FreedmanLab results alert! Turns out area MST is much more cognitive than its traditionally recognized role in visual motion processing. We find that it also encodes the abstract meaning of stimuli during a learned visual motion categorization task. tinyurl.com/2p8rwpcm

📢📢Hoy abren las inscripciones para el “1er Encuentro de Neurocientíficos Colombianos en el Exterior”, el cual se realizará durante #SfN23 gracias al apoyo de COLNE - Colegio Colombiano de Neurociencias 🧠🇨🇴 y Embassy of Colombia in the United States. Nos vemos en D.C y no olviden dar🔁 👇👇 RSVP: bit.ly/neuro-co-2023

Excited to share that I finally started my dream job: I am now officially Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh, & started a lab as principal investigator to study how neurons generate and transform internal mental representations.

Our new Nature Neuroscience article is featured in MIT News today: MIT News story: news.mit.edu/2024/study-rev… Video: youtube.com/watch?v=KIygei…

A motif of local field potentials that maps onto the anatomical cortical layers across cortical areas, and may represent a ubiquitous layer- and frequency-based mechanism Diego Mendoza-Halliday Alex James Major Robert DeSimone Earl K. Miller André M. Bastos nature.com/articles/s4159…

New paper out in Neuron! Using electrophysiology and optogenetics, we show that the neuronal substrates of feature attention & working memory are dissociable in the primate brain. Work with Bob Desimone & Haoran Xu. doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

News story about our new study published in Neuron: mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/01/17/cal…

Exciting announcement: the Mendoza-Halliday Lab website (and logo) is finally out! Check it out at mendoza-halliday-lab.com

Our Lab is hiring! 1 POSTDOC & 2 RESEARCH TECHNICIAN positions available. We use high-count multi-area neuronal recordings & optogenetics to investigate how neurons generate & manipulate mental representations. Check the JOIN US section @ mendoza-halliday-lab.com. Spread the word!

Insightful Preview article by John Duncan about our recent attention and working memory study published in Neuron: cell.com/neuron/pdf/S08…

i plan to move to Korea later this year, & will soon hire at all levels (students, postdocs, staff scientists, junior PIs) - docs.google.com/document/d/1Vw… my lab in Japan will run till at least 2025. RIKEN has been nothing but the dream job. but hopefully the above explains it. 1/2

Proud of the community here at the University of Pittsburgh! Protesting peacefully against the US-supported Israeli government’s ongoing massacre in Gaza.

Awesome to be visiting Diego Mendoza-Halliday and seeing his cool new lab. One interesting thought is to test whether primary motor cortex also has spectrolaminar motif. OmarGharbawie Lab can test this! Different laminar cortical circuit? A break to the gamma/beta motif? We shall see!

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Chatting about attention, working memory, brain oscillations, cortical layers and other fun stuff at an interview I was invited to by Mark Mattson for the Brain Ponderings Podcast: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ac-ilg…