Prof Thomas Akam is a Neuroscientist at the Oxford University Department of Experimental Psychology.  He is a Wellcome Career Development Fellow and Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, and leads the Cognitive Circuits research group.

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Brain Architecture for Adaptive Behaviour
Thomas Akam, RLDM 2025 Tutorial

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• Thomas Akam on Google Scholar
• pyPhotometry : Open source, Python based, fiber photometry data acquisition 
• pyControl : Open source, Python based, behavioural experiment control.
• Uncertainty-based competition between prefrontal and dorsolateral striatal systems for behavioral control, Nathaniel D Daw, Yael Niv, Peter Dayan, 2005
• Further analysis of the hippocampal amnesic syndrome: 14-year follow-up study of H. M., Milner, B., Corkin, S., & Teuber, H. L., 1968
• Internally generated cell assembly sequences in the rat hippocampus, Pastalkova E, Itskov V, Amarasingham A, Buzsáki G. Science. 2008
• Multi-disciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision 2025