Mechanisms of predictive sensorimotor plasticity in the primary visual cortex

Rebecca Jordan is a systems neuroscientist and Simons ESAT Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, where she leads the Prediction and Plasticity lab. Her lab's research focuses on understanding how the brain learns to predict sensory input and integrate sensorimotor information, with particular emphasis on the interplay between cortical circuits and neuromodulatory systems such as the locus coeruleus. Dr Jordan completed her BA in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and earned her PhD in neuroscience at the Francis Crick Institute. She then conducted postdoctoral research at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland before establishing her independent research group in Edinburgh. Her lab's work combines cutting-edge techniques including virtual reality tasks for mice, in vivo intracellular electrophysiology, 2-photon imaging, and optogenetics to uncover the mechanisms of cortical predictive learning.

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