[1] Redish graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1991, having completed a double major in Computer Science and Writing Seminars.
He then earned a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was part of the first class of the nascent Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition.
[3] His first published papers were computational models of the head direction system in the rodent (see [4][5]) which have since been confirmed in both mammals (see [6]) and drosophila (see [7]).
Redish then shifted his focus to computational models of rodent navigation and the role of the hippocampus, culminating in a large-scale synthesis which unified the conflicting perspectives on spatial navigation and episodic memory in hippocampus into a single computational model (see [8]).
Much of Redish's more recent work has addressed how the computational processes underlying multiple decision-making systems impact fields beyond neuroscience, including economics (see [9][10]).