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The basal ganglia output is often framed as a motor gate: corticostriatal circuits select an action, then GPi/SNr-thalamus helps release it. In humans, we find this same pathway carries cognitive variables embedded in movement signals—and even produces learning-relevant signals after feedback. 1/10
Wow are they fortunate to have Daphna Shohamy at the helm - selecting her was a wise move (and I do hope they appreciate her for it).
Looking for your next Director of a Fancy Thing? Pick a Daphna.
www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2023/04...
Congrats! Fascinating work
With this one in print, I think I finally earned that PhD... 😅
Presented for the first time at the cosyne when the world ended (March 2020). I'll bring over a summary thread from twitter when it was still twitter...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
seems like they are both very busy these days. Huh !
I've read it. It doesn't explain why he flew to Epstein's ranch in Santa Fe, where the age of consent is 16. And to be clear, schmoozing with and rehabilitating the image of a pedophile sex trafficker is also bad, even if you think he might benefit your career
@sebastianseung.bsky.social Did you follow through on your plan to visit Epstein island?
Thanks Nicole. You're consistently the best
Hey @eboyden3.bsky.social care to explain?
From an imessage conversation, newer first: Unknown: OK Epstein?: both are welcome to our secret society , they will join join joi ito ed boyden and caleb . (mit agro)
for fuck's sake
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
One of the heartbreaking files to me was EFTA00258604 because the girl obviously has talent & you can tell she spent a lot of time making this beautiful medieval style letter bc she thinks this is the man helping her reach her dreams with her art, but we know he's preying on her & will devour her. 😞
I swear to god taking ethics courses with premed students was an all-time harrowing experience
It would be great if neuroscientists could stop frothing at the mouth over the data they hope to someday get from non-medically-necessary neuralink recordings in humans. Get the data from your own brain if the risk is so low
We are very excited to announce that our new preprint with Saleh Esteki, @stefanofusi.bsky.social, and @roozbehkiani.bsky.social is now available on biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... We investigated how reward context is learned, represented, and updated to bias decisions. Thread 🧵👇! 1/13
Congratulations! 🎊
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
I know this is old news but wow this was an incredible book
My latest feature for @sciam.bsky.social explores the research connecting problems with interoception to a wide variety of mental illnesses, including anxiety disorders, eating disorders, & PTSD. This work is ultimately circling in on a central message: the body & mind are inextricably intertwined.
It's always exciting when something ~straightforward (like a model of deciding bar orientation) is extended to account for something more mysterious (like a model of deciding whether to do something risky -> important for psychopathology). That's what @silvialogu.bsky.social & team do here.
In my case, this painstaking labor in the process through which the science gets done. Science isn't measuring stuff in a lab. It's thinking deeply, extracting the heart of idea from the soup of thoughts running through my mind, molding it, and finding a way to communicate that idea to others.
I don't know what emotion uber thinks an end of the year wrapped will evoke but for me it's horror and shame
New study challenges the idea of a unified decision network: Neuropixel recordings in primate OFC showed robust encoding during value-based choices but near-silence during perceptual decisions, even when rewards are at stake. #RewardSignals #neuroskyence www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026.
2026.ccneuro.org
it's so wild to me that albini made this in 1982 when the most popular song was eye of the tiger www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXnM...
Thank you for the great summary, @thetransmitter.bsky.social, and the shout-outs from scientists we admire. There is so much we don’t know about how sex hormones modulate behavior and we’ll keep exploring!
“Our findings challenge the conventional focus on low-dimensional coding subspaces as a sufficient framework for understanding neural computations, demonstrating that dimensions previously considered task-irrelevant and accounting for little variance can have a critical role in driving behavior.”
Something really special is happening in Detroit x.com/trademarktaz...
Who wore it better? Our new paper shows that rat OFC supports Bayesian inference of hidden states! With neural correlates of inferred state transitions at the level of single neurons and population-level latent factors. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
