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Prof John O'Keefe

UK DRI Affiliate Member - UCL

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience - Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

News

Mar 14, 2024 - Feature

UK DRI Grand Challenge: uncovering the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease

A major new UK DRI Grand Challenge project, led by Prof Karen Duff, Centre Director...

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Key publications

Cell reports methods

Published Jan 16, 2026

Dissecting novel object exploration in a fully automated homecage-based novel object recognition test

Authors

Hinze Ho, Nejc Kejzar, Stephen Burton, Loukia Katsouri, Marino Krstulovic, Eszter Sara Arany, John O'Keefe, Marius Bauza, Julija Krupic

Dissecting novel object exploration in a fully automated homecage-based novel object recognition test

Physiol Rev

Published Jul 01, 2021

Do hippocampal pyramidal cells respond to nonspatial stimuli?

Authors

John O'Keefe, Julija Krupic

Do hippocampal pyramidal cells respond to nonspatial stimuli?

Science

Published Mar 09, 2018

Local transformations of the hippocampal cognitive map.

Authors

Julija Krupic, Marius Bauza, Stephen Burton, John O'Keefe

Local transformations of the hippocampal cognitive map.

Nature

Published Feb 01, 2018

The honeycomb maze provides a novel test to study hippocampal-dependent spatial navigation.

Authors

Ruth A Wood, Marius Bauza, Julija Krupic, Stephen Burton, Andrea Delekate, Dennis Chan, John O'Keefe

The honeycomb maze provides a novel test to study hippocampal-dependent spatial navigation.