Anyone registered for SFN, check out my poster (P483.09) on the circuits that assign borders to visual objects. Evidence for a columnar organization with a special role for deep layer neurons and an unexpected relation with border orientation! #SfN21 John Reynolds Salk Institute

Glad to share our latest work. We find that the assignment of borders to visual objects is organized in columns in the brain's cortex in which it occurs first in deep layers, suggestive of a central role for feedback. Salk Institute John Reynolds doi.org/10.7554/eLife.… eLife - the journal

Salk Prof John Reynolds and Tom Franken have made headway into understanding how the brain decides which side of a visual border is a foreground object and which is background. eLife - the journal NEI salk.edu/news-release/w…

Classic "Rubin's vase" #optical illusion: do you see a vase or 2 faces? #NEIfunded research by Tom Franken and John Reynolds (Salk Institute): helps understand how the brain decides which side of visual border is foreground vs. background. @elife paper: elifesciences.org/articles/72573

Consider joining our last-day-of-SFN Symposium at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) on Novelty! Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida, Peter Dayan, Larry Abbott, and I will discuss novelty detection, seeking, & avoidance. I know these days many people are deciding whether to go! Come join us! sfn.org/meetings/neuro…

Excited to continue my scientific journey at the Washington University in St. Louis! @WUSTLneurosci Opening this September, our lab will study how brain circuits organize incoming sensory information into meaningful collections of objects and background. sites.wustl.edu/frankenlab/

So many amazing restaurants, so little time! What's your favorite?

The Yao lab (2 months old now!) is recruiting at all levels! We study auditory decision-making and links between sensory deficits with cognitive dysfunction. I’ll be presenting at APAN Friday and #SfN22 on Saturday (Poster 051.25 M3) 1-5pm. Come swing by and say hi!

How does the brain keep track of objects in the world when environments change or we move our eyes? Come see our presentation #SfN2022 to learn about our new data on persistent object signals in primate visual cortex (513.05, Tue Nov 15, 2:00 PM, SDCC 5)!

If you're interested in this research, my new lab at @WUSTLneurosci is hiring #postdocs and #gradstudents! Feel free to reach out if you would like to join our growing team. sites.wustl.edu/frankenlab/

Ralf Wessel, Keith Hengen, and Likai Chen are advancing insights into the links between artificial and biological intelligence. Check out their team: transdisciplinaryfutures.wustl.edu/artificial-int… @WUSTLArtSci WashU Office of Neuroscience Research Test Account

⚡️ We are recruiting electrophysiologists! ⚡️ Multiple positions available for postdocs, staff scientists or senior scientists to join the labs of Yao Chen, Tom Franken, & Brain Development and Disorders Lab. Please share! neuroscience.wustl.edu/items/electrop… #postdocposition #neurotwitter #phdlife

Officially started my first week @WUSTLneurosci⁩. Lab website is up and we will hire at all levels very soon! Plz spread the word and stay tuned😄#newPI sites.wustl.edu/huanglab/

We @WUSTLneurosci invite senior graduate students in all neuroscience fields to apply as INSPIRE speakers bit.ly/3xvyluG. Present in our INSPIRE symposium, meet with faculty 1 on 1, and interact with the excellent community WashU Office of Neuroscience Research. Apply by November 22nd 2023.

👇🎉 Delighted to finally share this👇 nature.com/articles/s4159… "Contextual guidance": what if we started thinking of astrocytes as contextual gates whose core function is to shape neural circuitry in a state-dependent and adaptive fashion?

This new paper spearheaded by Matt Self shows the link between border-ownership tuning in area V4 of the visual cortex and figure-ground signals in area V1, by an analysis of the pattern of noise correlations between neurons in these two cortical areas. nature.com/articles/s4146…