Excited to share this new work from Nicholas Audette! We found a prominent class of auditory cortex cells that signal prediction errors when mice hear something unexpected. 1/6

The latest paper of Rebecca Jordan and the accompanying peer reviews were just published, and I cannot overstate how pleasant, productive, and efficient the new eLife - the journal publishing model is. elifesciences.org/reviewed-prepr…

Cool! Our preprint was the very first reviewed under eLife's new model😃 And I think it's a great model. Hopeful about the future of peer review!

Looking for a postdoc to work with us in beautiful Edinburgh to uncover the computational role of locus coeruleus in predictive learning! Using in vivo recordings, optogenetics, and virtual reality. If you know anyone who may be interested, pass it on! jobs.ac.uk/job/CYP064/pos…

We have an opening for a PhD student! Using multiple optical and electrophysiology methods to compare catecholamine systems' roles in learning. Please share! (deadline 5th June) findaphd.com/phds/project/c…

Our lab has multiple positions available: predictionplasticitylab.com/join

Cholinergic input to mouse visual cortex primarily signals a movement state signal, with virtually no activation in response to visual stimuli or prediction errors. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Basal forebrain input to V1 conveys a locomotion state signal, and amplifies neuronal responses in a layer specific way. Very nice work from Baba Yogesh and Georg Keller biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Check out the new work from our lab ⬇️ Congratulations to all the authors 🎉

Audiomotor mismatch responses in the auditory cortex closely resemble visuomotor mismatches observed in the visual cortex and exhibit potential for cross-modal potentiation. Explore our latest work with Georg Keller to learn more. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

We convert our setup monitors to synchronize them to the microscopes (2p and WF) they are used with (to reduce contamination light). Peter Buchmann at FMI science has made a PCB boards that can be used to convert Dell U2722D monitors.

Preprint alert! 🚨 Our latest study from the Brain&Sound lab (Tania Barkat) on Curriculum Learning(CL) is now live. We investigated how sequential acquisition of increasingly complex tasks (Easy → Difficult) enhances learning efficiency. 🐁 🧠 1/2

We are looking for postdocs funded by an ERC starting grant to investigate the mechanisms of cortical predictive learning! Opportunities to use in vivo whole cell recordings, 2-photon imaging VR for mice, and more. Please reach out if you are interested! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Join us for the Sensation and Action conference 2025 – applications are now open: lakeconferences.org

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out our paper on multimodal mismatch responses, which is now out in eLife. Thank you to the eLife - the journal editorial team and reviewers for a pleasant and constructive revision process. elifesciences.org/articles/95398

A few words on our latest paper and where we're heading next ⬇️

Neuroscientist @magdalenasolyga shares how eLife helped her avoid reviewer overreach, accelerate publication, and reach the right audience, without compromising on rigour. Hear from authors like her: elifesciences.org/inside-elife/0…

Very grateful to the Ruth Chiquet Prize committee for recognizing our efforts and to the FMI community for their invaluable support in this project.

In this first-person account, FMI’s senior communications manager describes taking part in an early human trial that adapts previous experiments in mice to explore how the human brain responds when visual and auditory information suddenly fall out of sync. fmi.ch/news-events/ar…