Professor at Rutgers, director of a cognitive & network neuroscience lab – neuroimaging, connectivity, cognitive control, NeuroAI (mwcole@bsky.social)
Joined July 2013
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Inspired by Edinburgh’s legacy of big ideas (e.g., Hume), on a train leaving the city, I crafted a book proposal about big ideas in network neuroscience—how brain flows generate representations that compose our minds. The rest is history, and this book: shorturl.at/dSfwB
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My latest Neural Flows newsletter post!
“Enhancing scientific inference with evidence quality maps”
Automated inference as a scalable engine of discovery
neuralflows.substack.com/p/e…
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My latest Neural Flows post:
“Living in a compositional universe is a prerequisite for intelligence”
Brain flow dynamics take advantage of our environment’s compositionality to accomplish goals
neuralflows.substack.com/p/l…
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Why do our visual systems have “shortcut” connections (V1-V4)? What do they add beyond the classic hierarchical (V1-V2-V3-V4) pathway?
The lab’s latest study takes activity flow modeling to the next level to answer these questions
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Together, these results validate a new method to test complementary roles of distinct flow pathways: direct visual pathways rapidly generate detailed visual information, while hierarchical pathways build up compressed representations (e.g., shapes rather than lines). 14/n
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Thanks to first author Alexandros Tzalavras and coauthors!
The paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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My latest Neural Flows post:
“Using evidence quality to restructure incentives in science”
Metrics will inevitably bias science, so let’s switch to metrics that reflect what science should be biased by
open.substack.com/pub/neural…
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My latest post to Neural Flows!
“Reorienting neuroscience around brain flows”
A perspective shift to enhance both activity-focused (e.g., manifold, representations) and connectivity-focused (e.g., connectome) neuroscience
open.substack.com/pub/neural…
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Today I am relaunching my newsletter as Neural Flows, inspired by my forthcoming book "Brain Flows"
The newsletter asks: How does the improvised symphony of flows inside our heads generate who we are?
Check out the intro post to the new newsletter here: neuralflows.substack.com/p/w…
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