James C. R. Whittington

How much neuroscience does a neuroscientist need to know?

How much of the brain’s learned algorithms depend on the fact it is a brain? We argue: a lot, but surprisingly few details matter. We point to simple biological details—e.g. nonnegative firing and energetic/space budgets in connectionist architectures—which, when mixed with the r...

Inferential planning in the frontal cortex

Abstract How the brain plans and maintains sequences of future actions remains a central question in systems neuroscience. Recent studies in the frontal cortex have revealed that multiple elements of a sequence are represented simultaneously in separable neural subspaces, challen...