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New preprint! Sina Tafazoli shows the brain builds complex tasks by compositionally combining simpler sub-task representations. By dynamically reusing neural subspaces for sensory inputs and motor actions, the brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks. 🧵 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

⭐ Come do a fun postdoc with us Universität Würzburg #UniWürzburg in collab with Nathaniel Daw Princeton University 👇 I'm very much excited about this project!!!

Looking forward to the theoretical and computational neuroscience summer school this July in Beijing. Cool lecturers including Dmitri "Mitya" LushaZhu Lab Nao Uchida and Hang Zhang. Apps due April 1.

Happy to share the preprint for my main grad school project, with Twitterless Thomas Akam, Ilana Witten, and Nathaniel Daw! Within, we formalize a popular hypothesis about replay function (that it helps build cognitive maps) using RL, and... 1/2

Why do some animals learn faster than others? In a Ilana Witten , Nathaniel Daw , Jonathan Pillow and International Brain Laboratory collab, Yoel Sanchez Araujo and I explored whether pre-existing dopamine dynamics might be to blame.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My lab is looking for a new lab manager/research assistant! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18605/res…
We are especially interested in computationally-oriented people who want to understand learning behavior & are thinking of grad school in the future (though ideally this is a two year job). /1

New paper in Cell w/ Caroline I Jahn on how the brain learns to control attention in a changing environment! Attention is learned incrementally from reward, and it maps stimuli into a generalized value space to guide decisions in many settings. 🧵cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Human behavior is hierarchically structured. But what determines *which* hierarchies people use? In a preprint, we run an experiment where people create programs that correspond to hierarchies, finding that people prefer structures with more reuse.

arxiv.org/abs/2311.18644

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The king of England does not have cancer. The last king of England fell in battle against the enemies of his people in 1066. There has been no king of England since then, only the unbearable weight of the Norman yoke

Izakaya proprietor has eerie ability to see deep into my soul with his sake recommendations.

New preprint with Nathaniel Daw and Daphna Shohamy!

We often have to make choices we've never made before. One way to do so is by knitting together relevant memories to form new relationships.

When do people access their memories to construct preferences?
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

🚨 Job alert!
The Gatsby Unit invites applications for an open-rank faculty position in #MachineLearning .
ℹ️ ucl.ac.uk/gatsby/vacanci…
⏰ Review begins 9 Jan 2024; apply by 8 Jan for full consideration
👋 Chat with Arthur Gretton, Maneesh Sahani or Andrew Saxe at #NeurIPS2023

Applications open for student researchers (formerly interns)!
deepmind.google/about/careers/…

There will likely be projects with me+colleagues (including Kevin Miller!) on comp neuro, and ML directions on memory+retrieval. Locations in NYC/London.

Reach out if any questions!

Applications are open for the Google DeepMind Student Researcher Program!

There will likely be projects available to work with me and with others in computational neuroscience. If interested, please feel free to get in touch!

Learn more and apply here: deepmind.google/about/careers/…

The Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Computer Science at Princeton University invite applications for a faculty position in the area of NeuroAI and Intelligent Systems. Please apply here by Nov 15:
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

One more week to apply for our joint faculty position in Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Computer Science dept, in neuroAI and intelligent systems, broadly construed. Do you fit? Yes. But feel free to contact me with q's. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…