𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 Cell !

How does the brain processes proprioceptive information?🧠

We use a task-driven modeling approach by combining biomechanics 🦾 and neural network modeling💻 to investigate different hypotheses. 1/N

cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092…

Excited to announce the 2nd Analytical Connectionism summer school!

How can we mathematically understand neural network models of higher level cognition?

Where: Flatiron CCN, New York
When: Aug 12-23, 2024
Info: events.simonsfoundation.org/event/e070287e…

Apply by May 17, travel awards available!

Can we think of biological dynamics as hard analogue optimization problems? My new preprint explores what happens when an ecosystem becomes ill-conditioned.
arxiv.org/html/2403.1918…

'Mathematics of intelligence' IPAM is accepting applicants!

Financial support available to attend and participate for extended periods, especially for recent PhDs, graduate students, and researchers in the early stages of their career.

Apply!

ipam.ucla.edu/programs/long-…

🕊️🎁Our new paper is out with Selmaan Chettih , Steph Hale, and Dmitriy Aronov!!

Appreciate the people, the birds, and the neuroethology path.

Access link (open until May 18): authors.elsevier.com/c/1ir1ML7PXqQ4q🎁🕊️

With joy and some sadness: rdcu.be/dApZJ
We enjoyed retracing our intellectual journey, and revisiting the many papers that drove our thinking. As we were drawn to dynamical explanations, preparatory activity was our gateway drug. Work by Matt Kaufman was a key enabler

I’m super excited to say that I will be starting my lab as Asst. Prof. at the University of Pennsylvania Penn Arts & Sciences in the beautiful, vibrant, and sunny city of Philadelphia. My lab will lead an integrative approach to animal cognition in the lab and in the field!! #recruiting

Amazing cross disciplinary study of primate social behavior by Camille Testard, much to learn and savour, congrats! 👏🥂🎉

Congratulations to The Brain Prize winners 2024: Larry Abbott, @Sejnowski, and Haim Sompolinsky

They have pioneered the field of computational and theoretical neuroscience and have made seminal contributions to our understanding of the principles that govern the brain’s…

Thrilled to share that my PhD advisor, Larry Abbott, and pioneers Terry Sejnowski Terrence Sejnowski & Haim Sompolinsky Haim Sompolinsky clinched the prestigious Brain Prize for their groundbreaking work in computational and theoretical neuroscience.
🤘🤓🤘

This honor is a watershed…

'The study of the cortical control of movement experienced a conceptual shift over recent decades, as the basic currency of understanding shifted from single-neuron tuning towards population-level factors and their dynamics.' - New review out!

nature.com/articles/s4158…

Neural scaling laws report how the loss of a model depends on the model size, training time, and total available data. In recent work with Alex Atanasov Cengiz Pehlevan we develop a model of scaling with these three quantities for networks in the lazy training/kernel regime.

Postdoc opening in computational neuroscience: Come join us at Yale in Physics, the QBio Institute Yale QBio , and the Wu Tsai Institute Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University!

Lab details: lynnlab.yale.edu

If you’re at APS March Meeting APS Meetings come find me!

Presenting work today at #Cosyne24 on a theory of end-to-end learning in large RNNs which can capture reservoir computing and feature learning regimes with Jacob Zavatone-Veth Cengiz Pehlevan. Come by poster 38 today if interested!

🚨 Preprint alert 🚨 Higher-order correlations (HOCs) carry important information, for example in images, but how hard is it to unwrap those higher-order correlations? We study this question with Eszter Székely, Lorenzo Bardone, and Federica Gerace in a spiked cumulant model...👇