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 first year of a new era.
Journal article
Behrens TE. et al, (2024), Elife, 13
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Distributional reinforcement learning in prefrontal cortex.
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Muller TH. et al, (2024), Nat Neurosci
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A cognitive map for value-guided choice in ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
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Veselic S. et al, (2023), bioRxiv
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Generative replay underlies compositional inference in the hippocampal-prefrontal circuit.
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Schwartenbeck P. et al, (2023), Cell, 186, 4885 - 4897.e14
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PET-measured human dopamine synthesis capacity and receptor availability predict trading rewards and time-costs during foraging.
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Ianni AM. et al, (2023), Nat Commun, 14
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The human brain reactivates context-specific past information at event boundaries of naturalistic experiences.
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Hahamy A. et al, (2023), Nat Neurosci, 26, 1080 - 1089
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Replay and compositional computation.
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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.
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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.
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Samborska V. et al, (2022), Nat Neurosci, 25, 1314 - 1326