Hannah L. Payne

The paper shows that place cells in chickadees activate both when the bird is in a location and when it gazes at it from a distance, linking place coding to gaze through head saccades.

The paper models interactions between feedback, neural activity, and plasticity in a closed-loop motor learning task, showing how plasticity signs can change with feedback strength.

The paper identifies spatial representations and sharp wave ripples in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird, suggesting conserved mechanisms across vertebrates.