Yueqing Zhou
postdoctoral fellows
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Research Interests: Exploratory-related head-scanning predicts the generation of new place fields or the potentiation of existing place fields in hippocampus. Combining MFB stimulation and in-vivo one-photon calcium imaging techniques, my project focus on understanding how reward contributes to the head-scanning behavior and formation or potentiation of place fields in rats. Ring attractors are a class mechanistic model of internal dynamics underlying the head-direction (HD) system. By recording retrosplenial cortex in Dome which developed by Knierim Lab, my work also focus on providing evidence to understand whether the ring attractor models are compatible with brain anatomy and physiology in the ability of these allothetic inputs to control the activity hill in cases where the animal is disoriented or when there is a conflict between different sources of allothetic directional information.