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Time to kvell over folks in my lab in 2021 (hey, it’s still January). I was very lucky to work with an amazing group of scientists. In our first paper of the year, Eunyoung Kim asked how persistent activity is generated, maintained, and terminated in cortex.

How does the brain account for predictable unpredictability? Jeremiah Cohen cooper grossman Bilal Bari have an answer, I wrote a little thing about it ⬇️ malkasvei.myportfolio.com/expected-unexp…

Replays can arise after visiting a place only once, but what happens to the replay after a second or third visit? New work by Alice Berners-Lee and co cell.com/neuron/pdf/S08…

new review from Jeremiah Cohen and me that describes previous work and some musings on neuromodulators and timescales of conscious decision making annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

(1/8) Delighted to announce our new results on medial frontal cortex’s role in performance monitoring and cognitive control! Neurons formed domain-general representations of errors, conflict, and conflict probability, while preserving task-specific info. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

It’s official! I am delighted to share that I will be joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in August 2023. My lab will study social neuroscience and computational psychiatry 🧠. Thrilled to join amazing colleagues & a growing community PSYCTerps umdnacs BSOS @ UMD.

Excited to share my new work with Sam Gershman! We develop a theory of resource-bounded rationality and find that undermatching - a ubiquitous behavioral bias - is a consequence of memory constraints. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

fresh pre-print from Sue Su in the Jeremiah Cohen lab! a beautiful characterization of functional subpopulations of norepinephrine neurons during learning and decision-making. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

What do you get when you combine RL and predictive coding? The in vivo activity patterns of serotonin neurons. Excited to share a new theory and analysis to back it up! doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… With Richard Naud and Jean-Claude Beique in collab with cooper grossman & Jeremiah Cohen. 🧵

Interested in serotonin and RL? Drop by poster 77 on Thursday night at #Cosyne2024 to hear about the connection between normative theory and biophysical implementation in the dorsal raphe. Come for the model, stay for benchmarks that blow CNN models of vision out of the water 💥

What makes serotonin neurons tick? Stop by #COSYNE2025 poster 1-116 on Thursday to hear about how an energy-efficient code for value explains the in vivo responses of serotonin neurons to rewards and punishments. 1/2

What are serotonin neurons trying to tell the brain? Our work on the question has been so much fun (Jean-Claude Beique , @JermiahYCohen, cooper grossman ). Check out Emerson F. Harkin 's exciting paper biorxiv.org/content/10.110… nature.com/articles/s4158…