Anna-Maria Jürgensen, PhD

Computational neuroscientist with roots in Psychology, currently based in London. I work in Claudia Clopath’s lab at Imperial College and Marta Zlatic at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge.

My research focuses on the circuit-level mechanisms of learning and memory in the insect mushroom body — a central brain structure for sensory integration, learning and the control of learned behaviour.

Current projects investigate how reinforcement is distributed across dopaminergic neurons in the mushroom body, and how the individual neurons contribute to learning through distinct, parallel learning rules. I am particularly interested in mechanisms of credit assignment, reinforcement prediction, and how multiple memories are maintained in parallel and integrated to guide behaviour.

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