Timothy Behrens
Professor of Computational Neuroscience
- Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow
- Deputy Director, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging
I head the Computational Neuroscience Group at WIN. We study how our brains learn and represent knowledge about the world in service of flexible behaviour. We use computational descriptions at the behavioural and network levels to form predictions, and test these in neurophysiological, neurochemical, and lesion data.
If you are interested in doing a PhD with me, the best route is through one of Oxford's (or UCL's) funded schemes. There are lots of them so check them out before contacting me.
Recent publications
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The human brain reactivates context-specific past information at event boundaries of naturalistic experiences.
Journal article
Hahamy A. et al, (2023), Nat Neurosci, 26, 1080 - 1089
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Replay and compositional computation.
Journal article
Kurth-Nelson Z. et al, (2023), Neuron
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Constructing future behaviour in the hippocampal formation through composition and replay
Preprint
Bakermans JJW. et al, (2023)
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Peer review without gatekeeping.
Journal article
Eisen MB. et al, (2022), Elife, 11
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Complementary task representations in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex for generalizing the structure of problems.
Journal article
Samborska V. et al, (2022), Nat Neurosci, 25, 1314 - 1326
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How to build a cognitive map.
Journal article
Whittington JCR. et al, (2022), Nat Neurosci, 25, 1257 - 1272
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Decoding cognition from spontaneous neural activity.
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Liu Y. et al, (2022), Nat Rev Neurosci, 23, 204 - 214
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Spatiotemporally resolved multivariate pattern analysis for M/EEG.
Journal article
Higgins C. et al, (2022), Hum Brain Mapp
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Reinforcement learning: Dopamine ramps with fuzzy value estimates.
Journal article
Whittington JCR. and Behrens TEJ., (2022), Curr Biol, 32, R213 - R215
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RELATING TRANSFORMERS TO MODELS AND NEURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE HIPPOCAMPAL FORMATION
Conference paper
Whittington JCR. et al, (2022), ICLR 2022 - 10th International Conference on Learning Representations