🚀The curious U: Integrating theories linking knowledge and information-seeking behavior New preprint with Alexander Ten,Michiko Sakaki and Kou Murayama Special thanks to Alex for leading this work! 🙌 📖 osf.io/preprints/psya… In this paper, we study how 7 theories of human

Back in 2022, Roxana Zeraati & I organized a Cosyne workshop on neural timescales, and after working on it for the last 2 years together, it's now a review paper! arxiv.org/abs/2409.02684 w/ Anna Levina & Jakob Macke (2nd blogpost to turn into a real review paper this year lol)

🚨adversarial robustness is becoming even more critical as AI systems are deployed in the real-world, but how can we detect outliers (adversarials) without having trained on them 👀?  In our new preprint, we introduce AROS💍: It leverages neural ODEs and Lyapunov stability

What are the brain’s “real” tuning curves? Our new preprint "SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural representations from behaviour” argues that existing techniques for latent variable discovery are lacking. We suggest a much simpl-er way to do things. 1/21🧵

🚨Preprint alert🚨 In an amazing collaboration with Gruaz Lucas, Sophia Becker, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in neuroscience & psychology: *What are the merits of curiosity⁉️* osf.io/preprints/psya… 1/7

I am excited to announce that I've been awarded an SNSF Starting Grant! 🥳 I will start a lab at the Institute of Neuroinformatics in Zürich next year and we will work on "Neural mechanisms of perception and learning in uncertainty." Swiss National Science Foundation University of Zurich

Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprinciple…): A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

New results! Visual adaptation changes the geometry of V1 population activity: frequent stimuli elicit smaller responses but become more discriminable, consistent with our efficient coding model. You can find me on the "new neurotwitter" at mariodipoppa. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Long-overdue thread on our latest work using the IBL data to reveal the shared organizational principles of the neural code in the cortex. A systematic analysis of categoricality 🧱 and dimensionality 📐 of the neural code across 40+ regions. doi.org/10.1101/2024.1… 👇 1/n

🚨 Inviting all Curious Agents 🔍👀 to attend our workshop RLDM!! With amazing speakers from across disciplines, we attempt to arrive at the core principles underlying intrinsic motivations in biological and artificial agents 🎮🧠🤖💪 Website: sites.google.com/view/pimbaa2025

Want to hear more about hippocampus-to-cortex feedback circuit? Our paper with the Basu lab is out in Nat Neuro! rdcu.be/eak1k . Well done Tanvi Butola!

Our latest research, led by Antoine Madar, on what #SynapticPlasticity rules shape CA1 and CA3 representations in the hippocampus during familiarization has just been published in Nature Neuroscience! Read here: nature.com/articles/s4159…

What are serotonin neurons trying to tell the brain? Our work on the question has been so much fun (Jean-Claude Beique , @JermiahYCohen, cooper grossman ). Check out Emerson F. Harkin 's exciting paper biorxiv.org/content/10.110… nature.com/articles/s4158…

How does our brain predict the future? Our review of predictive processing + research program is now on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 50+ neuroscientists distributed across the world worked together to create this unique community project.

Happy to announce that my PhD thesis deriving the mathematical theory of the free-energy principle has been awarded the Yael Naim Dowker Prize for Best Maths PhD Thesis from Imperial College London!! 🎉 arxiv.org/abs/2410.11735

AI vision is insanely good nowadays—but is it really like human vision or something else entirely? In our new pre-print, we pinpoint a fundamental visual mechanism that's trivial for humans yet causes most models to fail spectacularly. Let's dive in👇🧠 [arxiv.org/abs/2504.05253]

Out now! Sharing the old tweeprint nature.com/articles/s4159…

Do you "look at nothing" when making a decision? Here we provide further evidence about the connection betwee gaze into nothing and decision confidence, revealing more on the sequential hidden dynamics of decisions journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…