The relational bottleneck as an inductive bias for efficient abstraction Review by T. Webb (Taylor Webb), S. Frankland, A. Altabaa (@Awni00), S. Segert, K. Krishnamurthy, D. Campbell, J. Russin, T. Giallanza, R. O’Reilly, J. Lafferty, & J. Cohen tinyurl.com/wy8kft6j

Very excited to see our review of relational inductive biases in neural networks out now in TICS x.com/TrendsCognSci/… see below for thread:

Check out our review on how the prefrontal cortex integrates memory systems across timescales to guide adaptive behavior! And we detail the many plastic changes observed in PFC with learning and training, from single neurons to brain-wide activity patterns

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We have a new preprint with Kazuhisa Shibata , Takahiro Nishio, and David Badre! “Practice Reshapes the Geometry and Dynamics of Task-tailored Representations.” biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Now out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146…

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab at Brown! Please apply if you're interested in judgment and decision-making, social+cognitive psych, or using games/experiments/computational models to understand human behavior. Apps due Dec 1! More info: davidlevari.com

It's an honour to have been selected to deliver this fantastic mini-symposium during the #SFN24 Our speakers are ready to show: 🥰 how the cerebellum is enrolled in much more than motor tasks 📡 how it communicates with other brain areas ⚕️ its roles in health and disease

Mark D'Esposito draws on a half-century of research, as well as insights gained in his lab, to break down our current understanding of frontal lobe function and working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience #SfN24 #Neuroscience thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-tale-about-t…

Curious about pursuing a graduate degree in Cognitive Science or Psychology? Join us for our Virtual Graduate Program Preview, hosted by the Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology at Brown University.

35 years of studies argue that kids assume word meanings are mutually exclusive. In Association for Psychological Science, Gabor Brody, Athulya Aravind, and I argue kids aren't making an assumption. We show 2y.o. only think words are mutually exclusive when they're told so. 1/ osf.io/awtch

A transient high-dimensional geometry affords stable conjunctive subspaces for efficient action selection nature.com/articles/s4146… #neuroscience

Distinct functions for beta and alpha bursts in gating of human working memory nature.com/articles/s4146… #neuroscience

Great coverage by Providence Journal on deep brain stimulation for stroke by Carney Institute for Brain Science affiliate and Brown University Health surgeon Wael Asaad. The Cleveland Clinic trial, now available in RI, is testing whether electric current in the brain can help with stroke recovery. #BrownBrainScience