Locus coeruleus: a new look at the blue spot - a new Perspective by Susan Sara and colleagues go.nature.com/3mwXRLC #locuscoeruleus

After 15 years, & having done neuroscience & computational research during this time, I am rereading this anthology of philosophy of mind papers. Organized & each paper only few pages. If anyone else is interested, we could communicate reading via tweets or smoke signals or such.

for my applied dynamical systems course, i am preparing some materials on neuroscience for next month... my favorite part of this is the *threshold linear network* model... 1/

#NeuralNetworks have revolutionized #MachineLearning. Continuing our #computationalstatistic+#DataScience series at uni Heidelberg, lecture eight introduces neural networks mathematically, explains backpropagation, the exploding gradient problem, and CNNs: heibox.uni-heidelberg.de/d/d606658a5d56…

Using dimensionality reduction techniques Mikio Aoi, Valerio Mante, and Jonathan Pillow disentangle the contributions of different task variables to neural population activity. rdcu.be/b79ji

My deep RL course (CS285) now has fall 2020 lectures online, here: youtube.com/playlist?list=… We'll update this each week with the latest lectures. Hopefully these lectures are helpful! We tried to update material from past years, and recorded it in a more online-friendly format.

Our article on the geometry of neural representations came out today in Cell: The Geometry of Abstraction in the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex cell.com/cell/fulltext/… Many new exciting results compared to the biorxiv version.

It’s textbook knowledge that hippocampal place cells are active at a particular place. But what happens to navigation when you activate place cells away from their favourite location? For the answer, check out our new paper in Cell (cell.com/cell/fulltext/…) and read on 👇 (1/16)

Excited (and terrified) to start releasing the material for the Math Tools for Neuroscience course I'm teaching this fall at Harvard! Khan academy style videos and tutorials/exercises in Google colab (python) github.com/ebatty/MathToo…

Our new PNAS paper looks at how events with similar structure are represented in the brain. Medial temporal lobe and frontoparietal cortex form reduced-dimensionality representations, with a neural geometry that aligns events with the same structure. Neal Morton PNASNews

CAPTURE: 24/7 whole-body 3D tracking in rodents, out today in Neuron: authors.elsevier.com/a/1cGDh3BtfGx4…. We use CAPTURE to measure everything a rat does all the time. @BOlveczky Gordon Berman, Diego Aldarondo, William Wang. 1/n

Vector cells in the hippocampus fire when an animal is at a specific distance and allocentric direction from a cue Poulter, Colin Lever, & colleagues discover vector trace cells in the subiculum — cells whose firing persists after the cue is removed nature.com/articles/s4159…

1/2 Such a cool @nature paper on spatial navigation: using real-world spatial navigation and observation tasks, it shows that oscillatory activity in the human brain encodes representations of self and others nature.com/articles/s4158…

Visual images can be reconstructed from fMRI brain signals. Are they just about stimuli or about subjective percept? In this new preprint, work led by Horikawa-san, we show that given overlapping images as a stimulus (left), attention (to 'red') alters the reconstruction (right)

Our new review looks at how cognitive maps in hippocampus, entorhinal cortex, and medial prefrontal cortex support both episodic memory and concept learning. These cognitive maps may support imagination of both future episodes and novel concepts. authors.elsevier.com/a/1cNbc_rUrU3r…

Our paper in preparation addresses the messiness of neuroscience's use of the term "representation" and puts it in philosophical context. Would love to hear what some other people think who think a lot about brains! arxiv.org/abs/2102.06592 with Kording Lab 🦖 Ben Lansdell

#nhpephys Hippocampus Series: A thread of threads

Thanks again for a fantastic talk and all the time you spent chatting with the students. This kind of opportunity is so rare that we appreciated it enormously. I'm very thankful to have been the student organizer and host for this year's Neisser Lecture with you as our speaker.

#TeachingGradually is out now! Want to help your students take more effective notes? Dr. Hamid Turker 🐀 and I had a lot of fun contributing a book chapter on how to teach and support note-taking in college classrooms. Stylus Publishing Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation