CACUCCI LAB

Prof Francesca Cacucci

Principal Investigator

I am interested in brain circuits, memory, space, time, origins and endings.

Publications | ResearchGate | e-mail

Dr Joshua Bassett

Post-doc

I study the head direction system to understand how a group of neurons can be organised to compute integration over time.  More generally, I’m interested in how sensory and motor signals contribute to cognitive representations, how brains and cognition evolve, and comparative neuroanatomy.

Publications | ResearchGate | e-mail

twitter: @joshbassett

Dr Eleonora Lomi

Post-doc

I study how information about objects and boundaries is represented in cortical regions of the hippocampal network, with a particular focus on the development of allocentric and egocentric neural reference frames. I am also interested in how these representations emerge and interact with the thalamocortical head direction system via the retrosplenial cortex.

Dr Rafael Pedrosa

Post-doc

Jake Swann

PhD Candidate

I am interested in the development of the neural circuitry underlying spatial cognition. My project focusses on how inputs to hippocampal place cells sculpt their development, and how this corresponds to the emergence of spatial memory in young animals.