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why can't all grant submission confirmations be like this one

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love love love this paper. a reconceptualization of DA signaling has been brewing for a while, and it's neat to see a summary of recent work. DA is anything but a scalar quantity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

sad news: R&R was rejected glad news: advancing to 2nd round postdoc interview at dream lab

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

this is very simple

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Going beyond integrating value - dopamine responses are more sophisticated: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

(1/3) SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT! The abstract submission system for the 65th annual SPR meeting (Oct. 15-18, 2025, Montréal, Canada) will open on January 16, 2025!

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

First obituary of Eleanor Maguire Fitting that it comes from a neuroscience community publication. Very grateful to Calli McMurray for writing this lovely piece on who Eleanor was and what she achieved in her dazzling career:

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

I'm seeking postdoc opps in the DC-Baltimore area! My PhD has focused on how modulating reward & motivational states affect behavior that relies on inference. I answer q's w/behavioral tasks, electrophys (EEG), & comp. modeling. More info on my work: lindsayshaffer.github.io Plz spread the word!

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i don’t ever see many people talk about Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968), but it is one of the most underrated sci-fi films ever made. absolutely beautiful and disorienting.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

New blog post! I figured out how to make some really nice visualisations of brain networks using Gephi, and wrote a tutorial on how to do it here: medium.com/@m.b.wall/ho...

submitted 76 days ago • 3 comments

I let participants listen to their favorite music on Spotify while I gel up their EEG cap. Today’s participant asked to listen to Limp Bizkit because they “are getting into their dad’s favorite bands”.

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“Cognitive flexibility as the shifting of brain network flows by flexible neural representations”, a solo paper by yours truly, making the case that brain activity flow shifts are essential to mental flexibility (and quite interesting too!) Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Important paper! www.biorxiv.org/content/bior... Im not sure the Discussion fully delineates its radical implications. No more... * Place cells * Grid cells, splitter cells, border cells * Mirror neurons * Reward neurons * Conflict cells (continued)

submitted 96 days ago • 13 comments

narrowly avoided sending group email that autocorrected “impedances” to “penises”

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

me showing up on this app

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"the mediodorsal thalamus independently represents cueing and rule uncertainty. This enables the relevant thalamic population to drive prefrontal reconfiguration ... appropriately attributing errors to an environmental change." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Hi neuroSky, thanks to Lynn Nadel & Sarah Aronowitz I wrote a book chapter on multiscale predictive representations that connect the past to the future, memory to prediction & planning. There's still time to edit it & I'd love to read your comments! Am I missing citations? arxiv.org/abs/2401.09491

submitted 404 days ago • 3 comments

Hey folks, if you have trouble seeing videos or gifs on Bluesky, that's because the settings for it are automatically turned off. Go into your settings and go to "external media"