Comp neuro assistant prof @CUAnschutz. Uncomfortable with personal advertisement of science, but enjoying the community here. @laurelinelogiaco.bsky.so .
It's been hard to find the words, but here goes: I have been given the wonderful opportunity to start as an assistant professor @CUAnschutz in July 2025. That also means opportunities for postdocs & grad students interested in models of motor circuits (simonsfoundation.org/people/…).
1/n Are biological neurons linear-nonlinear computers, like perceptrons, or is their output governed by non-linear interactions between inputs? If the activity of a neuron is well fit by linear models that sum inputs, does that mean that the neural computation actually is linear?
I will be presenting part of this work in workshop on
Interpreting Cognition in Deep Learning Models @CogInterp@NeurIPSConf Dec 7th, Room 5AB
Unifying Gestalt Principles Through Inference-Time Prior Integration
#NeurIPS2025
Also, some cool papers here!
coginterp.github.io/neurips2…
How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization?
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with Ken Miller! 🧵
New pre-print from our lab, by Lakshmi Govindarajan @lakshming92 with help from Sagarika Alavilli, introducing a new type of model for studying sensory uncertainty. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Here is a summary. (1/n)
How does our brain excel at complex object recognition, yet get fooled by simple illusory contours? What unifying principle governs all Gestalt laws of perceptual organization?
We may have an answer: integration of learned priors through feedback. New paper with Ken Miller! 🧵
POST-DOC JOB POST ALERT!!! 🔥
We are looking for a post-doc candidate to run our flagship clinical trial to restore arm and hand motor function in people with post-stroke hemiparesis using fully implantable spinal cord stimulation!
Send your application to: my email :) #Neurotech
How are the fluctuations in electric field organized across the whole brain? We analyzed the 3.4 M samples from the international brain lab using and found a surprising structure made of communities and landmarks. doi.org/10.1101/2025.10.01.6…@JCBeique@XingyunWang4
We're now halfway through our speech brain-computer interface decoding competition and things are getting exciting: many teams have now beat our 2024 paper's benchmark, with a few beating more recent baselines!
3 months to go!
ALT Screenshot from the Brain-to-text '25 leaderboard at https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/brain-to-text-25/leaderboard
We're excited to announce the Brain-to-Text '25 competition, with a new intracortical speech neuroscience dataset and $9,000 in prizes generously provided by @BlackrockNeuro_!. Can you do better than us at decoding speech-related neural activity into text?
kaggle.com/competitions/brai…
My department at Case Western Reserve is recruiting an Assistant / Associate Professor of Neurosciences - come be our colleague!
nature.com/naturecareers/job…
Please consider applying to the PhD program in the Psychology Department at University of Kentucky to join my lab as a trainee for Fall 2026 admission. Come study attention, mind wandering, mindfulness. Find more information about the PhD program here: psychology.as.uky.edu/grad-p…
Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz:
1. Neuroscience cuanschutz.edu/graduate-prog…
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bio…
You could work with a growing list of comp neuro PIs, including me
Interested in doing a Ph.D. to work on building models of the brain/behavior? Consider applying to graduate schools at CU Anschutz:
1. Neuroscience cuanschutz.edu/graduate-prog…
2. Bioengineering engineering.ucdenver.edu/bio…
You could work with a growing list of comp neuro PIs, including me
We have been fortunate to have a stream of extraordinary Fellows as part of our community. They have gone on to wonderful positions .. It is time, once more, to renew. Our annual search is a chance for us to understand what the brightest young people in the community are doing!
New work from Yoshi Kajikawa and myself! 🐒 🦻
We measured sound envelope encoding in different cortical layers across the nonhuman primate auditory cortical hierarchy for the first time. Thread below.
The cerebellum isn’t just about coordinating movement. It’s implicated in nearly every domain of cognition—from language to social behavior.
But how exactly does the cerebellum contribute to action and cognition? 🧵
Check out our new paper w/ @ivrylab: arxiv.org/abs/2509.09818
Our lab’s 1st paper is out on bioRxiv!
What many (including us) thought were temporal prediction/error signals, turn out to be intrinsic interval-timing signals.
Led heroically by my student Yicong @yicong4ever with amazing support from the whole lab.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Our paper is now out in Journal of Neuroscience!🥂
We show that motor training strengthens cortico-cerebellar connectivity in patients with cerebellar degeneration, especially in movement-related networks.
Great collaboration with @NeuroEssen @unidue, through @thinkglobal_rub
#JNeurosci | Using a large patient population, @carobellum et al. identified a neural pathway involving the cerebellum that has increased functional connections following motor training. doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.18…
We're hiring a Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA)!
Application link in next post.
We'll start reviewing applicants after August 25th
Please RT 🔁
ALT The Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA) leads the day-to-day interactions with our clinical trial participants, including going to their home to run brain-computer interface research sessions that our team has put together. For this crucial role we’re looking for a highly organized individual with excellent interpersonal skills, who is tech savvy and comfortable learning how to operate our technology with instruction from the PIs and the rest of the research team.
The CNRA will be a co-author on resulting publications and is welcome to get further involved in data analysis/experiment design/etc. as long as their core clinical trial responsibilities are met.
This role may be of particular interest to someone considering going on to medical school, a PhD program, or a neurotechnology industry role after a couple of years.
Check out our new manuscript. Our study demonstrates the remarkable ability of the #CNS to adapt #motor_control to long-term internal changes, even after significant alterations to the #musculoskeletal system.