Why does it take 10,000 trials to train a mouse on a trivial 2AFC task? When the same animal will learn a complex sequence of decisions in just 10 trials? I wrote a review with some speculations: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. Also outside the paywall: arxiv.org/abs/2205.02075.

(1/11) Excited to share our minireview with Kishore Kuchibhotla! Is learning slow or sudden? doi.org/10.1016/j.ibne…

‘Bridging the big (data) gap: levels of control in small- and large-scale cognitive neuroscience research’ cell.com/trends/neurosc… Trends in Neurosciences ‘Opinion’ by @RoniTibon @Linda_Geerligs & Karen Campbell @karampbell

Happy birthday to our esteemed neuroscientist Brenda Milner! 🎁She is celebrating 104 years old today. To learn more about her distinguished life and career, visit: mcgill.ca/neuro/about/br…

Tomorrow we drop our latest episode to kick off the new academic year! We speak to environmental activist Dante Swinton about air #pollution and trash incinerators in Baltimore, while Lieber Institute Dr. Hao Yang Tan talks about the impact of pollution on our #mentalhealth.

After building on years of work from MILA, DeepMind, ourselves, and others, our AIs are now expert-human-level in no-press Diplomacy and Hanabi! Unlike Go and Dota, Diplomacy/Hanabi involve *cooperation*, which breaks naive RL. arxiv.org/abs/2210.05492 arxiv.org/abs/2210.05125 🧵👇

I am looking for a research technician for my lab starting March 2023!

“It’s game time! Treating injuries in elite athletes” is out now. Ahead of #SuperBowlLVII , we spoke to experienced Johns Hopkins Orthopaedics orthopedic surgeon and HOPKINS ATHLETICS head team physician Dr. Andrew Cosgarea on treating sports injuries in star athletes. anchor.fm/scimore

What is the nature of sensory prediction error signals in neocortex and the circuit-mechanisms underlying them? Genuinely thrilled to see this epic effort from Shohei Furutachi in my and Tom Mrsic-Flogel's lab out on bioRxiv: biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Love the new owners already

There's a bug in Kilosort 🚨 The International Brain Laboratory found spike holes: every 2s no spikes are detected for 7 ms. Although it's a small fraction of data (0.3%), it's good to be aware of this issue. Also consider rerunning spike sorting after it's been resolved. github.com/MouseLand/Kilo…

My four Nicod lectures (from December 2023) are now online here: Lecture I: Modularity of Mind and Brain and the Case of the FFA savoirs.ens.fr/expose.php?id=… Lecture II: What Other Mental Functions get Their Own Private Patch of Real Estate in the Brain ? savoirs.ens.fr/expose.php?id=… ...

1/3 Colleagues & I at International Brain Laboratory repeated a behav/ephys experiment 121 times in 10 labs to test reproducibility. Vulnerabilities emerged. Probe targeting was sometimes off (despite standardized instruments) & common single-neuron analyses were variable. thetransmitter.org/electrophysiol…

So excited for the #CCN2024 GAC on Tuesday! Is V1 a Cognitive Map? Link to proposal: sites.google.com/ccneuro.org/ga… 🧵of talks below!

Scott Imbrie, who has two implants in the motor regions of his cerebral cortex, gives a tribute to Sliman Bensmaia at #SimCo24.

Preprint is finally out! Mapping whole brain oligo-myelin patterns across individual mice, sex, strain, aging, and injury (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…) Check out some cool videos as well! vimeo.com/1003497448?ts=… And play around with the beautiful raw data! tinyurl.com/5n87z2xs

Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities. Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do? wesa.fm/health-science…

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵

Excited to share our new preprint from my graduate work, a collaboration between the Solange Brown and Sriram S and others in the Kolodkin lab! Our study investigated how patterned excitatory connectivity is generated in the development of the cerebral cortex (1/6)

an absolute shame. @harvard cutting PhD admissions "The Organismic and Evolutionary Biology department will shrink its class size by roughly 75 percent to three new Ph.D. students [...] Molecular and Cellular Biology will reduce its figure to four new students, and Chemistry and