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A #newstudy from ChampalimaudResearch published in Nature Neuroscience today shows that the #brain uses #datacompression for #decisionmaking. Paper👉go.nature.com/3tkPkAG Digest👉bit.ly/3tidifX Congrats Asma Motiwala, @sofialssoares, Bassam_Atallah, Joseph Paton & Christian Machens 👏

From amazing, twitterless Asma Motiwala in Nature Neuroscience: She compared RL agents to mouse behavior and dopamine c/o @sofialssoares Bassam_Atallah. Upshot: Brains compress info not needed for rewards. w/ CKMachens rdcu.be/cO4re #efficientcoding #ChampalimaudNeuro

Liked Naoshige Uchida 's talk at RLDM? Check out the incredible Margarida Sousa's poster 2.161 today: Complementary findings/theory + a few extra twists! DA neurons adaptively encode reward distributions along multiple dimensions... w/ BCruz PBujalski Dan McNamee Kenway Louie

Happy to be a part of this wonderful collaborative work that came out in nature today! We show that parallel control shared across multiple Reinforcement Learning agents might be a good candidate for a mechanistic explanation of behavioral and neural data in the striatum!

This study by Bruno Cruz w/ Gonçalo Guiomar is an 🧅. MANY LAYERS! informs debate re: function of direct/indirect basal ganglia circuits, parallel arch of BG, impulsivity, + you contain multitudes: control via a multi-agent-like system in a single brain. rdcu.be/cQ6Tb

Congrats guys! Three papers from ChampalimaudResearch are out on the same day, tackling parallel, serial, and feedback mechanisms underlying behavioral control and how internal states (in different senses of the word) control outward behavior. We should build a model #animat

Beautiful cover by Gil in Trends in Cognitive Sciences of our paper with Social Brain Lab and Ewelina Knapska "Emotional contagion and prosocial behavior in rodents". Check out the paper here: cell.com/trends/cogniti… Full issue here: cell.com/cognitive-scie… ChampalimaudResearch

Congrats to Fanny Cazettes ChampalimaudF for being awarded a Transition to Independence Fellowship by @SCglobalbrain for her project, "#Neuralcomputations and dynamics of #flexiblebehavior"! 🥳👏🧠 👉 simonsfoundation.org/people/fanny-c… #neuroscience

Have fun at the Hypothalamus Gordon Research Conference 2024 @nico_neurophys Attendees make sure you check out his poster! 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Do you have dendritic spine image stacks that you want to analyze? Maybe we can help. doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

Out now, a new pre-print where we collaborated with the Neurogenetics of Locomotion Lab to study the motor responses to mechanosensory stimulation. Alexandra Medeiros Anna Hobbiss NOVA Medical School ChampalimaudResearch biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

RAISE – a project by Native Scientists ChampalimaudResearch iMM & funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – aims to reach members of society that feel detached from #science. First up: a special EU #Researchers' Night ChampalimaudF on Sep 30! Submit your proposals here! 👉 bit.ly/3oy1iUw

Recently out, a cover i did for Moita Lab, Social Brain Lab et. al on Trends in Cognitive Sciences. They wrote a review on how rodents can feel others' struggles and fears and show pro social and empathic behaviors. 1/ Article here cell.com/trends/cogniti…

Dario Farina and I are looking for PhD students + Postdocs to work on the neural control of motoneurons at Imperial College London. Projects will span a combination of basic neuroscience, motor control and "Muscle-Computer Interfaces" Come find me at #NCMDub22 NCM society if you're curious

🚨First preprint from the lab!! All credit goes to Francesca Greenstreet & Hernando Martinez who co-led this project. tinyurl.com/47w98a6b We show that movement-related striatal dopamine signals encode an action prediction error, a value free teaching signal. 🧵👇 1/25

Happy to share this new bioRxiv on the cognitive and computational determinants of choice-seeking, led by @JeromeMunuera, with M. Ribes Agost, D. Bendetowicz, A. Kerebel, co-supervised by Brian Lau Brian Lau and myself. [thread] biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv 1/9

"Metamersion: Latent Spaces" arrives ChampalimaudF Warehouse - Doca Pesca F tomorrow!🥳 Get ready for an #immersiveexperience where #Science, #Technology, #DigitalTherapeutics & #Art collide💥 Check the link for +info! 👉bit.ly/3B1SixS

✨Exciting news! Our research on parallel decision computations is just out in Nature Neuroscience ! nature.com/articles/s4159… With it, here goes my first attempt at a #tweetprint ! 🧵

Coolest (hottest?) work I’ve been part of. 🔥/❄️ striatum speeds/slows neural dynamics, causes over/under-estimation of time… both 🔥/❄️ reduce baseline neural activity, slow movement. tiago monteiro , Filipe Rodrigues , and M. Pexirra. Meaning? Read: rdcu.be/dgL4d

In this short News & Views piece, david robbe and I covered the recent Joseph Paton's lab paper by tiago monteiro et al where they manipulate the speed of striatal dynamics with temperature. nature.com/articles/s4159…