Ferran Junoy

Currently a first year DPhil student under the supervision of Prof. Steve Kennerley, my project will focus on cognitive maps in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) that power value-based decision making. I am particularly interested in why grid-like codes emerge and are utilised in the medial PFC, and how this might link back to maps of physical space in the hippocampal formation. 

Previously, during my Master's at UCL, I worked with Prof. Caswell Barry to model subicular attractor network representations of boundaries in space. For my DPhil, I intend to combine what we know about the hippocampal formation and PFC to better understand the role of prefrontal grid codes in encoding abstract information for decision-making. This research will rely on biologically plausible computational modelling and analyses of the rich neural data collected by the Kennerley lab.