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  1. Accounting for sensitivity of latent learning to behavioral statistics with successor representations

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, March 2026, PLOS

    Sen Cheng

  2. Working memory performance is tied to stimulus complexity

    Article • Communications Biology, November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sen Cheng

  3. Global remapping emerges as the mechanism for renewal of context-dependent behavior in a reinforcement learning model

    Article • November 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  4. Electrophysiological Mechanisms in the Anterior Insula Cortex during Reward Expectancy

    Article • September 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  5. A map of spatial navigation for neuroscience

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, September 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  6. A Multisession SLAM Approach for RatSLAM

    Article • Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sen Cheng

  7. Learning to predict future locations with internally generated theta sequences

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, May 2023, PLOS

    Sen Cheng

  8. Optogenetics reveals paradoxical network stabilizations in hippocampal CA1 and CA3

    Article • Current Biology, May 2023, Elsevier

    Sen Cheng

  9. Modeling the function of episodic memory in spatial learning

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, April 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  10. Navigation and the efficiency of spatial coding: insights from closed-loop simulations

    Article • Brain Structure and Function, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sen Cheng

  11. A model of hippocampal replay driven by experience and environmental structure facilitates spatial learning

    Article • eLife, March 2023, eLife

    Sen Cheng

  12. CoBeL-RL: A neuroscience-oriented simulation framework for complex behavior and learning

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, March 2023, Frontiers

    Sen Cheng

  13. A Map of Spatial Navigation for Neuroscience

    Article • January 2023, Center for Open Science

    Sen Cheng

  14. Learning to predict future locations with internally generated theta sequences

    Article • January 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  15. Navigation and the Efficiency of Spatial Coding: Insights from Closed-Loop Simulations

    Article • January 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  16. Solidity Meets Surprise: Cerebral and Behavioral Effects of Learning from Episodic Prediction Errors

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, January 2023, The MIT Press

    Sen Cheng

  17. CoBeL-RL: A neuroscience-oriented simulation framework for complex behavior and learning

    Article • December 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  18. Navigation task and action space drive the emergence of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, October 2022, PLOS

    Sen Cheng

  19. xRatSLAM: An Extensible RatSLAM Computational Framework

    Article • Sensors, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Sen Cheng

  20. Where was the toaster? A systematic investigation of semantic construction in a new virtual episodic memory paradigm

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, September 2022, SAGE Publications

    Sen Cheng

  21. A Model of Semantic Completion in Generative Episodic Memory

    Article • Neural Computation, August 2022, The MIT Press

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  22. Learning shifts the preferred theta phase of gamma oscillations in CA1

    Article • Hippocampus, August 2022, Wiley

    Abdelrahman Rayan, Sen Cheng

  23. A Model of Hippocampal Replay Driven by Experience and Environmental Structure Facilitates Spatial Learning

    Article • July 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  24. Navigation task and action space drive the emergence of egocentric and allocentric spatial representations

    Article • June 2022, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  25. The cerebellum contributes to context-effects during fear extinction learning: A 7T fMRI study

    Article • NeuroImage, June 2022, Elsevier

    Sen Cheng

  26. Corrigendum: Seeing What I Did (Not): Cerebral and Behavioral Effects of Agency and Perspective on Episodic Memory Re-activation

    Article • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, March 2022, Frontiers

    Sen Cheng

  27. Seeing What I Did (Not): Cerebral and Behavioral Effects of Agency and Perspective on Episodic Memory Re-activation

    Article • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2022, Frontiers

    Sen Cheng

  28. What Happened When? Cerebral Processing of Modified Structure and Content in Episodic Cueing

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, January 2022, The MIT Press

    Sen Cheng

  29. Learning Cognitive Map Representations for Navigation by Sensory–Motor Integration

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, January 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Sen Cheng

  30. The computational benefits of episodic memory in spatial learning

    Article • November 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  31. Seeing what I did (not): Cerebral and behavioral effects of agency and perspective on episodic memory re-activation

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Sen Cheng

  32. What happened when? Brain and behavioral responses to modified structure and content in episodic cueing

    Article • November 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  33. Where was the Toaster? A systematic investigation of semantic construction in a new virtual episodic memory paradigm

    Article • November 2021, Center for Open Science

    Sen Cheng

  34. A multistage retrieval account of associative recognition ROC curves

    Article • Learning & Memory, October 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  35. Neuronal sequences during theta rely on behavior-dependent spatial maps

    Article • eLife, October 2021, eLife

    Sen Cheng

  36. Working memory performance is tied to stimulus complexity

    Article • September 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  37. Emergence of complex dynamics of choice due to repeated exposures to extinction learning

    Article • Animal Cognition, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sen Cheng

  38. Recognition Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves: The Complex Influence of Input Statistics, Memory, and Decision-making

    Article • Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, May 2021, The MIT Press

    Sen Cheng

  39. Self-referential false associations: A self-enhanced constructive effect for verbal but not pictorial stimuli

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, April 2021, SAGE Publications

    Sen Cheng

  40. Behavior-dependent spatial maps enable efficient theta phase coding

    Article • April 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  41. Context-dependent extinction learning emerging from raw sensory inputs: a reinforcement learning approach

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  42. Trial-by-trial dynamics of reward prediction error-associated signals during extinction learning and renewal

    Article • Progress in Neurobiology, February 2021, Elsevier

    Sen Cheng

  43. Automatic Tuning of RatSLAM’s Parameters by Irace and Iterative Closest Point

    Article • October 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Sen Cheng

  44. Cover Image, Volume 30, Issue 6

    Article • Hippocampus, June 2020, Wiley

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  45. Context-dependent extinction learning emerging from raw sensory inputs: A reinforcement learning approach

    Article • April 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  46. Emergence of complex dynamics of choice due to repeated exposures to extinction learning

    Article • April 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Sen Cheng

  47. Improving sensory representations using episodic memory

    Article • Hippocampus, December 2019, Wiley

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  48. How do memory modules differentially contribute to familiarity and recollection?

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Sen Cheng

  49. A Parallel RatSlam C++ Library Implementation

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sen Cheng

  50. Emerging category representation in the visual forebrain hierarchy of pigeons (Columba livia)

    Article • Behavioural Brain Research, January 2019, Elsevier

    Sen Cheng

  51. Hippocampal Reactivation Extends for Several Hours Following Novel Experience

    Article • Journal of Neuroscience, December 2018, Society for Neuroscience

    Sen Cheng

  52. A Neuro-Inspired Approach to Solve a Simultaneous Location and Mapping Task Using Shared Information in Multiple Robots Systems

    Article • November 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Sen Cheng

  53. Autonomous Exploration Guided by Optimisation Metaheuristic

    Article • November 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Sen Cheng

  54. Storage fidelity for sequence memory in the hippocampal circuit

    Article • PLOS One, October 2018, PLOS

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  55. The reduction of adult neurogenesis in depression impairs the retrieval of new as well as remote episodic memory

    Article • PLOS One, June 2018, PLOS

    Sen Cheng

  56. Modelling how different memory systems affect each other

    Article • Neural Computation, February 2018, The MIT Press

    Sen Cheng, Professor Laurenz Wiskott

  57. Doing without metarepresentation: Scenario construction explains the epistemic generativity and privileged status of episodic memory

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Sen Cheng

  58. 26th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS*2017): Part 2

    Article • BMC Neuroscience, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  59. From grid cells to place cells with realistic field sizes

    Article • PLOS One, July 2017, PLOS

    Sen Cheng

  60. Taxonomy and unity of memory

    Article • July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Sen Cheng

  61. Consolidation of Episodic Memory: An Epiphenomenon of Semantic Learning

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sen Cheng

  62. Topological Schemas of Cognitive Maps

    Article • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, March 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Yuri Dabaghian, Sen Cheng

  63. Dissociating memory traces and scenario construction in mental time travel

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, January 2016, Elsevier

    Sen Cheng

  64. Self-organization of synchronous activity propagation in neuronal networks driven by local excitation

    Article • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, June 2015, Frontiers

    Sen Cheng

  65. Memory Storage Fidelity in the Hippocampal Circuit: The Role of Subregions and Input Statistics

    Article • PLoS Computational Biology, May 2015, PLOS

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  66. What is episodic memory if it is a natural kind?

    Article • Synthese, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sen Cheng

  67. Modeling the Dynamics of Disease States in Depression

    Article • PLOS One, October 2014, PLOS

    Sen Cheng

  68. Parametric Anatomical Modeling: a method for modeling the anatomical layout of neurons and their projections

    Article • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, September 2014, Frontiers

    Sen Cheng

  69. The transformation of grid to place cells is robust to noise in the grid pattern

    Article • BMC Neuroscience, July 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sen Cheng

  70. The transformation from grid cells to place cells is robust to noise in the grid pattern

    Article • Hippocampus, June 2014, Wiley

    Sen Cheng

  71. Pattern Association and Consolidation Emerges from Connectivity Properties between Cortex and Hippocampus

    Article • PLOS One, January 2014, PLOS

    Sen Cheng

  72. Composition and replay of mnemonic sequences: The contributions of REM and slow-wave sleep to episodic memory

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, November 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Sen Cheng

  73. Identification of two forebrain structures that mediate execution of memorized sequences in the pigeon

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, February 2013, American Physiological Society

    Sen Cheng

  74. A computational model for preplay in the hippocampus

    Article • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, January 2013, Frontiers

    Professor Laurenz Wiskott, Sen Cheng

  75. The CRISP theory of hippocampal function in episodic memory

    Article • Frontiers in Neural Circuits, January 2013, Frontiers

    Sen Cheng

  76. Constraints on the synchronization of entorhinal cortex stellate cells

    Article • Physical Review E, July 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Sen Cheng

  77. Synchronization of entorhinal cortex stellate cells

    Article • BMC Neuroscience, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sen Cheng

  78. The structure of networks that produce the transformation from grid cells to place cells

    Article • Neuroscience, December 2011, Elsevier

    Sen Cheng

  79. Reactivation, Replay, and Preplay: How It Might All Fit Together

    Article • Neural Plasticity, January 2011, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Sen Cheng

  80. New Experiences Enhance Coordinated Neural Activity in the Hippocampus

    Article • Neuron, January 2008, Elsevier

    Sen Cheng

  81. Calibration of Visually Guided Reaching Is Driven by Error-Corrective Learning and Internal Dynamics

    Article • Journal of Neurophysiology, April 2007, American Physiological Society

    Sen Cheng

  82. Statistical and dynamic models of charge balance functions

    Article • Physical Review C, May 2004, American Physical Society (APS)

    Sen Cheng

  83. Removing distortions from charge balance functions

    Article • Physical Review C, July 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Sen Cheng

  84. Isospin fluctuations from a thermally equilibrated hadron gas

    Article • Physical Review C, April 2003, American Physical Society (APS)

    Sen Cheng

  85. Effect of finite-range interactions in classical transport theory

    Article • Physical Review C, January 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Sen Cheng

  86. Quantum corrections for pion correlations involving resonance decays

    Article • Physical Review C, April 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Sen Cheng