Our congratulations go to Unit D.Phil. student James Whittington for successfully defending his doctoral thesis, entitled “A Bayesian account of learning and generalising representations in the brain”, in his viva voce examination held on 27th March 2020.

James’s viva examiners were Professor Karl Friston (University College London) and Dr Andrew Saxe (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford). Because of the recent cessation of on-site and in-person meetings, the viva took place remotely via digital conferencing.

James was co-supervised by Professor Tim Behrens and Professor Rafal Bogacz.