Laboratory for Neural Circuit and Behavior, School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London
Joined March 2015
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Benucci Lab retweeted
Great blog post from @ItsNeuronal on the interpretation of Log-Likelihood Ratios for model comparison, including a (new to me!) result on how to obtain a significance threshold for declaring one model better than another:
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How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake โ new study theconversation.com/how-psycโฆ via @ConversationUK
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Nature research paper: Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex
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Jan 3
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Leaving aside the more extreme discussions about "everything everywhere" and modularity this is a very cool paper. Data from 260 regions and 60K neurons.
doi.org/10.1101/2025.07.30.6โฆ
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Benucci Lab retweeted
30 Oct 2025
1/๐งต Out today in @FrontiersIn @FrontScience: โConsciousness science: where are we, where are we going, and what if we get there?" By @axelcleeremans, @Liad_Mudrik, & me (a @CIFAR_News & @ERC_Research production๐ง ). frontiersin.org/journals/sciโฆ
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Benucci Lab retweeted
14 Oct 2025
I did a podcast with Jon Stewart who has always been a hero of mine. It was a lot of fun. He really wanted to understand how AI works.
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Benucci Lab retweeted
19 Sep 2025
A pair of papers on using holographic optogenetics and compressed sensing for connectomics
Rapid learning of neural circuitry from holographic ensemble stimulation enabled by model-based compressed sensing
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Benucci Lab retweeted
31 Jul 2025
๐ฆ New @TrendsNeuro spotlight on our recent @NatureComms paper!
How do brains generalise spatial information across sensory modalities?
Our study identifies a region in the dorsal cortex of mice enabling them to transfer spatial knowledge between vision and touch!๐๐ป๐ ๐cell.com/trends/neuroscienceโฆ
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25 Jul 2025
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20 Jun 2025
My postdoc work "Unsupervised pretraining in biological neural networks" is out now, along with more than 400GB (milliions neurons) neural data. nature.com/articles/s41586-0โฆ. Figshare and Github links can be found in the paper.
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Press Release -- New research shows how brain circuitry produces inferred emotions, allowing a better understanding of anxiety. #Emotions #BrainScience #RIKEN #MentalHealth @RIKEN_CBS @JoJoLab5 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-0โฆ riken.jp/en/news_pubs/researโฆ
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Benucci Lab retweeted
28 Mar 2025
Video prediction foundation models implicitly learn how objects move in videos. Can we learn how to extract these representations to accurately track objects in videos _without_ any supervision? Yes! ๐งต
Work done with: @Rahul_Venkatesh, @SeKim1112, @jiajunwu_cs and @dyamins
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Benucci Lab retweeted
25 Mar 2025
We just finished up Winter quarter CS375: Large-Scale Neural Network Models for Neuroscience. Check out the publicly available Syllabus and lecture notes cs375.stanford.edu/course-caโฆ
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20 Feb 2025
๐จFully funded PhD opportunity at QMUL, London!๐จ
Join us to explore optogenetic control of visual perception. Open to UK nationals & UK-ILR residents.
Please share! ๐
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Benucci Lab retweeted
16 Feb 2025
New study from our lab, in collab with @erlichlab
We developed novel frameworks to study multi-agent decision-making in mice.
Mice flexibly shift their value preference under social competition, by integrating real-time self and opponent information!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/โฆ
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Benucci Lab retweeted
13 Feb 2025
We always see that: 1) neural responses are very diverse 2) the shattering dimensionality is as high as it can be. Now also in an extensive analysis of the IBL dataset. Wonderful collaboration with @LorenzoPosani , Shuqi Wang, Samuel Muscinelli, Liam Paninski. Many new analyses
13 Feb 2025
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 ๐งฑ and dimensionality ๐ of the neural code across 40 regions.
doi.org/10.1101/2024.11.15.6โฆ
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Benucci Lab retweeted
21 Dec 2024
Temporal dynamics of energy-efficient coding in mouse primary visual cortex biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/โฆ An efficient paper with few words but a lot of information. ๐
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Benucci Lab retweeted
19 Dec 2024
25 yrs ago, perception dominated neuroscience, and Raj's @RajeshPNRao predictive coding theory.
Now, it's all about action-perception loops across the hierarchy... "active predictive coding."
Also, augmenting our cognition with AI neural co-processors!
braininspired.co/podcast/201โฆ
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Benucci Lab retweeted
18 Dec 2024
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/10.1101/โฆ
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