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Neural representation of action symbols in primate frontal cortex biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_neursci

Eye candy alert. nature made an immersive landing page for MICrONS. nature.com/immersive/d428…

9 papers published so far in our special issue on control theory and behavior, covering diverse perspectives from authors in many different fields. Many more to come. sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…

A free PDF of my book "Rollout, Policy Iteration, and #ReinforcementLearning " has been posted at my web site web.mit.edu/dimitrib/www/d… An extensive research account on rollout algorithms, including multiagent rollout, and the connection with Newton's method

Here is the video of my new lecture on `Differential Geometry and Manifolds'. Today's lecture is on "The Holonomy Group". Here is the link: youtube.com/watch?v=nJa8Tu…

Our new paper is out in Science. What is the synaptic plasticity rule in the brain, we asked. It turns out there are multiple, even within individual neurons. Congrats Jake! science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Sleep homeostasis in lizards and the role of the cortex | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Our focused ultrasound (FUS) #neuromodulation paper now out in molecularpsychiatry! Low-intensity FUS attenuates #amygdala fMRI BOLD signal. Broad therapeutic effects in patients with once-daily FUS. Next up, the RCT! Thanks to One Mind, who funded this! rdcu.be/ejcYD

great and wide-ranging interview between mbruchas and Mac Shine, centering on the Bruchas lab's recent nature paper from co-first authors Andrew Luskin and Li Li, MD, PhD. check it out!

What's the most control-theoretic "Adaptive DBS" paper *in patient* out there?

Course notes: "Optimal Transport for Machine Learners" (by Gabriel Peyré): arxiv.org/abs/2505.06589

We present Panda: a foundation model for nonlinear dynamics pretrained on 20,000 chaotic ODE discovered via evolutionary search. Panda zero-shot forecasts unseen ODE best-in-class, and can forecast PDE despite having never seen them during training (1/8) arxiv.org/abs/2505.13755

1/6 Why does the brain maintain such precise excitatory-inhibitory balance? Our new preprint explores a provocative idea: Small, targeted deviations from this balance may serve a purpose: to encode local error signals for learning. biorxiv.org/content/10.110… led by Julian Rossbroich

Using a field-theoretic formulation of a stochastic leaky integrate-and-fire model to study the phase diagram of networks of spiking #neurons, researchers show that #networks with observed #nonlinear behaviors display metastability. Read the paper: go.aps.org/3Tc7Nvu

New research shows long-term learning is shaped by dopamine signals that act as partial reward prediction errors. The study in mice reveals how early behavioural biases predict individual learning trajectories. Find out more ⬇️ sainsburywellcome.org/web/blog/long-…

People should know what controllability is before claiming to design a control input (or an optimal control input). You can design a control input using linear control theory principles only when the original nonlinear system is controllable (if you are using Koopman formalism).

🚨New preprint !! Interpreting the training process of a neural network as a temporal network trajectory, we found a regime where such trajectory becomes chaotic. Rather than a nuisance, such chaotic mixing boosts training! w/ P. Jiménez, Miguel C. Soriano arxiv.org/abs/2506.08523

📢The second edition of our Workshop on Biological Control Systems is happening online on 19 Nov 2025, with sessions across Asia, Europe, and the Americas. 📢 Talks & posters abstract submissions: Aug 1 & Aug 15 Keynotes and more info on our website: biocontrolseminars.org/workshop-2025

Cerebellar circuit computations for predictive motor control — a Review by Katrina P. Nguyen & Abigail L. Person nature.com/articles/s4158…

Have you ever wondered how biology creates agency out of physics? I will explain the mechanism in simple language tomorrow, in a virtual seminar Biocontrol Seminars (link below). (video D Rogers, Vanderbilt U)