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Jovanna M. Willock

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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FixGrower: An efficient and robust curriculum for shaping fixation behavior in rodents

Jessica R. Breda, Julie A. Charlton, Jovanna M. Willock, Charles D. Kopec, Carlos D. Brody

FixGrower is a standardized protocol for training center-port fixation in rodents, reducing training time by 61% and lowering violation rates across species and task difficulty.

bioRxiv · Sep 12, 2025 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition

To integrate or not to integrate: Testing degenerate strategies for solving an accumulation of perceptual evidence decision-making task

Charles D. Kopec, Thomas Zhihao Luo, Adrian Bondy, Diksha Gupta, Verity Alexander Elliott, Julie A. Charlton, Jessica R. Breda, Wynne M Stagnaro, Emily J Reyes, Adrian I Sirko, Andrés Bustos, Jovanna M. Willock, Jessica M Morrison, Klaus L Osorio, Carlos D. Brody

The paper tests whether rats use an integration strategy or degenerate strategies in a perceptual decision-making task and finds they predominantly use integration.

bioRxiv · Aug 21, 2024 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition