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roxana-zeraati.bsky.social
In search of computational principles of natural adaptive behavior. Postdoc with Peter Dayan @mpicybernetics.bsky.social http://roxanazeraati.org/
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Check out our latest profile! Dr. Eve Marder studies the stability and flexibility of neural circuit function. Follow the link below to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202... #StoriesofWiN #WomenInNeuroscience #WomenInNeuro

Excited to dig into this, from @jeanremiking.bsky.social 's group. Compares neural representations of language across age. The stimulus? Le Petit Prince. ai.meta.com/research/pub...

Today in @nature.com , we report a spatial single-cell atlas of human cortical development, revealing surprisingly early specification of human cortical layers and areas. We built an interactive browser to explore the spatial data: walshlab.org/research/cor... Paper link below 👇

If you are interested in joining @cmc-lab.bsky.social, the application deadline is extended till May 30!

This looks important.

Our work on how continuous attractors emerge in unstructured RNNs is now out in PRX Life #PRXLife : journals.aps.org/prxlife/abst... Work done with @tankutcan.bsky.social @sesamedusa.bsky.social

New work by @liushuze.bsky.social establishes an empirical link between policy complexity and neural dimensionality: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.

🎨🧑‍🎨 Looking for a tool to visualize subcortical/thalamic data in 2D? Check out this python-based package I put together (subcortex-visualization on PyPI), plus a guide for creating your own custom atlas meshes and vector graphics! All feedback/tips welcome 😊 anniegbryant.github.io/subcortex_vi...

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (= May 1st, Thursday, 2 PM CET), @sarthakc.bsky.social will tell us about his recent @nature.com paper (bsky.app/profile/sart...). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to [email protected] to get the link!

🙌 Hot off the presses @natcomms.nature.com! We created a custom #Minecraft environment to study a long-standing puzzle in cognitive science: How do humans flexibly adapt their individual and social learning strategies in dynamic, realistic situations? Check it out 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

@cmc-lab.bsky.social also welcome interested applicants. Please get in touch if you are into understanding the computational machinery of cognitive processes ;)

My first science love and origin of my bsky handle, cerebellum-like structures have emerged over and over again in the brain for different tasks. Figure from www.researchgate.net/profile/Curt...

Check out our new paper at #ICLR2025, where we show that multi-task neural decoding is both possible and beneficial. As well, the latents of a model trained only on neural activity capture information about brain regions and cell-types. Step-by-step, we're gonna scale up folks! 🧠📈 🧪 #NeuroAI

🎟️ Each year, we invite the international #CompNeuro community to the #BernsteinConference, one of the most renowned conferences worldwide in the field! This year it takes place from Sept 29 - Oct 2 at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt. Stay updated here 👉 bernstein-network.de/en/bernstein...

This preprint suggests the cerebellum instructs neocortical plasticity via the thalamus: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Very cool if this holds, a really important finding! I've said it before and I'll say it again: plasticity in the brain is less "local" than most people think. 🧠📈 🧪

I look forward to presenting and discussing this work www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... in the Soft Matter and Biophysics Seminar of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences! More info and link to join here: english.itp.cas.cn/activities/T...

🎫 Conferences, symposia, workshops, courses... our members are actively involved in many events. You'll find a current list of upcoming events of interest to #CompNeuro researchers on our website! 👉 bernstein-network.de/en/newsroom/...

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (= April 10, Thursday, 2 PM CET), Sage Chen will tell us about his lab recent works, including sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to [email protected] to get the link!

📽️Recordings from our @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #COSYNE2025 workshop on “Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" are now online: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🧠🤖

Today is the last day to vote for CaCTüS 🌵as one of the most inspiring and successful concepts for the Impact of Diversity Award 🏳️‍🌈. Help us show what real change in living diversity in the sciences 🔬⚛️ looks like! Cast your vote for CaCTüS now! iodaward.awardstage.com/public/judgi...

This review has turned into my go-to paper for rodent PFC circuit. Useful in the lab and for teaching. Thanks @panastasiades.bsky.social and @carterlab.bsky.social for writing this. www.cell.com/trends/neuro...

Very much look forward to it!

I'm excited to share that the last chapter of my PhD thesis is now published in Nature! 🍾 What drives serotonin neurons? We think it's the expectation of future reward and --- critically --- how fast this expectation is increasing. 📈 doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/6

Eva Dyer and I wrote an opinion piece for @thetransmitter.bsky.social on why neuroscience needs to embrace complexity and accept the "bitter lesson" by using a data-driven regime at scale. With commentary from several wonderful researchers! 🧠📈 #NeuroAI 🧪

Interested in neural timescales? Join @shiyanliang.bsky.social and I at the first poster session @cosynemeeting.bsky.social to learn about a new organizational principle of neural timescales beyond the hierarchy, across the whole mouse brain! #cosyne2025

Looking forward to sharing some brand new, never presented, unpublished data next week at COSYNE! Lineup is 🔥

If you are around for the @cosynemeeting.bsky.social conference and interested in how neural computations happen in the brain without neurons (with astrocytes), drop by our workshop co-organized w/ @inbalgoshen.bsky.social and @leokoz8.bsky.social www.cosyne.org/workshops-pr...

(1/6) Excited to share a new preprint from our lab! Can large, deep nonlinear neural networks trained with indirect, low-dimensional error signals compete with full-fledged backpropagation? Tl;dr: Yes! arxiv.org/abs/2502.20580.

Heading to @cosynemeeting.bsky.social next week. Will be in Montreal (and for a few days in Toronto afterward). If you want to chat about joining us in @cmc-lab.bsky.social, drop me a line!

Make your impact! Vote for CaCTüS 🌵as one of the most inspiring and successful concepts for the Impact of Diversity Award 🏳️‍🌈. Help us show what real change in living diversity in the sciences 🔬⚛️ looks like! Cast your vote for CaCTüS now! 👉 iodaward.awardstage.com/public/judgi...

1/7 Our paper on individual variability in decision-making is finally out in @nature.com! Inspired by the classic work by Mante and Sussillo, we trained many rats to solve context-dependent decision-making, and we found that different brains use different neural mechanisms to solve the same task!

Our new paper. Prospective contingency explains behavior and dopamine signals during associative learning. Collaboration with @neurovenki.bsky.social , @gershbrain.bsky.social rdcu.be/ed1na

Excited to share our latest preprint with @camillopadoasch.bsky.social and Xiao-Jing Wang! We present a biologically plausible framework showing how neural circuits compute & compare value to drive flexible economic decision making. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Interested in using #CEBRA for modeling neural &/or behavioral (or both) dynamics? Check out the newest demo notebook to help you get started! 🚀 📝 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 💻 cebra.ai/docs/demo_no...

Happy to see this study led by Irene Onorato finally out - we show distinct phase locking and spike timing of optotagged PV cells and Sst interneuron subtypes during gamma oscillations in mouse visual cortex, suggesting an update to the classic PING model www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New study with my talented postdoc Lisa Blum Moyse. We develop a mathematical model of how social hierarchy shapes foraging decisions. Social hierarchy can be modeled as a group of agents, leaders and followers, interacting in a variety of ways @cbehav.bsky.social @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

This is a very cool preprint articulating a lot of important considerations re: the way we think about “naturalistic” behavior in (sys) neuro.

Register here survey2.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/75... to receive the Zoom details for an Info-Day on March 20th at 2 PM CET or March 26th at 4 PM CET! You will gain insights into our three #MSc programs Neural & Behavioural Sciences, Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience and Computational Neuroscience.

Your weekend reminder to spread the word about our Konstanz school of collective behavior . A great line up of speakers and a wide variety of topics revolving around quantitative studies of collective behavior

Virtual reality rewrites the rules of the swarm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... We find that classical models of collective behavior fail to account for collective motion. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Highly recommend this position! Shervin has been one of the smartest and kindest scientists I’ve collaborated with and he is a great mentor!

What should count as a good model of intelligence? AI is advancing rapidly, but how do we know if it captures intelligence in a scientifically meaningful way? We propose the *NeuroAI Turing Test*—a benchmark that evaluates models based on both behavior and internal representations.

I'm biased, we are collaborating. But there is a reason we are collaborating: I find Shervin to be one of the brightest and kindest scientists I've had the opportunity to meet. This is a great opportunity if you're considering grad school

New work accepted to #AISTATS2025 ✨ We developed a new explainable AI method to better understand time-series data. We can map back inputs (neurons) to their latent space. Basically merging #CEBRA with measuring the individual neurons contribution over time arxiv.org/abs/2502.12977

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

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (= Feb 20, Thursday, 2 PM CET), @nosrat.bsky.social will tell us about his recent preprint (bsky.app/profile/nosr...). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to [email protected] to get the link!

📣 Excited to announce our workshop "Agent-Based Models in Neuroscience: Complex Planning, Embodiment, and Beyond" at the upcoming @cosynemeeting.bsky.social #CoSyNe2025! 🧠🤖 🪱🪰🐟🐝🐭💪 Schedule: neuro-agent-models.github.io 🗓️ Join us in Mont-Tremblant, Canada, on March 31!