James E. Fitzgerald

The paper shows that visual encoding in zebrafish brains aligns with optomotor behavior, indicating sensory codes explicitly represent information needed for behavioral responses.

The paper shows that astrocyte activity drives brainwide changes in sensory, integrative, and motor computations during a passive state in zebrafish.

The paper explains how stochastic biochemical reaction networks generate heritable short-term cellular memory through molecular concentration variance, with implications for cell fate and environmental responses.

This paper shows that representational drift uncovers noise-robust neural representations that are difficult to learn but beneficial for memory stability.

The paper develops an all-optical system to study whole-brain neuronal dynamics during gut interoception in zebrafish, revealing how nutrient delivery and sensory stimuli are encoded across brain regions.

The paper constructs a neural network model for the fruit fly head direction system that aligns with connectome-derived architecture and enables continuous head-direction representation.

This paper introduces a computational method to infer synaptic plasticity rules from neural and behavioral data, revealing an active forgetting component in reward learning in Drosophila.

This study identifies synaptic plasticity mechanisms in Drosophila that incorporate reward expectations to drive operant matching behavior.

The paper shows that learning in the hippocampus produces orthogonalized neural representations resembling a state machine, captured by HMMs and biologically plausible networks, but not by gradient-based models.

This paper introduces a neural network model of systems consolidation that optimizes memory transfer for generalization, showing how selective consolidation supports both memory and adaptive behavior.

The paper identifies a brainstem circuit in larval zebrafish that integrates optic flow to maintain positional homeostasis by modulating cerebellar activity.

The paper introduces a computational tool to correct physical distortions in visual stimuli for larval zebrafish, improving reproducibility in neuroscience experiments.