Bendor Lab: Audition to Memory

Bendor Lab

Audition to Memory

We use behavioural, computational, electrophysiological and molecular-genetic tools to study how the neocortex and hippocampus encode information and communicate with each other. Our goal is to understand the neural mechanisms of memory, perception and predictive coding, and the functional role of sleep.

Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience, University College London

Members of the Bendor Lab at lunch by a lake, 2025
Spike rasters and decoded position for hippocampal place cells while a rat runs two tracks, and two replay events during rest afterwards.
Place cells recorded while a rat ran laps on two tracks, and two replay events during rest afterwards. In each event the cells fire in the order they did on one track, compressed into about 200 ms. Adapted from Tirole, Huelin Gorriz et al. (2022), eLife 11:e79031, CC BY 4.0

Recent papers

  1. Jarzebowski P, Bendor D Temporal Gating by Chandelier Cells Encodes Signed Prediction Errors bioRxiv preprint (2026)Free to read
  2. Tirole M, Duvelle É, Bendor D Time, but not reward, shapes replay-based episodic prioritization bioRxiv preprint (2026)Free PDF
  3. Takigawa M, Tong D, Horrocks EAB, Saleem AB, Bendor D Interplay of sleep neural oscillations enhances coordinated memory reactivation between cortex and hippocampus bioRxiv preprint (2026)Free to read
  4. van der Meer MAA, Bendor D Awake replay: off the clock but on the job Trends in Neurosciences, 48(4):257–267 (2025)Free PDF

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News

  • October 2026 Aditi Bishnoi has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship.
  • June 2026 We posted three preprints on bioRxiv: on chandelier cells and signed prediction errors, on how time and reward shape replay prioritisation, and on sleep oscillations and coordinated memory reactivation between cortex and hippocampus. See the preprints
  • April 2025 Matthijs van der Meer and Dan Bendor review awake replay in Trends in Neurosciences: ‘Awake replay: off the clock but on the job’. Read the review
  • January 2025 Masa Takigawa and Dan Bendor write about replay in Science: ‘Replaying off the beaten path’. Read the article

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