Simone Ciceri

This study develops a phenomenological model of memory consolidation that describes it as a brain-wide process involving representational drift and provides a functional interpretation of drift as a mechanism for improved memory retention.

The paper demonstrates how chemoaffinity-based connectivity rules can establish innate cognitive functions and motor programs by structuring recurrent neuronal networks before experience.

The paper analyzes neural activity in mouse cortex during stimulus detection and develops a network model showing PPC mediates report-related activity in V1, with PFC playing a secondary role.