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Eléonore Duvelle has received her PhD degree in Neuroscience (with distinction très honorable avec félicitations) from the University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris. Her thesis was titled “Role of hippocampus in goal representation: insights from behavioural and electrophysiological approaches”. The PhD committee consisted of 7 members: Jean-Christophe Cassel (Univ. Strasbourg), Sidney Wiener (Collège de France, Paris), Philippe Faure (CNRS, Paris), Kate Jeffery (UCL, UK), Bruno Poucet (CNRS, Marseille), Etienne Save (cosupervisor, CNRS, Marseille), Angelo Arleo (cosupervisor, CNRS, Paris).

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• FEBRUARY 2014: The team moved to the Vision Institute Paris to establish a new lab focusing on Ageing in Vision and Action. The new lab will combine psychophysical experiments with the elderly and theoretical neuroscience models to characterise the impact of visual ageing on perceptual and cognitive functions.
• November 2013: Jérémie Pinoteau has received his PhD degree (with distinction / très honorable avec félicitations) from the University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris. The PhD committee consisted of 6 members: J. Krichmar (reviewer), University of California Irvine, USA; C. Oddo (reviewer), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy; E. Ros (examiner), University of Granada, Spain; D. Balzagette (examiner), DGA, France; M. Hafez (examiner), CEA, France; V. Hayward (president of the jury), University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris; A. Arleo (advisor), University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris.
• September 2013: The paper Optic flow stimuli update anterodorsal thalamus head direction neuronal activity in rats (by Arleo A, Déjean C, Allegraud P, Khamassi M, Zugaro MB, Wiener SI) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience.
• July 2013: The paper Dopaminergic control of LTD/LTP threshold in prefrontal cortex (by Sheynikhovich D, Otani S, Arleo A) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neuroscience.
• June 2013: The paper A closed-loop neurobotic system for fine touch sensing (by Bologna LL, Pinoteau J, Passot J-B, Garrido JA, Vogel J, Ros Vidal E, and Arleo A) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Neural Engineering.
• June 2013: The paper Coupling internal cerebellar models enhances online adaptation and supports online consolidation in sensorimotor tasks (by Passot J-B., Luque N. R., and Arleo A) has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

• May 2013: D. Sheynikhovich has been appointed as an associated professor at UPMC.
• February 2013: The paper A Navigation Analysis Tool (NAT) to assess spatial behavior in open-field and structured mazes (by Jarlier et al.) has been accepted for publication in J Neurosci Methods.
• January 2013: The paper Integration of sensory quanta in cuneate nucleus neurons in vivo (by Bengtsson F, Brasselet R, Johansson RS, Arleo A and Joerntell H) has been accepted for publication in PLoS ONE.
• January 2013: T. Masquelier has been appointed as a permanent researcher at ANC (CNRS CR2). A. Arleo has been promoted Director of Research (CNRS DR2).
• June 2012: The paper Exploratory behaviour depends on multisensory integration during spatial learning (by Sheynikhovich D., Grèezes F., King J.-R., and Arleo A.) has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of ICANN 2012 (in press).
• April 2012: The paper A Closed-loop Neurorobotic System for Investigating Braille-reading Finger Kinematics (by Pinoteau J*, Bologna LL*, Garrido J, Arleo A) has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of Eurohaptics 2012 (in press), Tampere, Finland, 2012.
• April 2012: The paper Active tactile sensing in a neurorobotic Braille-reading system (by Bologna LL*, Pinoteau J*, Garrido J, Arleo A) has been accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 4th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics – BioRob 2012 (in press), Rome, Italy, 2012.
• January 2012: The paper Contribution of cerebellar sensorimotor adaptation to hippocampal spatial memory (by Passot JB, Sheynikhovich D, Duvelle E, Arleo A) has been accepted for publication in the Journal PLoS ONE.
• September 2011: Jean-Baptiste Passot has received his PhD degree (with distinction / très honorable avec felicitations). The PhD committee consisted of 6 members: J. Krichmar, reviewer, (University of California – Irvine, USA); E. Ros, reviewer, (University of Granada, Spain); D. Wolpert, examiner, (University of Cambridge, UK); E. Burguière, examiner, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA); B. Gas, president of the jury, (University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris); A. Arleo, PhD advisor, (CNRS, University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris).
• August 2011: The paper The role of tonic and phasic dopamine for long-term synaptic plasticity in the prefrontal cortex: a computational model (by Sheynikhovich D, Otani S, Arleo A) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physiology P.
• August 2011: The paper Encoding/decoding of first and second order tactile afferents in a neurorobotic application (by Bologna LL, Pinoteau J, Brasselet R, Maggiali M, Arleo, A) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Physiology P.
• June 2011: The paper Isometric coding of spiking haptic signals by peripheral somatosensory neurons. (by Brasselet R, Johansson RS, Arleo A) has been accepted for publication in the LNCS proceedings of the 11th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2011).
• May 2011: The paper Spatial learning and action planning in a prefrontal cortical network model (by Martinet L-E, Sheynikhovich D, Benchenane K, Arleo A) has been published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology.
• April 2011: The paper Quantifying neurotransmission reliability through metrics based information analysis (by Brasselet R, Johansson RS, Arleo A) has been published in the journal Neural Computation.
• December 2010: Romain Brasselet has received his PhD degree (with distinction / très honorable avec felicitations). The PhD committee consisted of 6 members: J. Victor, reviewer, (Weill Cornell Medical College, NY, USA); S. Panzeri, reviewer, (Italian Institute of Technology, Genova, Italy); R. Johansson, examiner, (Umea University, Sweden); S. Thorpe, examiner, (CNRS, Brain and Cognition Research Center, Toulouse, France); V. Hayward, president of the jury, (University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris); A. Arleo, PhD advisor.
• December 2010: The paper A reinforcement learning approach to model interactions between landmarks and geometric cues during spatial learning (by Sheynikhovich D and Arleo A) has been published in the journal of Brain Research.
• October 2010: Louis-Emmanuel Martinet has received his PhD degree (with distinction / très honorable avec felicitations). The PhD committee consisted of 7 members: F. Battaglia, reviewer, (University of Amsterdam); R. Chavarriaga, reviewer, (EPFL); Yves Burnod, examiner, (Institut of Complex Systems Paris); B. Poucet, examiner, (University of Provence); B. Gas, president of the jury, (University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris); J.-A. Meyer, invited examiner, (University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris); A. Arleo, PhD advisor.
• August 2010: The paper How synaptic release probability shapes neuronal transmission: Information theoretic analysis in a cerebellar granule cell (by Arleo et al.) has been published in the journal of Neural Computation, 22(8):2031-2058.