On The Value and Power of Well-Parameterized Tasks in Small Animals
Small animals (e.g. mice) have become an increasingly important model to understand cognitive processing. Here, I explain the history of this research, its accomplishments and future promise.
A Thalamocortical Model for Contextual Inference
In the quest to understand how our brains process and adapt to complex environments, computational models have long served as powerful tools to simulate neural circuits. This has been certainly the case for vision, starting with Hubel and Wiesel receptive field models...
The Two Prefrontal Streams Evidence for Homology Across Species
I have recently had the privilege of writing a book chapter with Bob Vertes and Nicola Palemero-Ghallager on the evolution of the frontal cortex. It was an amazing intellectual journey, where I learned a lot from our interactions. The product was a new hypothesis for...