Publications

The hippocampus as a small-world cognitive map

J. Z. Kim, J. P. Sethna, I. Cohen, W. Sun

bioRxiv preprint, 2026

Ataraxis: Bridging AI Coding Assistants and Scientific Hardware

I. Kondratyev, W. Sun

Submitted, 2026

A Neuroscience-Inspired Dual-Process Model of Compositional Generalization

A. Noviello, C. Beger, J. Groner, K. Ellis, W. Sun

arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.18868, 2025

Geometric model manifold of space, time, and belief in hippocampal cognitive maps

J. Z. Kim, J. P. Sethna, I. Cohen, W. Sun

SMT 2025

Learning produces an orthogonalized state machine in the hippocampus

W. Sun, J. Winnubst, M. Natrajan, C. Lai, K. Kajikawa, A. Bast, M. Michaelos, R. Gattoni, C. Stringer, D. Flickinger, J. E. Fitzgerald, N. Spruston

Nature 640 (8057), 165-175, 2025

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Covered in The Transmitter

Organizing memories for generalization in complementary learning systems

W. Sun, M. Advani, N. Spruston, A. Saxe, J. E. Fitzgerald

Nature Neuroscience, 2023

Covered in Quanta Magazine

Bursting potentiates the neuro–AI connection

W. Sun, X. Zhao, N. Spruston

Nature Neuroscience, 2021

A sparse, spatially biased subtype of mature granule cell dominates recruitment in hippocampal-associated behaviors

S. R. Erwin, W. Sun, M. Copeland, S. Lindo, N. Spruston, M. S. Cembrowski

Cell Reports 31 (4), 2020