Featured publications

• The Training Village: an open platform for continuous testing of rodents in cognitive tasks.

  Serrano-Porcar B; Marin R; Rodríguez J; Barezzi C; Vasoya H;

  Kean D; Pottinger D; Taylor A; Vergara HM; de la Rocha J.

  Reference:

  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2026.

• Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal.

  Greenstreet F; Vergara HM; Johansson Y; Pati S; Schwarz L;

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  Cohen J; Thompson E; Margrie TW; Clopath C; Stephenson-Jones M.

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  Reference:

  NATURE 2025.

• Rapid, systematic updating of movement by accumulated decision evidence

  Molano-Mazon, Manuel; Garcia-Duran, Alexandre; Pastor-Ciurana, Jordi; Hernandez-Navarro, Lluis; Bektic, Lejla;

  Lombardo, Debora; de la Rocha, Jaime; Hyafil, Alexandre.

  Reference:

  Nature Communications 2024.

• Episodic recruitment of attractor dynamics in frontal cortex reveals distinct mechanisms for forgetting and lack of cognitive control in short-term memory

  T Ona-Jodar; G Prat-Ortega; C Li; J Dalmau; A Compte;

  J de la Rocha.

  Reference:

  bioRxiv 2024.

• Recurrent networks endowed with structural priors explain suboptimal animal behavior

  Molano-Mazon, Manuel; Shao, Yuxiu; Duque, Daniel; Yang, Guangyu Robert; Ostojic, Srdjan;

  de la Rocha, Jaime.

  Reference:

  CURRENT BIOLOGY 2023.

• Proactive and reactive accumulation-to-bound processes compete during perceptual decisions

  Hernandez-Navarro, Lluis; Hermoso-Mendizabal, Ainhoa; Duque, Daniel; de la Rocha, Jaime; Hyafil, Alexandre;

  Reference:

  Nature Communications 2021.

• Flexible categorization in perceptual decision making

  Prat-Ortega, Genis; Wimmer, Klaus; Roxin, Alex; de la Rocha, Jaime;

  Reference:

  Nature Communications 2021.

• High-Throughput Task to Study Memory Recall During Spatial Navigation in Rodents

  Morales, Lucia; Tomas, David P; Dalmau, Josep; de la Rocha, Jaime; Jercog, Pablo E;

  Reference:

  Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 2020.

• Response outcomes gate the impact of expectations on perceptual decisions

  Hermoso-Mendizabal, Ainhoa; Hyafil, Alexandre; Rueda-Orozco, Pavel E; Jaramillo, Santiago; Robbe, David;

  de la Rocha, Jaime.

  Reference:

  Nature Communications 2020.

• UP-DOWN cortical dynamics reflect state transitions in a bistable network.

  Jercog, Daniel; Roxin, Alex; Bertho, Peter; Luczak, Artur; Compte, Albert;

  de la Rocha, Jaime.

  Reference:

  eLife 2017.