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It is a such a great feeling to see past Ph.D. students succeed after leaving my lab! Very happy to share the new paper from Jeff Johnston working with Stefano Fusi at Columbia, showing how abstract encoding emerges in RNNs with training. rdcu.be/c6fEk

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Can't believe Sliman Bensmaia is gone. One of my very closest friends, my FuzZz band mate, songwriting partner, and UChicago neuroscience colleague. Like the brother I never had. You had a such a great run, but you had so much left to do. I'll keep playing your songs.

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Very happy and proud to share the latest theory publication from recent FreedmanLab Ph.D. graduate Jeff Johnston--Redundant representations are required to disambiguate simultaneously presented complex stimuli. Congrats Jeff! doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Now that we University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute just hired 2 faculty in Computational Neuroscience we are addicted to it. We will be hiring 2 more faculty this round in Comp Neuro - one in the Department of Neurobiology and one in the Department of Physics. Please apply! apply.interfolio.com/133134

I am glad to co-direct the Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Program at UChicago. Know a postdoc candidate interested in using AI to advance their research in the sciences, including neuroscience? They should apply! Deadline is Nov 1. #UChicago #AI #Neuro rb.gy/hwxbb

David Freedman with his first paper. You never forget your first. Freedman, D.J., Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T., and Miller, E.K. (2001) Categorical representation of visual stimuli in the primate prefrontal cortex. Science, 291:312-316. doi.org/10.1126/scienc… #neuroscience

Happy to share that as of this Fall I am taking on the role of Chair of the Department of Neurobiology at The University of Chicago. I'm excited for this new chapter and for the future of Neuroscience at UChicago! #UChicago tinyurl.com/mtvcy3j4

We're hiring faculty! The Department of Neurobiology at UChicago is searching for tenure-track faculty. Researchers in cellular, molecular, developmental and synaptic neuroscience are especially encouraged to apply.  Visit: apply.interfolio.com/153397. EOE/Vet/Disability.

New FreedmanLab paper shows that the primate superior colliculus is strongly and causally engaged in abstract cognition. shorturl.at/7qB5r #Neuroscience #UChicago University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute

The superior colliculus--more important for cognition than what the textbooks would have you believe. biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/brain-sup… University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute

Lizard Brain

I told you that faces would melt. Dave Freedman rips it up with Lizard Brain #sfn2024 #pavlovsdoz

Thrilled to share FreedmanLab PhD student Matthew Rosen's pnas study showing how the same circuits that control gaze also meditate abstract cognition--leading to incidental gaze shifts like "poker tells". #uchicago #pnas Check it out: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

FreedmanLab PhD student Matt Rosen’s @PNAS paper is out! We show how oculomotor brain circuits are recruited by cognitive behaviors--and produce small gaze shifts like "poker tells" in the process. Paper here: tinyurl.com/yw48y5tw #Neuroscience #PNAS University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute