M Stephenson-Jones

🎉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! nature.com/articles/s4158…

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 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

“Where was I again?” Our study published today nature.com/articles/s4158… 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 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Super fun - watch in real time as contents are moved from one working memory slot to another :) science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Neuroscience Faculty Job @UniofOxford Our department is searching widely to fill TWO neuroscience professorships (tenured or on track). Deadline : 18th of Nov. Further info: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… 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 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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 nature.com/articles/s4158…

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! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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! researchgate.net/job/1014176_Po…