This is so satisfying to watch. That’s what I’d call ‘understanding’

Generalization through low-dimensional manifolds: new preprint by Manuel Beiran, the outcome of a thrilling scientific journey with @mjaztwit, together with Nicolas Meirhaeghe and hansemsohn. Tweeprint below ->

Congratulations Manuel on new work using recurrent neural networks to understand the link between contextual control, dynamics, and dimensionality!

This makes so much sense it’s hard to imagine otherwise.

Great job @newyorker really great job. Which century do you live in?

Deleting Twitter app on iPhone and not checking information here anymore. I will continue to post papers of interest from our lab for friends and colleagues who rely on this information source. But I look forward to robust conversations in person!

We are looking to hire a manually-skilled experimentally-minded postdoc to work as part of a team on primate intelligence (inference + long-horizon planning) in naturalistic tasks (rapid learning + flexible generalization). Reach out if you are interested!

Congratulations! I add that this a real attempt at good science. Rishi et al published (“pre-registered”) the models long before physiology, unlike the common approach of doing things the other way around.

Highly recommend!

New Jazlab work! When monkeys produce vectors on a map w/o visual feedback, an endogenously activated cognitive map in the entorhinal cortex reflects animals' knowledge about the (invisible) intervening landmarks. Exciting work by Sujaya Neupane w/ FieteGroup doi.org/10.1101/2022.1…

Wondering what short-term synaptic plasticity is good for? A. Barri and collaborator Mehrdad Jazayeri show in Nature Communications that neural networks preconfigured with diverse and dynamic synapses can encode the elapsed time needed to learn precise actions. doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Very happy to share our article on parametric control of low-dimensional manifolds! cell.com/neuron/fulltex… What neural mechanisms support generalization in temporal tasks? How can neural dynamics be controllable by inputs? ⏬

We are hiring a new lab manager. Please apply if you are interested and RT if appropriate. My previous lab managers have done quite well. It’s a major growth and career opportunity for academia and industry. You can apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

I will be presenting this work at #CCN2023 this Thursday at Poster P-1B.114 from 17:00-19:00 (2023.ccneuro.org/view_paper.php…), as well as on Friday 08:35 at the GAC on "Comparing artificial and biological networks" (gac.ccneuro.org/gacs-by-year/2…). Stop by if interested! CogCompNeuro

Go see what Aran has done!

We are hiring a new research technician. Apply if you are interested and RT if appropriate. It’s a major growth and career opportunity for academia and industry. Previous Jazlab techs have done quite well. You can apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

New work of potential interest by Sujaya Neupane in collaboration with FieteGroup on neural signatures of mental navigation in the primate entorhinal cortex. rdcu.be/dKC0d

This article is now open access. This was delayed due to some technicalities at Nature.

I no longer frequent here except for professional functions, but I want to send a sincere thank you to all my friends and colleagues here for their kindness and expression of support. 🙏💕 Can't wait for the opportunity to thank you in person. With gratitude...