I am: A Serra Hunter Associate Professor at UPF.

I am interested in: Decision making, perception, neural networks, population encoding. 

One discovery I am proud of: In the simplest imaginable tasks, such as frequency discrimination and numerosity estimation, we display low performance and show strong biases. Why is information in the brain about these tasks that low? We have found a pariticular type of correlations in the activity of neurons that ultimately might explain why we have low information in the brain.

One thing I would like to discover next: How the brain generally represents, and learns to represent, behaviourally relevant variables. The algorithms that the brain uses to process and transform information efficiently.

One article I would like you to read: R. Moreno-Bote, J. Beck, I. Kanitscheider, X. Pitkow, P. Latham and A. Pouget. Information-limiting correlations. Nature Neuroscience, 17, 1410–1417, 2014.