Jonathan Robert Whitlock

About

Jonathan Whitlock is head of the Whitlock research group at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience. His focus is on unraveling how higher motor systems in cortex coordinate natural behavior and permit social learning. His group studies these phenomena by combining quantitative behavioral tracking with neuronal ensemble recordings in freely-behaving rats and mice. The group uses optogenetics and neuroanatomical methods to better understand the function and connectivity of relevant circuits, and has both local and international collaborations toward the development of statistical and machine learning-based analyses of high-dimensional neural and behavioral data.

Beyond the lab, Whitlock currently coordinates the Master's program in Neuroscience at the Kavli Institute, and organizes the Institute's course in Physiological Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience.

His group strarted at the Kavli Institute in 2014 under the auspices of an ERC starting grant, prior to which he was a Kavli post-doctoral fellow with Edvard and May-Britt Moser, studying navigational representations across parietal and entorhinal cortices. Prior to moving to Trondheim, he was a graduate student of Mark Bear at Brown University and MIT, with his thesis work demonstrating that synaptic connections in the hippocampus grew stronger as a consequence of single-trial learning in rats.

Publications

2024

Olsen, Valdemar Lee Kargård; Whitlock, Jonathan Robert; Roudi, Yasser. (2024) The quality and complexity of pairwise maximum entropy models for large cortical populations. PLoS Computational Biology
Academic article

2023

Fuglstad, Jingyi Guo; Saldanha, Pearl; Paglia, Jacopo; Whitlock, Jonathan Robert. (2023) Histological E-data Registration in rodent Brain Spaces. eLIFE
Academic article
Rautio, Ida Välikangas; Holmberg, Ella Holt; Kurup, Devika; Dunn, Benjamin Adric; Whitlock, Jonathan Robert. (2023) A novel paradigm for observational learning in rats. Cognitive Neurodynamics
Academic article
Hovde, Karoline; Rautio, Ida Välikangas; Hegstad, Andrea Marie; Witter, Menno Peter; Whitlock, Jonathan Robert. (2023) Visuomotor interactions in the mouse forebrain mediated by extrastriate cortico-cortical pathways. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
Academic article
Mimica, Bartul; Tombaz, Tuce; Battistin, Claudia; Fuglstad, Jingyi Guo; Dunn, Benjamin Adric; Whitlock, Jonathan Robert. (2023) Behavioral decomposition reveals rich encoding structure employed across neocortex in rats. Nature Communications
Academic article

2020

Gheorghiu, Medorian; Ciuparu, Andrei; Mimica, Bartul; Whitlock, Jonathan; Mureşan, Raul. (2020) A Machine Learning Approach to Investigate Fronto-Parietal Neural Ensemble Dynamics During Complex Behavior. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Gheorghiu, Medorian; Ciuparu, Andrei; Mimica, Bartul; Whitlock, Jonathan; Mureşan, Raul. (2020) A Machine Learning Approach to Investigate Fronto-Parietal Neural Ensemble Dynamics During Complex.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Tombaz, Tuce; Dunn, Benjamin Adric; Hovde, Karoline; Cubero, Ryan John Abat; Mimica, Bartul; Mamidanna, Pranav. (2020) Action representation in the mouse parieto-frontal network. Scientific Reports
Academic article

2019

Mimica, Bartul; Whitlock, Jonathan. (2019) Neural coding of behavior in the rodent associative cortices. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation
Olsen, Grethe Mari; Hovde, Karoline; Kondo, Hideki; Sakshaug, Teri; Sømme, Hanna Haaland; Whitlock, Jonathan. (2019) Organization of Posterior Parietal–Frontal Connections in the Rat. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Academic article

2018

Hovde, Karoline; Gianatti, Michele; Witter, Menno; Whitlock, Jonathan. (2018) Architecture and Organization of Mouse Posterior Parietal Cortex Relative to Extrastriate Areas. European Journal of Neuroscience
Academic article
Mimica, Bartul; Dunn, Benjamin Adric; Tombaz, Tuce; Bojja, V.P.T.N.C. Srikanth; Whitlock, Jonathan. (2018) Efficient cortical coding of 3D posture in freely behaving rats. Science
Academic article

2017

Whitlock, Jonathan. (2017) Posterior parietal cortex. Current Biology
Academic article
Whitlock, Jonathan. (2017) Movement Coding at the Mesoscale in Posterior Parietal Cortex. Neuron
Academic article

2014

Whitlock, Jonathan. (2014) Navigating actions through the rodent parietal cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Academic article

2012

Whitlock, Jonathan Robert; Derdikman, Dori Moshe. (2012) Head direction maps remain stable despite grid map fragmentation. Frontiers in Neural Circuits
Academic article
Whitlock, Jonathan; Pfuhl, Gerit; Dagslott, Nenitha; Moser, May-Britt; Moser, Edvard Ingjald. (2012) Functional Split between Parietal and Entorhinal Cortices in the Rat. Neuron
Academic article

2011

Derdikman, Dori Moshe; Bonnevie, Tora; Whitlock, Jonathan; Fyhn, Marianne; Hafting, Torkel; Moser, May-Britt. (2011) A brain full of maps. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience
Academic literature review

2009

Derdikman, Dori Moshe; Whitlock, Jonathan; Tsao, Albert; Fyhn, Marianne; Hafting, Torkel; Moser, May-Britt. (2009) Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment. Nature Neuroscience
Academic article
Whitlock, Jonathan; Moser, Edvard Ingjald. (2009) Synaptic Plasticity and Spatial Representations in the Hippocampus.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2008

Whitlock, Jonathan; Sutherland, Robert; Witter, Menno; Moser, May-Britt; Moser, Edvard Ingjald. (2008) Navigating from hippocampus to parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Editorial

2006

Whitlock, Jonathan; Heynen, Arnold; Shuler, Marshall; Bear, Mark. (2006) Learning Induces Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampus. Science
Academic article

Journal publications

Olsen, Valdemar Lee Kargård; Whitlock, Jonathan Robert; Roudi, Yasser. (2024) The quality and complexity of pairwise maximum entropy models for large cortical populations. PLoS Computational Biology
Academic article
Fuglstad, Jingyi Guo; Saldanha, Pearl; Paglia, Jacopo; Whitlock, Jonathan Robert. (2023) Histological E-data Registration in rodent Brain Spaces. eLIFE
Academic article
Rautio, Ida Välikangas; Holmberg, Ella Holt; Kurup, Devika; Dunn, Benjamin Adric; Whitlock, Jonathan Robert. (2023) A novel paradigm for observational learning in rats. Cognitive Neurodynamics
Academic article
Hovde, Karoline; Rautio, Ida Välikangas; Hegstad, Andrea Marie; Witter, Menno Peter; Whitlock, Jonathan Robert. (2023) Visuomotor interactions in the mouse forebrain mediated by extrastriate cortico-cortical pathways. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
Academic article
Mimica, Bartul; Tombaz, Tuce; Battistin, Claudia; Fuglstad, Jingyi Guo; Dunn, Benjamin Adric; Whitlock, Jonathan Robert. (2023) Behavioral decomposition reveals rich encoding structure employed across neocortex in rats. Nature Communications
Academic article
Tombaz, Tuce; Dunn, Benjamin Adric; Hovde, Karoline; Cubero, Ryan John Abat; Mimica, Bartul; Mamidanna, Pranav. (2020) Action representation in the mouse parieto-frontal network. Scientific Reports
Academic article
Olsen, Grethe Mari; Hovde, Karoline; Kondo, Hideki; Sakshaug, Teri; Sømme, Hanna Haaland; Whitlock, Jonathan. (2019) Organization of Posterior Parietal–Frontal Connections in the Rat. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
Academic article
Hovde, Karoline; Gianatti, Michele; Witter, Menno; Whitlock, Jonathan. (2018) Architecture and Organization of Mouse Posterior Parietal Cortex Relative to Extrastriate Areas. European Journal of Neuroscience
Academic article
Mimica, Bartul; Dunn, Benjamin Adric; Tombaz, Tuce; Bojja, V.P.T.N.C. Srikanth; Whitlock, Jonathan. (2018) Efficient cortical coding of 3D posture in freely behaving rats. Science
Academic article
Whitlock, Jonathan. (2017) Posterior parietal cortex. Current Biology
Academic article
Whitlock, Jonathan. (2017) Movement Coding at the Mesoscale in Posterior Parietal Cortex. Neuron
Academic article
Whitlock, Jonathan. (2014) Navigating actions through the rodent parietal cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Academic article
Whitlock, Jonathan Robert; Derdikman, Dori Moshe. (2012) Head direction maps remain stable despite grid map fragmentation. Frontiers in Neural Circuits
Academic article
Whitlock, Jonathan; Pfuhl, Gerit; Dagslott, Nenitha; Moser, May-Britt; Moser, Edvard Ingjald. (2012) Functional Split between Parietal and Entorhinal Cortices in the Rat. Neuron
Academic article
Derdikman, Dori Moshe; Bonnevie, Tora; Whitlock, Jonathan; Fyhn, Marianne; Hafting, Torkel; Moser, May-Britt. (2011) A brain full of maps. Journal of Molecular Neuroscience
Academic literature review
Derdikman, Dori Moshe; Whitlock, Jonathan; Tsao, Albert; Fyhn, Marianne; Hafting, Torkel; Moser, May-Britt. (2009) Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment. Nature Neuroscience
Academic article
Whitlock, Jonathan; Sutherland, Robert; Witter, Menno; Moser, May-Britt; Moser, Edvard Ingjald. (2008) Navigating from hippocampus to parietal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Editorial
Whitlock, Jonathan; Heynen, Arnold; Shuler, Marshall; Bear, Mark. (2006) Learning Induces Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampus. Science
Academic article

Books

Gheorghiu, Medorian; Ciuparu, Andrei; Mimica, Bartul; Whitlock, Jonathan; Mureşan, Raul. (2020) A Machine Learning Approach to Investigate Fronto-Parietal Neural Ensemble Dynamics During Complex Behavior. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Part of book/report

Gheorghiu, Medorian; Ciuparu, Andrei; Mimica, Bartul; Whitlock, Jonathan; Mureşan, Raul. (2020) A Machine Learning Approach to Investigate Fronto-Parietal Neural Ensemble Dynamics During Complex.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Whitlock, Jonathan; Moser, Edvard Ingjald. (2009) Synaptic Plasticity and Spatial Representations in the Hippocampus.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

Mimica, Bartul; Whitlock, Jonathan. (2019) Neural coding of behavior in the rodent associative cortices. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation

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