Kris Jensen
Computational neuroscientist || Postdoc with Tim Behrens || Sainsbury Wellcome Centre @ UCL
- Reposted by Kris JensenJunior scientists 👉 applications are open for our workshop on the mechanistic basis of #cognition. 🧠 🤝 Joint sessions with our #TheoreticalNeuroscience workshop ✈️ Hotel, meals + reasonable travel expenses covered Apply by May 7 ➡️ janelia.news/CNW26 @michaelreiser.bsky.social @jvoigts.bsky.social
- I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb.bsky.social on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- It is increasingly clear from recent work in mice and monkeys that prefrontal cortex solves sequence memory tasks by using different populations of neurons to represent different elements of the sequence. 2/8
- We show that these representations can do much more than that. If you connect the different neural populations the right way, the resulting attractor network can infer the future! This allows the network to solve complex problems like planning using representations that we know exist in PFC. 3/8
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View full threadFinally a big thanks to all of our co-authors Peter Doohan, @mathiassablemeyer.bsky.social, @sandra-neuro.bsky.social, @alonbaram.bsky.social, and Thomas Akam + everyone else who contributed through discussions, ideas, and feedback!
- Great paper by @jonathannicholas.bsky.social and @marcelomattar.bsky.social ! A related discussion we had in our lab recently is whether there exists convincing evidence that mice use episodic memory - refs are welcome if anyone knows relevant work!
- Why do we remember so many details of our experiences even when it is unclear if we will actually ever need them? In a new preprint, @marcelomattar.bsky.social and I asked whether this property is adaptive, because what will be relevant in the future often (usually?!) isn’t apparent.
- Amazing work by Mehran, @sonjahofer.bsky.social, and colleagues, characterizing neural mechanisms underlying explore/exploit behaviours!
- Should you stick to your goal, try something else, or give up? Your median raphe nucleus in the brainstem knows and will decide for you 😉. First foray of my lab into foraging, behavioural strategies and exploration. Amazing work from the one and only Mehran Ahmadlou: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Kris JensenNew paper from the lab! Mathias Sablé-Meyer used behavior, fMRI and MEG to study the mental representation of geometric shapes (quadrilaterals ranging in regularity from squares and rectangles to random figures). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Kris JensenFor my first Bluesky post, I'm very excited to share a thread on our recent work with Mitra Javadzadeh, investigating how connections between cortical areas shape computations in the neocortex! [1/7] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Kris Jensen663 days since the senseless tragedy that took An, we present a manuscript that reports some of the discoveries that she left us. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
