Jonathan Whitlock
Background and activities
Jonathan Whitlock is head of the Whitlock research group at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience. His focus is on unraveling the neural circuits involved in action-planning and action understanding.
Whitlock started at the Kavli Institute in a post-doctoral position with Edvard and May-Britt Moser, characterizing and comparing navigational representations across parietal and entorhinal cortices in freely-behaving rats.
He was a graduate student of Mark Bear, first at Brown University, then MIT. For his thesis work he used a combination of biochemical and electrophysiological techniques to demonstrate that synaptic connections in the hippocampus grew stronger as a consequence of single-trial learning in rats.
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2018) Architecture and Organization of Mouse Posterior Parietal Cortex Relative to Extrastriate Areas. European Journal of Neuroscience.
- (2018) Efficient cortical coding of 3D posture in freely behaving rats. Science. vol. 362 (6414).
- (2017) Movement Coding at the Mesoscale in Posterior Parietal Cortex. Neuron.
- (2017) Posterior parietal cortex. Current Biology.
- (2014) Navigating actions through the rodent parietal cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. vol. 8 (MAY).
- (2012) 702.01/DDD17 - Impaired spatial periodicity of grid cells in a novel environment. SFN Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner.
- (2012) Head direction maps remain stable despite grid map fragmentation. Frontiers in Neural Circuits. vol. 6.
- (2012) Functional Split between Parietal and Entorhinal Cortices in the Rat. Neuron. vol. 73 (4).
- (2010) Effects of parietal cortical inactivation on representations in entorhinal cortex. Society for Neuroscience : Abstracts.
- (2009) Fragmentation of grid cell maps in a multicompartment environment. Nature Neuroscience. vol. 12 (10).
- (2006) Learning Induces Long-Term Potentiation in the Hippocampus. Science. vol. 313 (5790).
Part of book/report
- (2009) Synaptic Plasticity and Spatial Representations in the Hippocampus. The Cognitive Neurosciences, 4th Edition.