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I'm really excited about working w/ this team to study internal states and decision-making! I've got an awesome crew here, Felicia Davatolhagh & Maxwell D. Melin, that will focus on learning as a change in internal state.

So the behavior rigs work but my cable management skills could use some development...

Excited to register for my first Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference in three years! I’ll be co-chairing (with twitterless Thomas Luo) a nanosymposium on the theme of “Neural Mechanisms of Decision making.” The organizing theme is new approaches using population-based techniques.

Really enjoyed working on this project with Jiannis Taxidis and Blake Madruga and I'm very thankful for everything I learned rotating with Peyman Golshani and his lab.

There's been a growing appreciation within the decision-making field for how uninstructed movements influence neural activity. It turns out these uninstructed movements are also meaningful markers of behavioral engagement. Check out the details in our new preprint!

great to see our work mentioned here!

Excited to share my PhD work in Peyman Golshani 's lab designing and building low-cost miniature 2P microscopes with everyone! They cost < $10k USD (even at low production runs), are fitted with 2 on-board SiPM detectors, and are completely open-source! 1/5 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We love natural behavior! Our new review highlights recent work from Cris Niell, BBO lab | small things on small heads & others. Is natural behavioral all we need to understand brains? We say no & hypothesize why training critters can be hard. Pls post your training thoughts below. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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New preprint alert! (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) How does neural activity change when animals switch between engagement/disengagement? What may be the behavioral source of the changes? Are there any behavioral indicators of engagement other than the often-reported task performance

Come by Z25 on Monday morning to check out our novel method of chronic Neuropixels implantation, and to talk about the evolution of corticostriatal circuits as mice learn a perceptual decision making task!

Congrats Anne Churchland on a well deserved award. Very proud to be your mentee!

Thrilled to share our latest work exploring new avenues for combining #Neuropixels with #Optogenetics! Congratulations to co-first author Anna Lakunina, the Neuropixels Opto Consortium and collaborators! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our work is officially online now! 🥳🥳Maxwell D. Melin Gabriel Rojas-Bowe Anne Churchland Key points: 1st, we found that, consistent with previous studies, consecutive trials within behavioral sessions of a decision-making task can be divided into engaged and disengaged states. (1/8)

My final postdoc paper from the Golshani lab is finally out! How does inhibition regulate memory-encoding pyramidal sequences? We used kHz-rate voltage imaging of mouse CA1 PV & SST cells during a working memory task with odors. nature.com/articles/s4159…