New perspective paper from our lab: “The hippocampus as a generative model” out now !! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article... The traditional view of the hippocampus is that it creates a cognitive map. Here we extend this view to conceptualise the hippocampus as a “generative model”.

It was a pleasure to be able to contribute to this exciting special issue with @sumedhanalluru.bsky.social @glitzleonie.bsky.social @xenianeuro.bsky.social and Valentina Mancini. Thanks to @peterkok.bsky.social @mariamaly.bsky.social @barense.bsky.social for putting it together!

Congratulations to Adrien for this tour de force that redefines the relevant oscillations for memory processing in humans! It was great to be a part of it. @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

And here it is again!

*** New paper from the lab in Nature Comms !! *** “Noradrenaline causes a spread of association in the hippocampal cognitive map” by the amazing @reneecabbage.bsky.social in collab. w labs of Jill O’Reilly, Will Clarke, and modeling from Prakriti Parthasarathy and @tpvogels.bsky.social, see below!

Today! 13:15–16:15 poster session #cosyne26 @sumedhanalluru.bsky.social

At #cosyne2026? Check out Sumedha Nalluru’s poster from our lab! Showing that reduced cortical inhibition causes false associations. Friday 13th March from 1:15 - 4:15pm.

Exciting preprint from @glitzleonie.bsky.social on curriculum learning and cognitive maps !

Reminder to get in touch if you want to apply to the below PhD positions!

🎓NEW PhD Studentship-Project FIVE 🧠Enhancing memory using cross-species closed-loop Targeted Memory Reactivation ⏳Deadline: Tue 2nd Dec 2025, 12:00 midday (BST). www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/project/enha... @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

🎓NEW PhD Studentship-Project SIX 🧠Enhancing memory using Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation and Targeted Memory Reactivation ⏳Deadline: Tue 2nd Dec 2025, 12:00 midday (BST). www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/project/enha... @ndcnoxford.bsky.social @medsci.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

** We have up to TWO funded PhD positions available in our lab!! Apply below to find new ways to enhance memory👇 Pls retweet ** Deadline: 2nd December 1. Cross-species closed-loopTMR: tinyurl.com/bddu4tp6 2. TUS and TMR in humans: tinyurl.com/jjws5ctj Happy to chat to interested applicants.

🔊NDCN researchers to co-lead new £50m MRC Centre. The new Medical Research Council Centre of Research Excellence (MRC CoRE) aims to develop brain stimulation devices to treat conditions such as Parkinson’s, dementia, stroke and childhood epilepsy. Read more: tinyurl.com/mr359x2d

@ukri.org announces new MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Restorative Neural Dynamics. 🎉🏆🚀 National flagship aiming to transform medical device-based treatments for brain conditions. #neurotech @ox.ac.uk ‪‪@greatormondst.bsky.social‬ @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social

I'm pleased to share our new work, “Spatio-temporal organization of network activity patterns in the hippocampus”, out in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social ! With Demi Brizee & David Dupret, we track how oscillations and spiking behaviour map onto hippocampal layers using an LFP-based embedding. (1/13)

We just pushed “Memory by a 1000 rules” onto bioRxiv, where we use clever #ML to find #plasticity quadruplets (EE, EI, IE, II) that learn basic stability in spiking nets. Why is it cool? We find 1000s!! of solutions, and they don’t just stabilise. They #memorise! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

*** ! Closing soon ! Postdoc position available in the lab ***

!! 1 WEEK to go !! postdoc position available in our lab with deadline 3rd June. Do get in touch if you'd like to chat. Details below.

*** Come join us !! We are recruiting !! *** How does the brain generate beliefs that go beyond direct experience? How do these mechanisms go awry in psychosis? The Barron lab tinyurl.com/bdf4drjf @MRCBNDU @NDCNOxford are recruiting a new postdoc tinyurl.com/ut4vbwt4 to work in mouse models

Huge congratulations to Dr Mufeng Tang!! www.mrcbndu.ox.ac.uk/news/mufeng-...

And looking forward to this symposium on Sunday!

Excited to be speaking at ‘Reasoning Algorithms Across Species, Diagnoses and Development’, upcoming online conference April 23rd 11:00am-5pm ET. obssr.od.nih.gov/news-and-eve...