Peer-reviewed publications
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
Reviews and perspectives
Jeffery (2025) Why is complexification time-asymmetric?Interface Focus, 15(5). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2025.0017
Jeffery (2024) Unweaving the cognitive map: A personal history. Hippocampus 35 (1), e23674
MT Craig, MH Bielska, KJ Jeffery Mechanisms and implications of gamma oscillation plasticitySpotlight in Trends in Neurosciences
KJ Jeffery, K Cheng, NS Newcombe, VP Bingman, R Menzel Unpacking the navigation toolbox: insights from comparative cognition Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291 (2016), 20231304
KJ Jeffery The mosaic structure of the mammalian cognitive map Learning & Behavior, 1-16
I Ragazzi, M Farley, K Jeffery, I Butnar Using life cycle assessments to guide reduction in the carbon footprint of single-use lab consumables PLOS Sustainability and Transformation 2 (9), e0000080
Jeffery, K. J. (2022). Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci., 378(1869), 20210452.
Rae, C. L., Farley, M., Jeffery, K. J., & Urai, A. E. (2022). Climate crisis and ecological emergency: Why they concern (neuro)scientists, and what we can do. Brain and Neuroscience Advances, 6, 239821282210754.
Jeffery, K. J. (2021). How environmental movement constraints shape the neural code for space. Cognitive Processing, 22(s1), 97–104.
Fricker, D., Beraneck, M., Tagliabue, M., & Jeffery, K. J. (2020). Editorial: Coding for spatial orientation in humans and animals: behavior, circuits and neurons. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 14 (November), 1–2.
Patil, M., & Jeffery, K. J. (2020). What does climate change mean for occupational health professionals? Occupational Medicine, 70(6), 386–388.
Jeffery KJ and Rovelli C (2020) Transitions in brain evolution: space, time and entropy.Trends in Neurosciences, 43(7) 467-474.
Aron AR, Ivry R, Jeffery KJ, Poldrack R, Schmidt R, Summerfield C and Urai AE (2020) How can neuroscientists respond to the climate emergency?Neuron 106(1):17-20.
Jeffery KJ, Pollack R and Rovelli C (2019) On the statistical mechanics of life: Schrödinger revisitedEntropy 21(12)
Jeffery KJ (2019) Urban architecture: A cognitive neuroscience perspectiveThe Design Journal 22(6)
Jeffery KJ (2018) Cognitive representations of spatial locationBrain and Neuroscience Advances 2:1-5.
Duvelle É and Jeffery KJ (2018) Social spaces: Place cells represent the locations of others. Current Biology, 28, R254-R277 doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.02.017
Mitchell A, Czajkowski R, Zhang N, Jeffery KJ and Nelson, A (2017) Retrosplenial cortex and its role in spatial cognitionBrain and Neuroscience Advances, 2: 1-13
Jeffery KJ (2018) The hippocampus: From memory, to map, to memory map. Trends in Neurosciences series on Science & Society, 41(2), 64-66
Grieves R and Jeffery, KJ (2017) The representation of space in the brain. Behavioural Processes 135:113-131. doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2016.12.012
Overington DWU and Jeffery KJ (2016) Hidden depths in the hippocampal circuitry. Neuron 91(3):499-501.
Jeffery KJ (2015) Spatial cognition: Entorhinal cortex and the hippocampal place-cell map. Current Biology, 25(24):R1181-3.
Jeffery KJ, Wilson JJ, Casali G, Hayman R (2015) Neural encoding of large-scale three-dimensional space - properties and constraints. Frontiers in Psychology, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00927pdf
Jeffery KJ (2015) Distorting the metric fabric of the cognitive map. Trends in Cognitive Sciences pii: S1364-6613(15)00075-3. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2015.04.00
Jeffery KJ (2014) Spatial mapping: Graded precision of entorhinal head direction cells. Current Biology 24(3): R113-4. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.12.036
Jeffery KJ, Jovalekic A, Verriotis M and Hayman R (2013) Navigating in a three-dimensional world. Target article and Discussion in Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(5) 523-543
Jeffery KJ (2013) Neural odometry: The discrete charm of the entorhinal cortex. Current Biology, 23(5) R204 - R20
Marozzi E and Jeffery, KJ (2012) Place, space and memory cells. Current Biology 22(22) R940-R942
Jeffery KJ (2011) Place cells, grid cells, attractors and remapping.Neural Plasticity doi: 10.1155/2011/182602
Jeffery KJ and Cacucci F (2010) Who moved my cheese (again)? Nature Neuroscience 13(8) 911-912
Jeffery KJ (2010) Theoretical accounts of spatial learning - a neurobiological view (commentary on Pearce 2009). Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 63(9):1683-99
Jeffery KJ (2007) Self-localization and the entorhinal-hippocampal system. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 17(6):684-691
Jeffery KJ (2007) Do discrimination tasks discourage multi-dimensional stimulus processing? Evidence from a cross-modal object discrimination in rats. Behavioural Brain Research,183(2):213-21
Jeffery KJ (2007) Hippocampus and its interactions within the medial temporal lobe. Hippocampus, 17(9):693-6
Jeffery KJ (2007) Integration of the sensory inputs to place cells: what, where, why and how. Hippocampus,17(9):775-85
Barry C, Lever C, Hayman R, Hartley T, Burton S, O’Keefe J, Jeffery K and Burgess N (2006) The boundary vector cell model of place cell firing and spatial memory. Reviews in the Neurosciences, 17(1-2):71-97
Jeffery KJ and Burgess N (2006) A metric for the cognitive map - found at last? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(1):1-3
Jeffery KJ and Hayman R (2004) Plasticity of the hippocampal place cell representation. Reviews in the Neurosciences,15(5):309-31
Jeffery KJ (2004) Remembrance of futures past. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8: 197-199
Jeffery KJ, Anderson MI, Hayman R and Chakraborty S (2004) A proposed architecture for the neural representation of spatial context. Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Reviews, 28: 201-218
Etienne AS and Jeffery KJ (2004) Path integration in mammals. Hippocampus, 14: 180-192
Jeffery KJ (2000) LTP - A mechanism in search of a function. Commentary in: Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 286-287
O'Keefe J, Burgess N, Donnett J, Jeffery K and Maguire E (1998) Place cells, navigational accuracy and the human hippocampus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) 353: 1333-1340
Jeffery KJ and O'Keefe J. (1998) Wormholes and avian space-time. Nature News & Views, 395: 215-216
Burgess N, Donnett JG, Jeffery KJ and O’Keefe J (1997) Robotic and neuronal simulation of the hippocampus and rat navigation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 352: 1535-1543
Jeffery KJ (1997) LTP and spatial learning — where to next? Hippocampus, 7: 95-110
Jeffery KJ and Reid IC (1997) Modifiable neuronal connections - an overview for psychiatrists. American Journal of Psychiatry, 154: 156-164
Edited journal special issues
Hippocampus special issue on Hippocampus and its interactions within the medial temporal lobe, Volume 17, Number 9, July 2007
Connection Science special issue on navigation, Volume 16, Number 2, June 2004