Raphael Kaplan

I am a Principal Investigator at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón de la Plana, Spain.

I hold a BA in Neuroscience from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Subsequently, I was the first PhD student in the NIH Graduate Partnership Program in Neuroscience with University College London (UCL). Under the guidance of Neil Burgess at UCL, I used virtual spatial navigation paradigms to test how hippocampal oscillatory and novelty processing findings in rodents extend to humans. Upon completing my PhD, I received a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship awarded by the Wellcome Trust. Collaborating with Karl Friston at UCL and Gustavo Deco at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, I developed my research program using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging approaches to study whether map-like learning mechanisms are a widespread phenomenon in the brain beyond spatial cognition. From 2018-2020, I was an Associate Professor (Scandinavian equivalent of an Assistant Professor) at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, where I started the Decision and Memory Group. I was also a visiting Lecturer in the Princeton University Department of Psychology from 2020 to 2021. In fall 2021, I will be joining the Department of Psychobiology, Basic and Clinical Psychology at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón de la Plana, Spain.

Please see Raphael Kaplan's Google Scholar page for copies of some of our publications

• I Polti#, M Nau#, R Kaplan, V Van Wassenhove, CF Doeller (Under Review) Hippocampus and striatum encode distinct task regularities that guide human timing behavior. bioRxiv, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.03.454928v1

• D Kuhrt#, N St. John#, JS Bellmund*, R Kaplan*, CF Doeller* (2021) An immersive first-person navigation task for abstract knowledge acquisition. Scientific Reports, 11(1):5612.

#=equal contribution *=jointly supervised work.

• R Kaplan, A Tauste Campo, D Bush, J King, A Principe, R Koster, M Ley-Nacher, R Rocamora, KJ Friston (2020) Human hippocampal theta oscillations reflect sequential dependencies during spatial planning. Cognitive Neuroscience, 11(3):122-31.

• RA Adams#, D Bush#, F Zhen#, SS Meyer, R Kaplan, S Orfanos, TR Marques, O Howes, N Burgess (2020) Impaired theta phase coupling underlies frontotemporal dysconnectivity in schizophrenia. Brain, 143(4):1261-77.

• R Kaplan & KJ Friston (2019) Entorhinal transformations in abstract frames of reference. PLoS Biology, 17(5): e3000230.

• R Kaplan & KJ Friston (2018) Planning and navigation as active inference. Biological Cybernetics, 112:323-342

• R Kaplan, J King, R Koster, WD Penny, N Burgess, & KJ Friston (2017) The neural representation of prospective choice during spatial planning and decisions. PLoS Biology, 15:e1002588.

• R Kaplan#, NW Schuck#, CF Doeller (2017) The role of mental maps in decision-making. Trends Neurosci, 40:256-259

• R Kaplan#, D Bush#, J Bisby, AJ Horner, SS Meyer, & N Burgess (2017) Medial prefrontal-medial temporal theta phase coupling in dynamic spatial imagery. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 29(3):507-519.

• R Kaplan, MH Adhikari, R Hindriks, D Mantini, Y Murayama, NK Logothetis, & G Deco (2016) Hippocampal sharp-wave ripples influence selective activation of the default mode network. Current Biology, 26(5):686-91.

• Preview article by M Walker & E Robertson (2016) Current Biology 26(6):239-41

• R Kaplan (2014) Endogenous fMRI default mode network fluctuations both positively and negatively correlate with individual transfer of learning. Front Syst Neurosci, 8:229.

• R Kaplan, AJ Horner, PA Bandettini, CF Doeller, & N Burgess (2014) Human hippocampal processing of environmental novelty during spatial navigation. Hippocampus, 24(7):740-50.

• R Kaplan#, DR Bush#, M Bonnefond, PA Bandettini, GR Barnes, CF Doeller, & N Burgess (2014) Medial prefrontal theta phase coordination during spatial memory retrieval. Hippocampus, 24(6):656-65.

• R Kaplan, CF Doeller, GR Barnes, V Litvak, E Duzel, PA Bandettini, & N Burgess (2012) Movement-related theta rhythm in humans: coordinating self-directed hippocampal learning. PLoS Biology, 10(2):e1001267

• BR Cornwell, SC Muller, R Kaplan, C Grillon, & M Ernst (2012) Anxiety, a benefit and a detriment to cognition: Behavioral and magnetoencephalographic evidence from a mixed-saccade task. Brain & Cognition, 78(3):257-67

• CF Doeller & R Kaplan (2011) Parahippocampal Cortex: translating vision into space. Current Biology, 21:589-91

• BR Cornwell, RP Alvarez, S Lissek, R Kaplan, M Ernst, & C Grillon (2011) Anxiety overrides the blocking effects of high perceptual load on amygdala reactivity to threat-related distractors. Neuropsychologia, 5:1363-8.

• RP Alvarez, G Chen, J Bodurka, R Kaplan, & C Grillon (2011) Phasic and sustained fear in humans elicits distinct patterns of brain activity. NeuroImage, 55: 389-400.