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Kate J. Jeffery is affiliated with the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience, with a focus on cognitive neuroscience and related subfields. Their research output includes a wide range of topics centered on memory and neural mechanisms, neuroscience and neuropharmacology research, and sensory function studies, among others.

The main fields of study for Kate J. Jeffery include Neuroscience, with a strong emphasis on the following subfields:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
  • Sensory Systems
  • Cell Biology
  • Sociology and Political Science

Key topics covered in their research span:

  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Zebrafish Biomedical Research Applications
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research

Some of the recent papers authored in collaboration with other researchers include:

  • The place-cell representation of volumetric space in rats, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Irregular distribution of grid cell firing fields in rats exploring a 3D volumetric space, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Evidence for two distinct thalamocortical circuits in retrosplenial cortex, 2021, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
  • Hippocampal place cells encode global location but not connectivity in a complex space, 2021, Current Biology
  • Climate crisis and ecological emergency: Why they concern (neuro)scientists, and what we can do, 2022, Brain and Neuroscience Advances

The scientist frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Roddy M. Grieves
  • Selim Jedidi-Ayoub
  • Anyi Liu
  • Éléonore Duvelle
  • Eleonora Lomi

Kate J. Jeffery's work is published regularly in a number of venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Hippocampus
  • Trends in Neurosciences
  • African Journal of Ecology
  • Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • Path integration in mammals

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  • Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids

    Caswell Barry;Robin Hayman;Neil Burgess;Kathryn J Jeffery

  • The boundary vector cell model of place cell firing and spatial memory.

    Caswell Barry;Colin Lever;Robin Hayman;Tom Hartley

  • Integration of visual motion and locomotion in mouse visual cortex

    Aman B Saleem;Aslı Ayaz;Kathryn J Jeffery;Kenneth D Harris;Kenneth D Harris;Kenneth D Harris

  • Heterogeneous Modulation of Place Cell Firing by Changes in Context

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  • Retrosplenial cortex and its role in spatial cognition

    Anna S. Mitchell;Rafal Czajkowski;Ningyu Zhang;Kate Jeffery

  • An independent, landmark-dominated head direction signal in dysgranular retrosplenial cortex

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  • The representation of space in the brain.

    Roddy M. Grieves;Kate J. Jeffery

  • Learned interaction of visual and idiothetic cues in the control of place field orientation

    K. J. Jeffery;John M. O’Keefe

  • Anisotropic encoding of three-dimensional space by place cells and grid cells.

    Robin Hayman;Madeleine A Verriotis;Aleksandar Jovalekic;Aleksandar Jovalekic;André A Fenton;André A Fenton

  • Grid Cells Form a Global Representation of Connected Environments

    Francis Carpenter;Daniel Manson;Kate Jeffery;Neil Burgess

  • Place Field Repetition and Purely Local Remapping in a Multicompartment Environment

    Hugo J. Spiers;Robin M. A. Hayman;Aleksandar Jovalekic;Elizabeth Marozzi

  • Preserved performance in a hippocampal‐dependent spatial task despite complete place cell remapping

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  • Induction of Fos-like immunoreactivity and the maintenance of long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus of unanesthetized rats

    K.J. Jeffery;W.C. Abraham;M. Dragunow;S.E. Mason

  • A proposed architecture for the neural representation of spatial context

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  • Integration of the sensory inputs to place cells: What, where, why, and how?

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  • The place-cell representation of volumetric space in rats.

    Roddy M. Grieves;Selim Jedidi-Ayoub;Karyna Mishchanchuk;Anyi Liu

  • Context‐specific acquisition of location discrimination by hippocampal place cells

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  • Insensitivity of Place Cells to the Value of Spatial Goals in a Two-Choice Flexible Navigation Task.

    Éléonore Duvelle;Éléonore Duvelle;Éléonore Duvelle;Roddy M Grieves;Vincent Hok;Bruno Poucet

  • Learning of landmark stability and instability by hippocampal place cells

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  • A metric for the cognitive map: found at last?

    Kathryn J. Jeffery;Neil Burgess

  • Grid Cells Encode Local Positional Information

    Revekka Ismakov;Omri Barak;Kate Jeffery;Dori Derdikman

  • Horizontal biases in rats' use of three-dimensional space.

    Aleksandar Jovalekic;Robin Hayman;Natalia Becares;Harry Reid

  • Multivoxel pattern analysis reveals 3D place information in the human hippocampus

    Misun Kim;Kate J. Jeffery;Eleanor A. Maguire

  • Landmark-Based Updating of the Head Direction System by Retrosplenial Cortex: A Computational Model.

    Hector J. I. Page;Kate J. Jeffery

  • Irregular distribution of grid cell firing fields in rats exploring a 3D volumetric space

    Roddy M. Grieves;Roddy M. Grieves;Selim Jedidi-Ayoub;Karyna Mishchanchuk;Anyi Liu

  • Retrosplenial and postsubicular head direction cells compared during visual landmark discrimination

    Yave Roberto Lozano;Hector Page;Pierre-Yves Jacob;Eleonora Lomi

  • The Hippocampus: From Memory, to Map, to Memory Map

    Kate J. Jeffery

  • Evidence for two distinct thalamocortical circuits in retrosplenial cortex.

    Eleonora Lomi;Mathias L. Mathiasen;Han Y. Cheng;Ningyu Zhang

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Summerfield
Christopher Summerfield University of Oxford
John Patrick Aggleton
John Patrick Aggleton Cardiff University
Giovanni Pezzulo
Giovanni Pezzulo National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Hugo J. Spiers
Hugo J. Spiers University College London
Adam R. Aron
Adam R. Aron University of California, San Diego
Richard B. Ivry
Richard B. Ivry University of California, Berkeley
Russell A. Poldrack
Russell A. Poldrack Stanford University
Bruno Poucet
Bruno Poucet Aix-Marseille University
Caswell Barry
Caswell Barry University College London
Etienne Save
Etienne Save Aix-Marseille University

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