Literature highlight of the week: Clairis et all study the distinct roles of dorsomedial and ventromedial prefrontal cortex in the action value estimation and action actualization respectively. jneurosci.org/content/early/…

Literature highlight of the week: Zhu et al. describe how what appears to be side bias is actually part of mice strategy to tackle an auditory-based two-choice task. cell.com/current-biolog…

Literature Highlight of the Week: Ishizu et al. contrast the representation of prior values with that of sensory inputs and choice, revealing a distributed pattern for the former across the cortex, whereas the latter tends to be more localized. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Against all odds: PdCO, a versatile switchable optogenetic tool for inhibiting synaptic transmission in neuronal terminals in vivo is finally published Nature Methods nature.com/articles/s4159…

Literature highlight of last week: Chini et al. find that skewed distributions of anatomical and functional parameters, such as firing rates and synaptic weights, are already configured during development, hence are less likely to be experience dependent. cell.com/cell-reports/f…

congraulations Chini Mattia,Johanna Kostka,HanganuOpatzLab and all the authors for the amazing work!

Almost the entire Optophysiology Lab is on its way to #FENS2024. I’m excited to follow soon and I‘m looking forward to discussing our posters in the Prefrontal Cortex Functionality session on Wednesday morning. The lab coffee machine appears to be already on vacation mode…

I‘m so proud of my lab mates who presented so enthusiastically and successfully at #Fens2024. Very grateful for the high attendance. We had a blast.

Fantastic talk by Thomas Brox at #FENS2024 on AI and internal world models.

Congratulations Mackenzie Mathis, PhD M. Mathis Laboratory @EPFL Mackenzie and Alexander Mathis Alexander! Also thanks for the inspiring lecture! Fantastic work!#FENSForum2024

Dr Maria Kalweit received the Gips-Schüle Junior Award for her research on deep learning. Congratulations Maria! We are very proud to host this event! ⁦IMBIT⁩ ⁦Universität Freiburg⁩ BrainWorlds⁩ #BrainLinks-BrainTools

Literature highlight of the week: Driscoll et al. identify an algorithmic neural substrate for modular computation through the study of multitasking artificial recurrent neural networks. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Excited to see this out Neuron: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jRiE3BtfH9A… We report on a meeting about internal world models in humans, animals, and AI putting Marr's three levels into action across species. Universität Freiburg IMBIT BrainWorlds Thomas Brox Andreas Vlachos Monika Schönauer

Super interesting new book from Anil Ananthaswamy about Why machines learn: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/677608/w… Congratulations Anil Ananthaswamy !!!

And it’s out!! Check out the newest paper from our lab on how chromatin plasticity predetermines neuronal selection for memory trace formation | science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… 🧵

Literature highlight of the week: Insanally et al. show that diverse neuronal responses are likely essential for robustly supporting the dynamics required for sensorimotor transformations and adaptive behaviors, and emerge from synaptic plasticity rules nature.com/articles/s4146…

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Join us on September 10th for the #BrainWorldsJournalClub, where Volker Coenen will discuss how deep brain stimulation of the ventral tegmental area is being used to treat depression.