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naoshigeuchida.bsky.social
Neuroscientist. Professor at Harvard University. Studies the neural mechanisms underlying decision-making and learning. Dopamine.
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Our new paper. Prospective contingency explains behavior and dopamine signals during associative learning. Collaboration with @neurovenki.bsky.social , @gershbrain.bsky.social rdcu.be/ed1na

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Decoding Learning: How Cues and Rewards Shape Behavior and Dopamine Signals 🧠 🧪🧫 🧬 #science #neuro www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @saramatias.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @natureneuro.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

How can we design human-interpretable AI models to explain why neurons behave as they do? Excited to share our work in collaboration with @saramatias.bsky.social, Hao Wu, Simona Temereanca, @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social, @neurovenki.bsky.social, @paulmasset.bsky.social, and Demba Ba @harvard.edu 1/21

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to be a part of it! Congratultations, Bahareh Tolooshams, Sara Matias, and the team! Thanks, Demba Ba and Paul Masset, for their leadership! "Interpretable deep learning for deconvolutional analysis of neural signals" authors.elsevier.com/c/1klDA3BtfH...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

New Deep Learning Framework Reveals Hidden Structure in Neural Activity 🧠 #neuro #science www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @saramatias.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @btolooshams.bsky.social @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Our new study: Dopamine in the tail of the striatum facilitates avoidance in threat–reward conflicts. Congrats Iku-Tsutsui Kimura, Melissa Tian and others! Led by Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

In our new paper @dulaclab.bsky.social, we investigated a fundamental question in social neuroscience: the origin of "sociality" (the need of being together) at the levels of behavior, neuron type, neural circuit and sensory modulation. (Detailed digest below) (1/7) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Our paper @dulaclab.bsky.social on social homeostasis is online today! We characterized “social rebound” behavior after social isolation in multiple mouse strains and revealed its neural basis. Intriguingly, soft touch plays a key role in satisfying social need! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 41 days ago • 6 comments

Dulac Lab Identifies “Loneliness” Neurons in the Hypothalamus 🧠🧪🤖💡 #Science #Neuron www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @dingliu.bsky.social @blogeman.bsky.social @dulaclab.bsky.social @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @rachellegaudet.bsky.social

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Our latest findings on social behavior circuits is out: how does the brain responds to social isolation? Terrific work by @dingliu.bsky.social et al. uncovering a circuit with similar neural architecture as physiological needs (hunger, thirst, sleep..). Detailed thread soon. rdcu.be/ebo63

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

Stand up for Science, on March 7th, in Boston. Please help spread this widely.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Here it is finally: Our mathematical methods book for life scientists! Aimed at advanced undergrads and beginning grad students, plus all those who want a deeper look at the math behind quantitative biology. @portugueslab.bsky.social. 1/3

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Our new paper on distributional reinforcement learning.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Excited that Adam Lowet's PhD work has been just been published in @nature.com at doi.org/10.1038/s415.... He has already posted about it on Twitter/X (see twitter.com/Adam_Lowet/s...), but let me re-post his thread here. 1/9

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Nice to see this paper out from Jack Lindsey and his collaborators: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... They diagnose a fundamental problem with existing models of striatal plasticity, show how to fix it, and then reanalyze data from recordings of striatal projection neurons to support the model.

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

this is the travel grant that changed my life and career!!! i applied as a sophomore in college and it’s what introduced me to the field of computational neuroscience 😍 i highly recommend you share with your undergrads / apply yourself if you are one! happy to answer any questions about it

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments