Selmaan Chettih, PhD
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Selmaan Chettih, PhD
We study the neural basis of memory in food-caching birds.
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Assistant Professor, Neuroscience
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The Chettih lab studies the neural mechanisms underlying naturalistic and dynamic cognition. We focus on the remarkable memory of food-caching birds, like black-capped chickadees who remember the location of thousands of individual food items hidden throughout their territory. We develop novel tools for systems neuroscience in the chickadee including optical, electrophysiological, behavioral and computational methods.
Last Updated on August 02, 2026.
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Neuroscience
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- Postdoc
- Columbia (2026)
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- Harvard University, Neuroscience
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- Swarthmore College (2010)
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Memory; Neurosciences
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0000-0003-2045-3747Selmaan Chettih
We study the neural mechanisms of memory, with chickadees as the primary model.
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2026
Barcode activity in a recurrent network model of the hippocampus enables efficient memory binding
Fang C, Lindsey JW, Abbott LF, Aronov D, Chettih SN. Barcode activity in a recurrent network model of the hippocampus enables efficient memory binding. ELife 2026, 14: RP103512. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.103512.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2024
Barcoding of episodic memories in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird
Chettih S, Mackevicius E, Hale S, Aronov D. Barcoding of episodic memories in the hippocampus of a food-caching bird. Cell 2024, 187: 1922-1935.e20. PMID: 38554707, PMCID: PMC11015962, DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.02.032.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricThe influence of cortical activity on perception depends on behavioral state and sensory context
Russell L, Fişek M, Yang Z, Tan L, Packer A, Dalgleish H, Chettih S, Harvey C, Häusser M. The influence of cortical activity on perception depends on behavioral state and sensory context. Nature Communications 2024, 15: 2456. PMID: 38503769, PMCID: PMC10951313, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46484-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2022
Shared and specialized coding across posterior cortical areas for dynamic navigation decisions
Tseng S, Chettih S, Arlt C, Barroso-Luque R, Harvey C. Shared and specialized coding across posterior cortical areas for dynamic navigation decisions. Neuron 2022, 110: 2484-2502.e16. PMID: 35679861, PMCID: PMC9357051, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.05.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2021
Geometric deep learning enables 3D kinematic profiling across species and environments
Dunn T, Marshall J, Severson K, Aldarondo D, Hildebrand D, Chettih S, Wang W, Gellis A, Carlson D, Aronov D, Freiwald W, Wang F, Ölveczky B. Geometric deep learning enables 3D kinematic profiling across species and environments. Nature Methods 2021, 18: 564-573. PMID: 33875887, PMCID: PMC8530226, DOI: 10.1038/s41592-021-01106-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricScaling of sensory information in large neural populations shows signatures of information-limiting correlations
Kafashan M, Jaffe A, Chettih S, Nogueira R, Arandia-Romero I, Harvey C, Moreno-Bote R, Drugowitsch J. Scaling of sensory information in large neural populations shows signatures of information-limiting correlations. Nature Communications 2021, 12: 473. PMID: 33473113, PMCID: PMC7817840, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-20722-y.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2019
Voltage imaging and optogenetics reveal behaviour-dependent changes in hippocampal dynamics
Adam Y, Kim J, Lou S, Zhao Y, Xie M, Brinks D, Wu H, Mostajo-Radji M, Kheifets S, Parot V, Chettih S, Williams K, Gmeiner B, Farhi S, Madisen L, Buchanan E, Kinsella I, Zhou D, Paninski L, Harvey C, Zeng H, Arlotta P, Campbell R, Cohen A. Voltage imaging and optogenetics reveal behaviour-dependent changes in hippocampal dynamics. Nature 2019, 569: 413-417. PMID: 31043747, PMCID: PMC6613938, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1166-7.Commentaries, Editorials and LettersCitationsAltmetricHNCcorr: A Novel Combinatorial Approach for Cell Identification in Calcium-Imaging Movies
Spaen Q, Asín-Achá R, Chettih S, Minderer M, Harvey C, Hochbaum D. HNCcorr: A Novel Combinatorial Approach for Cell Identification in Calcium-Imaging Movies. ENeuro 2019, 6: eneuro.0304-18.2019. PMID: 31058211, PMCID: PMC6498417, DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0304-18.2019.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricSingle-neuron perturbations reveal feature-specific competition in V1
Chettih S, Harvey C. Single-neuron perturbations reveal feature-specific competition in V1. Nature 2019, 567: 334-340. PMID: 30842660, PMCID: PMC6682407, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-0997-6.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetric
2018
Silk Fibroin Films Facilitate Single-Step Targeted Expression of Optogenetic Proteins
Jackman S, Chen C, Chettih S, Neufeld S, Drew I, Agba C, Flaquer I, Stefano A, Kennedy T, Belinsky J, Roberston K, Beron C, Sabatini B, Harvey C, Regehr W. Silk Fibroin Films Facilitate Single-Step Targeted Expression of Optogenetic Proteins. Cell Reports 2018, 22: 3351-3361. PMID: 29562189, PMCID: PMC5894120, DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.02.081.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords
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