Thalamocortical architectures for flexible cognition and efficient learning Feature Review by Daniel Scott, Arghya Mukherjee, Matthew Nassar, & Michael Halassa doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2024.…

New preprint! Joint work w/ @haleykegl & @BadreLab. lPFC flexibly codes tasks of diff structure. How? We test 2 prevalant ideas 1) it uses a high dim, expressive geometry, agnostic to structure 2) it learns tailored geometries for each structure. tldr - Its 1, with an asterisk👇

How to find massive motor plasticity effects in the subcortex? Find out in our preprint. biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… Turns out these new findings change our understanding of #Parkinson disease and some #sleep processes. Let me unfold it With @ndosenbach @gordonneuro @dillannewbold

New preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.04.5… Our environments are complex and ever changing. We report behavioral data and neural network simulations showing that, in multidimensional environments, humans adapt attentional control in a dimension-specific way. w/@wouterkool ↓ 1/11

The Braver @ccplab_wustl, Bugg, and Kool @cdmlab labs at @WUSTL are looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher for an ONR-funded project on the cognitive neuroscience of attentional control. A detailed ad can be found here: cdmlab.wustl.edu/docs/MURI_p…

Excited to share the final chapter of my thesis! 🔖 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… We wanted to understand how the brain can simultaneously coordinate multiple streams of information processing, and found it uses orthogonal attention subspaces. 🧵⬇️

🚨🚨🚨#TWEEPRINT TIME🚨🚨🚨 A big mystery in brain research is what are the neural mechanisms that drive individual differences in higher order cognitive processes. Here we present a new theoretical framework w/ @brody_lab @mikio_aoi @SussilloDavid @ValerioMante @jpillowtime 1/16

November 6 🎂🥳🎉: Happy birthday and long life to Alexandra Elbakyan! Neuroscientist and software developer #Alexandra Elbakyan who revolutionized the academic and scientific world with her ideals of open access to scientific knowledge.

Lab’s latest out at PLOS Bio models how brain network interactions generate cognition using source EEG func. connectivity, “Network modeling of dynamic brain interactions predicts emergence of neural information that supports human cognitive behavior” doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio… a 🧵

We’re looking for a new postdoc! If you’re interested in how people make cost-benefit decisions, including about mental effort, this offers the chance to explore such questions using multiple (neural, comp) methods with an amazing group of people. Pls RT! bit.ly/3dBgpub

Hey, want to hear something cool? Jeff Zacks and I are jointly recruiting a postdoc. This is truly a unique and cool position bridging two neighboring labs equally obsessed with event memory, narratives, and cognitive aging. Get in touch! Retweets greatly appreciated :)

We had historic flooding in St. Louis this week. Most places are OK, but there was a part of town that is now a disaster site. Unfortunately, Matthew Singh (lab postdoc) had a home in that part. He has lost essentially everything (house, cars, pets), and his son almost died. 1/2

1/ Working on this project shifted how I think about self control, individual differences, development, equity in our science, and my heritage. I'm grateful to have been a part of it and would love to hear your thoughts. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

New paper! A very fun collaboration between @amymni and @cc_huang11 (with @BrentDoiron and me along for the ride) was just published in @eLife “A general decoding strategy explains the relationship between behavior and correlated variability” elifesciences.org/articles/6… 🧵1/9

First vanilla-style blog: Estimating test-retest reliability using 'brms' for Stroop effect Fulfilled a promise made two months ago @SolomonKurz @hollysully github.com/afni-gangc/afni-g…

(1/8) Delighted to announce our new results on medial frontal cortex’s role in performance monitoring and cognitive control! Neurons formed domain-general representations of errors, conflict, and conflict probability, while preserving task-specific info. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…

Excited to announce my 1st first-author preprint on “The construction and use of cognitive maps in model-based control”. This work was supported by the excellent mentorship of @zreagh and @wouterkool psyarxiv.com/ngqwa/ 1/11