Matthijs A. A. van der Meer

This study challenges the canonical view of the nucleus prepositus hypoglossi as an angular head velocity relay by showing its neurons predominantly encode eye movements rather than head motion.

This study shows that hippocampal theta oscillations distinguish memory-guided from exploratory eye movements in humans through power and coherence changes.

The paper shows that state-dependent geometric transformations in the mouse hippocampus enable fear generalization without losing context discriminability.

The paper shows that ventral striatal dopamine increases after hippocampal sharp-wave ripples in mice, suggesting a link between hippocampal replay and dopamine signaling during memory processing.

The paper introduces an open-source, modular maze system for rodent behavior research that improves flexibility, automation, and experimental repeatability.

The paper tests the CTC hypothesis by showing that a third of striatal neurons exhibit phase-dependent excitability in the delta frequency band.

The paper shows that paradoxical replay protects rich task representations from unbalanced experience in both simulations and rat experiments.

This study shows that strong aversive experiences in mice drive offline reactivation of both recent aversive and older neutral memories, linking them across days.

The paper investigates how context coding in the mouse nucleus accumbens modulates motivationally relevant information during a task, finding value-independent coding for context cues.

The paper shows that hippocampal activity patterns across different rats can be predicted using geometric alignment, revealing shared representational structures in rodent memory encoding.

The paper shows that gamma LFP oscillations in anterior limbic structures are volume-conducted from the piriform cortex, not generated locally.

The paper shows that reward revaluation shifts hippocampal replay sequences away from the preferred outcome, suggesting these sequences do not reflect recent experience or goal-directed trajectories.

This study characterizes rhythmic spiking activity in rat ventral striatal neurons across frequencies and cell types, revealing dynamic spike-field relationships and inter-area coupling.

This study shows that rat nucleus accumbens encodes cue identity, location, and expected outcome simultaneously, with this coding persisting through decision and outcome phases.

The paper identifies the piriform cortex as the origin of gamma oscillations in the rat ventral striatum, showing that local circuitry in the ventral striatum is not the primary driver.

This study shows that cross-validation improves decoding of internally generated hippocampal activity and introduces a modified Bayesian decoding method that reduces decoding errors.