From recording birdsong circuits to modelling the plasticity rules behind cognitive maps.
Impact Scholars Program 2026, Team In Orbit: Sheetal Jadhav, Giorgio Li Pira, Chiara Gorlini, Jean-Yves Montenay, Mariem Younssi.
Cover image: International Brain Laboratory task schematic
A biophysically detailed model of hippocampal subcircuits that builds a cognitive map on its own, combining ITDP-driven recruitment of silent neurons with BTSP stabilisation during spatial navigation.
A review of the neural mechanisms behind birdsong generation and recognition, and how predictive coding theory can be applied to the songbird.
Cover image: Long Lab, NYU Langone Health
How a zebra finch's brain prepares, produces and corrects its song, from in vivo recordings of song circuits to computational models of the same circuits.
Cover art: Amirmasoud Ahmadi, The Journal of Neuroscience cover, Vol. 46, No. 43 (28 Oct 2026)