🎉Thrilled that the lab’s first paper is out today in @Nature! Credit to the amazing @cesca_gst, @HernyMV and @YviJohansson. Thank you to everyone involved in this massive effort!

Stable maps from drifting neurons: CA1 solves the "representational drift paradox" through coordinated population dynamics. New preprint w/@AntjeKilias @bartos_marlene @JF_Sauer showing that representational drift isn’t random https://t.co/ESfIQwAIGt

“Where was I again?” Our study published today https://t.co/SssPQUDv7l reveals brain cells can form a coordinate system for our behaviours. Instead of locating where we are in the world, this coordinate system tells us “where we are” in a sequence of behaviours: 🧵below:

Two new postdoc positions available at UCL's Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, with job adverts to be posted shortly. Feel free to DM if interested...

Shelter experience boosts #dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens, generating a goal-location memory. Reactivating a neuronal ensemble developed from shelter experience enables navigation to the goal during escape. @Hyungbae_Kwon @KanghoonJung https://t.co/b7L2kDpjls

Super fun - watch in real time as contents are moved from one working memory slot to another :)

come and join our team in Spain! we are looking for a researcher with a quantitative background to study the neurocompulational logic underlying visual attention-distractor networks

We are looking for postdocs funded by an ERC starting grant to investigate the mechanisms of cortical predictive learning! Opportunities to use in vivo whole cell recordings, 2-photon imaging VR for mice, and more. Please reach out if you are interested!

Neuroscience Faculty Job @UniofOxford Our department is searching widely to fill TWO neuroscience professorships (tenured or on track). Deadline : 18th of Nov. Further info: https://t.co/l3affUQBYm Apply and join our community. Any question drop me a line.

Cool new evidence of the importance of representations outside of SWRs mPFC neurons that *aren't* modulated by SWRs are more spatially tuned and directionally selective, and mPFC has non-local representations of the upcoming choice independent of SWRs https://t.co/0dGEI11Fto

What is the nature of sensory prediction error signals in the neocortex? Our research published in @Nature reveals that these error signals are amplified responses to unexpected inputs, mediated by a cooperative thalamocortical circuit mechanism! 1/4 https://t.co/fS9ztjB1St

Where in the brain is abstract map generated? It is the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) and the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), working together!! Here is our new finding published in @Nature Prefrontal and lateral entorhinal neurons co-dependently learn item–outcome rules

For fun holiday reading: what is the role of neocortex? The amazing @SaraMederos_ shows that a specific corticofugal pathway is crucial for learning to overwrite instinctive reactions. An epic study going from neural pathway down to synaptic mechanism!

Are we too cortex exclusive? 🧠 We found that perceptual decisions depend on a cortical pathway through thalamus (transthalamic), even though corticocortical projections are intact. Transthalamic pathways thus play a major but underappreciated role in perception. 1/5

We are looking for postdocs! https://t.co/eQmlbtxYxm

This work was a collaboration between scientists at @SWC_Neuro and @GatsbyUCL Thanks for reading! 🙏 13/13

If you are interested in these questions and want to follow up on this work get in touch! We have multiple fully funded PhD and Postdoc positions available to work on this. 12/13

This raises many questions, what is the source of replay if it’s not the hippocampus? How is replay in the different memory systems coordinated? Is striatal replay and dopamine release synchronized? 11/13

This suggests that replay is a common feature for memory consolidation but that the hippocampus is not! 10/13

In fact, not a single feature of the replay changed following the lesion. 9/13