Dan-Anders Jirenhed

PhD in Neurophysiology from Lund University, Sweden (2007)

MSc in Cognitive Science from University of Linköping, Sweden (2001)

Previous positions

2011-2021 Researcher, Associative learning, Dept. of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University, Sweden.

2011-2012 Researcher (30%) in the Meaning of Action project at the Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies at Lund University, Sweden.

2009-2011  Postdoctoral fellow funded by the Swedish Research Council. Schnitzer lab at Stanford University, CA, USA.

2008-2009  Researcher, Associative learning, Dept. of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University, Sweden.

2007-2008  Postdoctoral fellow, Cerebellar Physiology, Dept. of Experimental Medical Science at Lund University, Sweden. at Lund Univeristy, Sweden.

Research Interests

I am interested in mechanisms underlying adaptive/intelligent behaviour, specifically in areas such as

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Peer Reviewed Publications


Etemadi L, Jirenhed DA, Rasmussen A. (2023) Effects of working memory load and CS-US intervals on delay eyeblink conditioning. NPJ Sci Learn. 2023 May 20;8(1):16. doi: 10.1038/s41539-023-00167-w.

CR Gallistel, F Johansson, DA Jirenhed, A Rasmussen, M Ricci , G Hesslow.  (2022). Quantitative properties of the creation and activation of a cell-intrinsic duration-encoding engram. Front Comput Neurosci. 2022 Nov 3;16:1019812. doi: 10.3389/fncom.2022.1019812.

G Hesslow, DA Jirenhed, F Johansson. (2021). Timing in Purkinje Cells and a Novel Learning Mechanism. In: Mizusawa H., Kakei S. (eds) Cerebellum as a CNS Hub. Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75817-2_15

Johansson F, Jirenhed DA, Rasmussen A, Zucca R, Hesslow G. (2018). Absence of Parallel Fibre to Purkinje Cell LTD During Eyeblink Conditioning. Sci Rep. 2018 Oct 3;8(1):14777. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-32791-7. 

Rasmussen A, Jirenhed DA. (2017). Learning and Timing of Voluntary Blink Responses Match Eyeblink Conditioning. Sci Rep. Jun 13;7(1):3404. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-03343-2.

Jirenhed DA, Rasmussen A ,Johansson F, Hesslow G. (2017). Learned response sequences in cerebellar Purkinje cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. Jun 6;114(23):6127-6132. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1621132114.

Jirenhed DA, Hesslow G. (2016). Are Purkinje Cell Pauses Drivers of Classically Conditioned Blink Responses? Cerebellum. 2016 Aug;15(4):526–34. doi: 10.1007/s12311-015-0722-4.

Rasmussen A, Zucca R, Johansson F, Jirenhed DA, Hesslow G. (2016). Purkinje cell activity during classical conditioning with different conditional stimuli explains central tenet of Rescorla–Wagner model. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. Oct 26. 14060–14065, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1516986112. PubMed page

Johansson F, Jirenhed DA, Rasmussen A, Zucca R, Hesslow G. (2014). Memory trace and timing mechanism localized to cerebellar Purkinje cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. Oct 14;111(41):14930-4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1415371111. PubMed page  

Rasmussen A, Jirenhed DA, Wetmore DZ, Hesslow G. (2014). Changes in complex spike activity during classical conditioning. Front Neural Circuits. doi: 10.3389/fncir.2014.00090. 

Rasmussen A, Zucca R, Jirenhed DA, Johansson F, Ortenblad C, Svensson P, Hesslow G. (2014). Golgi Cell Activity During Eyeblink Conditioning in Decerebrate Ferrets. Cerebellum. 2014 Feb;13(1):42-5. PubMed page

Wetmore DZ, Jirenhed DA, Rasmussen A, Johansson F, Schnitzer MJ, Hesslow G. (2014). Bidirectional plasticity of purkinje cells matches temporal features of learning. J Neurosci. 2014 Jan 29;34(5):1731-7. PubMed page

Rasmussen A, Jirenhed DA, Zucca R, Johansson F, Svensson P, Hesslow G. (2013). Number of spikes in climbing fibers determines the direction of cerebellar learning. J Neurosci. 2013 Aug 14;33(33):13436-40. PubMed page

Jirenhed DA, Bengtsson F, Jörntell H. (2013). Parallel fiber and climbing fiber responses in rat cerebellar cortical neurons in vivo. Front Syst Neurosci. 2013 May 17;7:16. PubMed page

Hesslow G, Jirenhed DA, Rasmussen A, Johansson F. (2013). Classical conditioning of motor responses: What is the learning mechanism? Neural Netw. 2013 Mar 27;47:81–7. PubMed page

Jirenhed DA, Hesslow G. (2011). Time Course of Classically Conditioned Purkinje Cell Response is Determined by Initial Part of Conditioned Stimulus. J Neurosci. 2011 Jun 22;31(25):9070-4. PubMed page

Jirenhed DA, Hesslow G. (2011). Learning Stimulus Intervals - Adaptive Timing of Conditioned Purkinje Cell Responses. Cerebellum. 10(3):525-535. PubMed page

Svensson P, Jirenhed DA, Bengtsson F, Hesslow G. (2010). Effect of Conditioned Stimulus Parameters on Timing of Conditioned Purkinje Cell Responses. J Neurophysiology. 103 (3): 1329-1336. PubMed page

Rasmussen A, Jirenhed DA, Hesslow G. (2008). Simple and Complex Spike Firing Patterns in Purkinje Cells During Classical Conditioning. Cerebellum. 7(4):563-6. PubMed page

Bengtsson F, Jirenhed DA, Svensson P, Hesslow G. (2007). Extinction of conditioned blink responses by cerebello-olivary pathway stimulation. Neuroreport. 17;18(14):1479-82. PubMed page

Jirenhed DA, Bengtsson F, Hesslow G. (2007). Acquisition, extinction, and reacquisition of a cerebellar cortical memory trace. J Neurosci. 7;27(10):2493-502. PubMed page

Hesslow G, Jirenhed DA. (2007). The inner world of a simple robot. Journal of Consciousness Studies 14 (7):85-96. LINK

Hesslow G, Jirenhed DA. (2007). Must Machines be Zombies? Internal Simulation as a Mechanism for Machine Consciousness. AAAI Symposium, Washington DC, 8-11 November 2007. pp. 1-6. 

Ziemke T, Jirenhed, DA, Hesslow, G. (2005). Internal simulation of perception: a minimal neuro-robotic model. Neurocoputing. 68:85-104. LINK

Jirenhed DA, Hesslow G, Ziemke T. (2001). Exploring Internal Simulation of Perception in Mobile Robots. I 2001 Fourth European Workshop on Advanced Mobile Robots (Eurobot `01), Proceedings. Lund University Cognitive Studies, vol. 86, pp. 107-113.