Gentle reminder that cognition is dynamical and no one ever thought otherwise. One of the biggest blunders in the history of the mind sciences is the claim that cognition is dynamical as opposed to computational, and therefore ... 1/

Due to a last-minute withdrawal, we have a Ph.D. position available "immediately" in our team to study the role of dorsal striatum circuits in the exploration/exploitation tradeoff, in a cool naturalistic whisker-guided foraging task. 🙏 RT!

Cell assemblies are drawing increasing attention in Neuroscience. But one could argue that they are just an epiphenomenon. Is cell assemblies’ activity relevant for the brain? The short answer is yes. The long answer is in a preprint just online on bioRxiv. 🧵👇 1/10

𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 should go down to the level of ~chemistry~, argues William Bechtel in this provocative piece 😯 frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Thrilled to share our work on DBS for #Alzheimer’s Disease – likely the most important work in my career, so far. Spearheaded by the one and only Ana Sofia Rios w/ lots of collaborators, we sought out to find the optimal DBS stim site & network in AD medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… A 🧵

The Institute of Functional Genomics (IGF, igf.cnrs.fr), located in Montpellier, France, is seeking 2 new emerging/junior teams Further info: igf.cnrs.fr/index.php/en/j…

Great opportunity to work with Amaury on affective touch and its central representation!!👇

#tweetprint: How does motivation affect performance and sensory processing during goal-directed behavior? Check out our new Neuron paper with Giulio Matteucci and Maëlle Guyoton, in collaboration with Carl Petersen where we address this issue cell.com/neuron/fulltex… 🧵👇(1/5)

𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 by Khona and Fiete. This looks amazing! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Time for a poll 🔍 I'm curious how people split their research time in their initial say 5 years as a new PI between hands-on research, writing grants, management... 🧐 Please RT and respond if you're a #newPI or want to share how you managed back then 🙏

🚨 BIG DATA RELEASE 🚨 We are beyond excited to announce the release of our Brain Wide Map of neural activity during decision making! It consists of 547 Neuropixel recordings of 32784 neurons across 194 regions of the mouse brain 🐭🧠 (1/7)

Aligning latent representations of neural activity [Review] rdcu.be/c0zz2 With Eva Dyer we ask how recordings across times, conditions or animals can be aligned. No supervised signals needed! Try the codes here: nerdslab.github.io/neuralign/

Some friends, Mickaël Zugaro CIRB_CdF and Cathie Ventalon IBENS are recruiting a motivated postdoc or an engineer to do super cool research using in vivo fast optical CA1 recordings in freely moving rodent, please spread the word for them. They are really great !

I’m looking to hire a PhD student to work on computational modeling for neuroscience and robotics on topics like visual attention, decision-making, and socioaffective processes. Deadline: 10 Jan 2023 Details via link below 👇 RT appreciated! 🙏 t.ly/PhD2023

I want to share a group opinion on a recent paper that claimed they demonstrated intelligence-like properties in neurons in a dish. I hope it’s helpful. Thanks to all the collaborators and colleagues sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

What is the role of dopamine (DA) in behavior? Our new preprint with first author Konstantin Bakhurin deconstructs the reward prediction error (RPE) hypothesis of DA function. Here's a thread.

𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻, here we go, oh with temporal dynamics! Distributed “firing then oscillations” dynamics set the goal, initiation, and pace of actions. (via Marwen Belkaid) cell.com/cell-reports/f…