build up/replay a "clean" map of the world from corrupted experiences? Using 3 levels of modeling, we (joint w/@dhadjia1 Soltesz Lab) propose a simple, synapse-level mechanism: Hebbian plasticity of I→E synapses. Check it out! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I am happy to share our latest work on activity dynamics of cortical input to the hippocampus during virtual reality navigation and reward learning, by the fantastic, indefatigable graduate student, Jack Bowler. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New preprint! Why do learning and memory often involve “consolidation” between different systems in the brain? We develop a general model of systems consolidation and analyze its computational properties, esp. as compared to synaptic consolidation. (1/21) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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Interested in spending a one week training on motor control? Think of joining the first ever FENS Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute Summer School EPFL led by Brian D. McCabe and Carl Petersen: fens.org/news-activitie…

Our mini review with James Priestley and Attila Losonczy is now available online! We discuss the recent progress made towards understanding the organization and operations of CA1 circuits for memory and navigation. authors.elsevier.com/c/1ghdo3Q9h2Ee…

1/ An adaptive social life requires us to discriminate between who is friendly and can be approached & who should be avoided. But what is the neural mechanism underlying this discrimination..? 👇 ..very happy to have my Swiss National Science Foundation project on the role of CA2 for social fear out!

Preprint 🧠! In our recent study, we discovered neurons in the fruit fly brain that respond selectively to the hue of a color, such as violet or green, similar to cortical hue cells found in primates. This represents the first identification of hue selectivity outside of mammals!

We had a great time working with and learning from INSS these past weeks, who just built our fantastic 2-photon microscope! Huge thanks to Bruno Pichler and his team!

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Out today in Neuron 🥳 doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… ⚖️ Is there a computational trade-off between memory and abstraction? 📐 How does the geometry of the neural code control this trade-off? 🧠 What are its implications on social memory and familiarity? Check out the paper and 🧵👇