Jaime De La Rocha

About me

Featured publications

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

  Authors:

  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.

• Rapid, systematic updating of movement by accumulated decision evidence

  Authors:

  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

  Authors:

  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

  Authors:

  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

  Authors:

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

  Reference: Nature Communications 2021.

• Flexible categorization in perceptual decision making

  Authors:

  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

  Authors:

  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

  Authors:

  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.

  Authors:

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

  de la Rocha, Jaime.

  Reference: eLife 2017.

• Sensory integration dynamics in a hierarchical network explains choice probabilities in cortical area MT

  Authors:

  Wimmer, Klaus; Compte, Albert; Roxin, Alex; Peixoto, Diogo; Renart, Alfonso;

  de la Rocha, Jaime.

  Reference: Nature Communications 2015.

Featured Projects

• From premature to protracted decision-making: Neural mechanisms underlying transdiagnostic biases in deliberation

  Principal investigator: Jaime de la Rocha Vazquez

  Funder: Wellcome Trust

  Code: INT_WellcomeTrust24

  Duration: 01/02/2026 - 31/01/2031

• Training Village 2.0: fully automated and continuous behavioral testing of rodents, incorporating wireless optogenetics and social phenotyping

  Principal investigator: Jaime de la Rocha Vazquez

  Funder: Agencia Estatal de Investigación

  Code: PDC2025-165278-I00

  Duration: 01/02/2026 - 31/08/2028

• The Mouse Village: a fully automated training platform for the development of behavioral biomarkers in brain disorders

  Principal investigator: Jaime de la Rocha Vazquez

  Funder: European Commission

  Code: CE_HE_ERC_2022_PoC2

  Duration: 01/03/2023 - 31/08/2024

• CRCNS: Circuit mechanisms of priors and learning during decision making

  Principal investigator: Jaime de la Rocha Vazquez

  Funder: National Institutes of Health

  Code: INT_NIH_PAR-22-002

  Duration: 01/03/2023 - 31/07/2025

• PRIORS: Neural circuit dynamics underlying expectation and their impact on the variability of perceptual choices

  Principal investigator: Jaime de la Rocha Vazquez

  Funder: European Commission

  Code: CE-H202-ERC-2015-Co

  Duration: 01/09/2016 - 28/02/2022