Cool preprint; we just did a fun lab meeting on it. 🧠🧪 The core result is: Changing neural variability in V1 by injecting both E and I current affects perceptual behavioral responses. 1/4 (From the Hillel Adesnik lab, w/ Hayley Bounds.)

Very cool work. Quite compatible with our recent work in humans: tinyurl.com/mrx5c2yy We also found that additional training didn’t shift humans away from the suboptimal readout strategy.

Congratulations Ian Antón Oldenburg !! So well-deserved for a lab doing very exciting work

When does modular structure emerge in neural networks? What are the consequences of this structure for learning and behavior? New work with Stefano Fusi answers these questions and more: doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… see 🧵below (1/11)

Thanks Schmidt Science Fellows for hosting such a fun week with lots of thought-provoking sessions. Can’t wait for the next one!

“How does local circuit architecture shape spatial representations in the hippocampal CA3?” ✨Excited to share my first postdoc work in Attila Losonczy lab Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute now online as a preprint.✨ Check the link below👇 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Every moment we remember is encoded by changes in the synapses connecting brain cells. Now, in a mouse study in @nature, our own @fpolleux and Attila Losonczy labs have for the first time imaged these synaptic changes as an animal forms memories. Learn more!

Lateral inhibition from parvalbumin neurons in mouse primary visual cortex reduces sensitivity to contrast; lateral inhibition from somatostatin neurons changes the gain of contrast sensitivity nature.com/articles/s4159…

If you eat something and get sick, you shouldn't eat that thing again. Problem is, there is a long delay between when you eat and when you feel sick -- how can the brain link the two events? This cool paper shows us how the process works nature.com/articles/s4158…

Online now: Network influence determines the impact of cortical ensembles on stimulus detection dlvr.it/TKnN8W

~30 years of research in non-behaving animals argue that bilateral touch integration likely occurs downstream of primary somatosensory cortex. We reveal the state- and task-dependent logic that unlocks communication between S1s through the corpus callosum. nature.com/articles/s4159…

New paper officially out! Congratulations to Mari Sosa - amazing work - and just before she sets off to UC Boulder to start her own lab!

A nice summary of our recent paper in by the transmitter!