Deeply honored and grateful to receive this award! Thank you for the opportunity @HopkinsKavli and the invaluable guidance of my mentors @kishoreneuro and @BaselessPursuit. Excited to continue my postdoctoral research, exploring new frontiers in habit formation.
Applications are open for the 2025 Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences Early Career Colloquium! This is a great opportunity to present your work and meet JHU faculty and trainees. Deadline 10/15/24.
Coming to Chicago for @SfNtweets? Come check out our posters and meet our amazing team on Monday afternoon (all together this time!) Diverse projects (single-task learning, continual learning, AD, vocalization categories, habits) and species (mice and bats). Monday 1-5pm E5-E12
just a reminder our ask anything panel about PhD applications is on Monday 12-1pm and our meetup is Sunday from 7-8pm! please reach out to Maria (email in post) or me via Twitter for meetup details #sfn2024#SfN24@New2Neuropsych@SfNtweets
Are you interested in graduate school but not sure where to start? @ProjectShort, a student-led organization committed to shrinking the socioeconomic gap in higher education, is having an Ask Anything session at #sfn2024!
The Wolff Lab is looking for a #Postdoc for a NIH-funded project to study how distinct learning systems interact.
Catch me at SfN or reach out via email if you are interested!
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We are happy to announce that we have received a grant from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund (@bwfund) to launch a GSEC Scholarship Fund to support 34 1st year grad students (part of our GSEC 2024 program) by covering financial expenses in their 1st year of grad school.
Applications are open for the 2025 Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences Early Career Colloquium! This is a great opportunity to present your work and meet JHU faculty and trainees. Deadline 10/15/24.
1/ A century ago, Tolman showed that meaningful learning can occur even without apparent performance improvements. What is the neural basis of this distinction between learning something vs learning to perform? We tackle this in a new manuscript š„ šš¬š°
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Excited to have this paper out in the world @CurrentBiology! This work was led by the brilliant @ziyizhu15 who took the leap of faith to join the lab as the first PhD student. He epitomizes the best of science - creative, careful, diligent, and a true team player (1/6)
Excited to share our new result on Current Biology: sciencedirect.com/science/ar⦠with @kishoreneuro. Is there such a thing as a āstrategicā error? Humans and other animals often make errors when learning something new, in part because learning a task with no prior knowledge is hard.
Echolocating bats two-photon imaging categorical representation of vocalizations midbrain = exciting talk from Jennifer Lawlor @AROMWM tomorrow morning!! Part of an excellent panel on the function of the auditory midbrain. Check it out!
If youāre collaborating with Israeli PIs, think about whether you could invite one of their international trainees for a short stay so that they can get some work done while they are unable to return to their home lab.
MIGRATION ALERT: More than 600 MILLION birds predicted for tonight! Given the tragic mass window collisions in Chicago (see our previous post), it's an important time to dim nonessential outdoor lights at night & make your windows safer for birds: birdcast.info/science-to-actā¦
We are excited to introduce our first Fall 2023 seminar speakers @Sharizz@mariooosp , who will present their work at UMB on October 10th. You wonāt want to miss it! A zoom link will be made available for those who prefer a virtual option.
Have you ever wondered when a habit becomes a habit? Like when you were supposed to turn left to the grocery store but ended up turning right as if going to work? Check out our recent work w/@kishoreneuro@baselesspursuit@ziyizhu15@Sun_Ruolan and twitter-less Zyan Wang in a š§µ
⣠This view suggests that animals under habitual control can still internally āexperienceā periods of goal-directedness (i.e. they still want plain water sometimes). In addition, the higher-level nature of the choice suggests that habitual control need not be permanent.
⣠Methodologically, the āvolitional engagementā paradigm complements existing approaches by allowing assessment of the decision controller šš ššš š ššš” and paves the way to understanding the neural dynamics and circuits that support habit formation in real-time.