William Dorrell

An Efficient Computing Theory of Prefrontal Structured Working Memory Representations

The paper develops an efficient computing theory to explain optimal representations in prefrontal cortex working memory tasks, showing compositional and contextual codes as extremes of a spectrum determined by task structure.

A Cellular Basis for Mapping Behavioural Structure

The paper identifies a neuronal mechanism in mice that maps abstract behavioural structure, enabling zero-shot learning of new tasks through goal-progress cells in the medial frontal cortex.

Bilateral alignment of receptive fields in the olfactory cortex

The paper shows that odor responses in the olfactory cortex of mice are highly matched between hemispheres, allowing decoding of odor identity and laterality through Hebbian plasticity.

Replay of procedural experience is independent of the hippocampus

The paper shows that replay of procedural memory during sleep occurs in the dorsal striatum and is independent of the hippocampus.

On prefrontal working memory and hippocampal episodic memory: Unifying memories stored in weights and activity slots

This paper develops a mathematical theory unifying hippocampal episodic memory and prefrontal working memory by linking memory storage in synapses to controllable neural activity slots.