Peer-reviewed data papers

• Williams, M., Street, J.S., Burgess, N. et al. (2026) Head direction cells use a head-referenced dual-axis updating rule in 3D space. Commun Biol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-026-10086-2

• Street, J. S., & Jeffery, K. J. (2024). The dorsal thalamic lateral geniculate nucleus is required for visual control of head direction cell firing direction in rats. Journal of Physiology.

• Cheng, H., Overington, D. and Jeffery, K.J. (2023) A configural context signal simultaneously but separably drives positioning and orientation of hippocampal place fields. Hippocampus, DOI: 10.1002/hipo.23589

• Lomi E., Jeffery K..J. & Mitchell A. (2023) Convergence of location, direction, and theta in the rat anteroventral thalamic nucleusiScience 26 (7) 106993

• Zhang, N., Grieves, R. M., & Jeffery, K. J. (2022). Environment symmetry drives a multidirectional code in rat retrosplenial cortex. J. Neurosci., 42(49), 9227–9241.

• Grieves, R. M., Jedidi-Ayoub, S., Mishchanchuk, K., Liu, A., Renaudineau, S., Duvelle, É., & Jeffery, K. J. (2021). Irregular distribution of grid cell firing fields in a volumetric space. Nature Neuroscience, ;24(11):1567-1573.

• Duvelle É, Grieves RM, Liu A, Jedidi-Ayoub S, Holeniewska J, Harris A, Nyberg N, Donnarumma F, Lefort JM, Jeffery KJ, Summerfield C, Pezzulo G and Spiers HJ (2021) Hippocampal place cells encode global location but not connectivity in a 4‑room environment. Current Biology 31, 1–13.

• Lomi, E., Mathiasen, M. L., Cheng, H. Y., Zhang, N., Aggleton, J. P., Mitchell, A. S., & Jeffery, K. J. (2021). Evidence for two distinct thalamocortical circuits in retrosplenial cortex. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 185, 107525.

• Jeffery, K., Guo, W., Ball, D., & Rodriguez-Sanchez, J. (2021). Visual imagination and cognitive mapping of a virtual building. Journal of Navigation, 1–14.

• Grieves RM, Jedidi-Ayoub S, Mishchanchuk K, Liu A, Renaudineau S, Jeffery KJ (2019) The place-cell representation of volumetric space in ratsNature Communications 11(789)

• Casali G, Bush D and Jeffery, KJ (2019) Altered neural odometry in the vertical dimensionPNAS

• Duvelle É, Grieves RM, HokV, Poucet B, ArleoA, Jeffery KJ and Save E (2019) Insensitivity of place cells to goal value in a two-choice flexible navigation taskJournal of Neuroscience.

• Page HJI and Jeffery KJ (2018) Landmark-based updating of the head direction system by retrosplenial cortex: A computational modelFrontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 12:191

• Page H, Wilson J, Jeffery KJ (2017) A proposed rule for updating of the head direction cell reference frame following rotations in three dimensions J Neurophysiol doi: 10.1152/jn.00501.2017

• Lozano Y, Page H, Jacob P-Y, Lomi E, Street J, Jeffery KJ (2017) Retrosplenial and postsubicular head direction cells compared during visual landmark discriminationBrain and Neuroscience Advances

• Ismakov R, Barak O, Jeffery KJ, Derdikman D (2017) Grid cells store local positional information. Current Biology 27(15):2337-2343 doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.06.034

• Kim M, Jeffery KJ, Maguire EA (2017) Multivoxel pattern analysis reveals isotropic 3D place representations in the human hippocampus. Journal of Neuroscience, 7(16):4270-4279.

• Jacob P-Y J, Casali G, Spieser L, Overington DWU, Page H, Jeffery KJ (2017) An independent, landmark-dominated head direction signal in dysgranular retrosplenial cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 20, 173-175

• Jeffery KJ, Page H, Stringer S (2016) Optimal cue combination and landmark-stability learning in the head direction system. J Physiol, 594.22 pp 6527-6534

• Hayman R, Casali G, Wilson J, Jeffery KJ (2015) Grid cells on steeply sloping terrain: evidence for planar rather than volumetric encoding Frontiers in Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00925

• Marozzi E, Ginzberg L-L, Alenda A, Jeffery KJ (2015) Purely translational realignment in grid cells following non-metric context change. Cerebral Cortex, 25(11):4619-27 doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhv120

• Wilson JJ, Harding E, Fortier M, James B, Donnett M, Kerslake A, O'Leary A, Zhang N, Jeffery KJ (2015) Spatial learning by mice in three dimensions. Behavioral Brain Research 289:125-132 doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.04.035

• Carpenter F, Manson D, Jeffery KJ, Burgess N, Barry C (2015) Grid cells form a global representation of connected environments. Current Biology, 25(9): 1176-1182

• Saleem AB, Ayaz A, Jeffery KJ, Harris KD, Carandini M (2013) Integration of visual motion and locomotion in mouse visual cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 16(12):1864-9. doi: 10.1038/nn.3567

• Knight R, Piette C, Page H, Walters D, Marozzi E, Nardini M, Stringer S, Jeffery KJ (2013) Weighted cue integration in the rodent head direction system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (London), 369(1635):20120512

• Page H, Walters D, Knight R, Piette C, Jeffery KJ, Stringer S (2013) A theoretical account of cue averaging in the rodent head direction system. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (London), 369(1635):20130283 ‍

• Spiers HJ, Hayman RM, Jovalekic A, Marozzi E and Jeffery KJ (2013) Place field repetition and purely local remapping in a multi-compartment environment. Cerebral Cortex, 25(1):10-25.doi: 10.1093/cercor/bht198

• Bello-Medina PC, Sánchez-Carrasco L, González-Ornelas NR, Jeffery KJ, Ramirez-Amaya, V (2013) Differential effects of space vs. massed training in long-term object-identity and object-location recognition memory. Behavioural Brain Research, 250 (1) 102-113

• Knight R, Hayman R, Ginzberg LL, and Jeffery, KJ (2011) Geometric cues influence head direction cells only weakly in non-disoriented rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(44):15681-92 ‍

• Hayman R, Verriotis M, Jovalekic A, Fenton A and Jeffery KJ (2011) Anisotropic encoding of three-dimensional space by place cells and grid cells. Nature Neuroscience, 14(9):1182-8

• Jovalekic A, Hayman R, Becares N, Reid H, Thomas G, Wilson J, Jeffery KJ (2011) Horizontal biases in rats’ use of three-dimensional space. Behavioural Brain Research, 222: 279-288

• Hayman R and Jeffery K (2008) How heterogeneous place cell responding arises from homogeneous grids - a contextual gating hypothesis. Hippocampus, 18:1301-13 ‍

• Hayman R, Donnett JG and Jeffery KJ (2008) The fuzzy-boundary arena - A method for constraining an animal’s range in spatial experiments without using walls. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 167(2):184-90 ‍

• Barry C, Hayman R, Burgess N, Jeffery KJ (2007) Experience-dependent rescaling of entorhinal grids. Nature Neuroscience, 10(6): 282-284

• Anderson MI, Killing S, Morris C, O’Donoghue A, Onyiagha DK, Stevenson R, Verriotis M, Jeffery KJ (2006) Behavioral correlates of the population coding of spatial context. Hippocampus, 16: 730-742 ‍

• Minini L and Jeffery KJ (2006) Do rats use shape to solve “shape discriminations”? Learning & Memory, 13(3):287-297

• Jeffery KJ, Anand RL and Anderson MI (2006) A role for terrain slope in orienting hippocampal place fields. Experimental Brain Research,169(2):218-25

• Chakraborty S, Anderson MI, Chaudhry A, Mumford J and Jeffery KJ (2004) Context-independent directional cue learning by hippocampal place cells. European Journal of Neuroscience, 20(1): 281-292

• Hayman R, Chakraborty S, Anderson MI and Jeffery KJ (2003) Context-specific acquisition of location discrimination by hippocampal place cells. European Journal of Neuroscience,18: 2825-2834.

• Jeffery KJ and Anderson MI (2003) Dissociation of the geometric and contextual influences on place cells. Hippocampus, 13: 868-872

• Anderson MI and Jeffery KJ (2003) Heterogeneous modulation of place cell firing by changes in context. Journal of Neuroscience, 23: 8827-8835

• Jeffery KJ, Gilbert A, Burton S and Strudwick A (2003) Preserved performance in a hippocampal dependent spatial task despite complete place cell remapping. Hippocampus, 13: 175-189

• Jeffery KJ and O'Keefe J (1999) Learned interaction of visual and idiothetic cues in the control of place field orientation. Experimental Brain Research 127: 151-161

• Jeffery KJ (1998) Learning of landmark stability and instability by hippocampal place cells. Neuropharmacology, 37: 677-687

• Jeffery KJ, Donnett JG, Burgess N and O’Keefe JM (1997) Directional control of the orientation of hippocampal place fields. Experimental Brain Research, 117: 131-142

• Jeffery KJ, Donnett JG and O’Keefe J (1995) Medial septal control of theta-correlated unit firing in the entorhinal cortex of awake rats. NeuroReport, 6: 2166-2170 ‍

• Jeffery KJ (1995) Paradoxical enhancement of long-term potentiation in poor-learning rats at low test stimulus intensities. Experimental Brain Research, 104: 55-69

• Stewart CA, Jeffery KJ and Reid IC (1994) LTP-like synaptic efficacy changes following electroconvulsive stimulation. NeuroReport, 5: 1041-1044

• Jeffery KJ and Morris RGM (1993) Cumulative long-term potentiation in the rat dentate gyrus correlates with, but does not modify, performance in the watermaze. Hippocampus, 3: 133-140 ‍

• And finally, my first-ever paper!‍ ‍

• Jeffery KJ, Abraham WC, Dragunow M and Mason SE (1990) Induction of Fos-like immunoreactivity and the maintenance of long-term potentiation in the dentate gyrus of unanaesthetized rats. Molecular Brain Research, 8: 267-274 ‍