Kiah Hardcastle

Differential kinematic coding in sensorimotor striatum across species-typical and learned behaviors reflects a difference in control

This study shows that the sensorimotor striatum is not essential for species-typical behaviors but plays a role in shaping skilled behaviors through distinct coding schemes.

Explaining heterogeneity in medial entorhinal cortex with task-driven neural networks

This study uses task-driven neural networks to show that heterogeneous MEC cells are functionally significant and that reward-modulated models better capture MEC response profiles than traditional models.

Entorhinal velocity signals reflect environmental geometry

This study shows that entorhinal velocity signals rescale with environmental geometry and head direction cells reorganize in response to environmental changes.

Emergent Elasticity in the Neural Code for Space

The paper develops a neural attractor model that explains how animals construct spatial maps using self-motion and landmark cues, showing emergent elasticity in grid cell firing patterns.