Hua Tang

You can also find information about my previous work here: scholar.google.com/citations?hl.... (3/3)

underlying high-level cognition in both macaques and humans.
I am currently seeking to recruit highly motivated postdocs in the fields of systems and computational neuroscience.
If you are interested, please reach out to me at hua.tang@outlook.com. (2/3)

I am excited to announce that I will be joining the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning at Beijing Normal University as a professor starting next month. In the Tang lab, we will employ large-scale recordings and optogenetics to investigate the neural circuit mechanisms (1/3)

A tabby cat with green eyes is being humorously posed as a “burger.” A bun is placed on top of its head with a piece of lettuce underneath, and a hand is holding the bottom half of the bun under its chin. The cat has an unamused expression, and the background is a plain light gray wall

one snack to go

Congrats, Feiyang!

If we don't feel stupid, it means we are not trying hard. 🥹

Looking for reviewers before Christmas

#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?

Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!

Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9

Dynamic tuning of neural stability for cognitive control | PNAS The brain is thought to execute cognitive control by actively maintaining and flexibly updating patterns of neural activity that represent goals an...

Dynamic tuning of neural stability for cognitive control
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
#neuroscience

‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

Another huge influx of colleagues to BlueSky this week, so let me attach the fully updated Neurophysiology starter pack for anyone interested.

go.bsky.app/9FY1ReG

我将于北京时间明天早上10点，在“脑人言”的线上会议介绍这项工作。欢迎感兴趣的朋友来一起交流～
I will present this paper to the Chinese community tomorrow morning. Please join us if you speak Chinese.

Thank you, Feiyang!😄

The most exciting part comes from the network dynamics analysis, which used simultaneously recorded ensembles from four areas. We found that information about token updating flows from the OFC to VS through MDt. I hope you enjoy reading it.
We'd be grateful for your feedback! 😄

We found each area uniquely contributed to encoding token gains and losses. Specifically, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and mediodorsal thalamus (MDt) encoded gains and losses linearly, the ventral striatum (VS) encoded gains, and the amygdala (AMY) encoded the salience of values.

In this study, monkeys learned to select options that would allow them to gain tokens and avoid options that would cause them to lose tokens.

Ventral frontostriatal circuitry mediates the computation of reinforcement from symbolic gains and losses Tang et al. show that OFC plays a more important role in learning from symbolic reinforcers than subcortical structures. OFC computes reinforcement signals and sends the information to the VS through ...

Our paper is published in the latest issue of NEURON. We examined the neural mechanisms involved in learning from the gains and losses of symbolic reinforcers in the ventral frontostriatal circuitry. 🧠
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...