🧪 Cortical ripples 🧪

Karolína Korvasová@neuro-karolina.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨 Preprint alert! Bursts of high frequency oscillations (80-150Hz) in the visual cortex - what do they mean? We found a footprint of the oscillation in neural activity consistent across states and species. Congrats Katarina 👏 and huge thanks to all collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🚨 Preprint alert! Bursts of high frequency oscillations (80-150Hz) in the visual cortex - what do they mean? We found a footprint of the oscillation in neural activity consistent across states and species. Congrats Katarina 👏 and huge thanks to all collaborators! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Cell-type-specific coupling of single-unit spikes and cortical ripples in macaque and human V1

Cortical ripples are brief high-frequency (80-150 Hz) oscillatory bursts in the extracellular potential, typically associated with sleep, memory, and attention processes. So far it is unclear whether ...

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So excited to be part of this one! Now officially out in Annual Review of Neuroscience 🎉 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse

Visual systems evolved to extract behaviorally relevant information while animals move through and interact with their world. Such ecological vision differs fundamentally from standard laboratory paradigms in many key aspects, making this a much harder problem for the brain to solve, and for the neuroscientist to study. However, emerging technologies and experimental approaches have enabled investigation of visual computations under these ecological conditions. These approaches are particularly powerful in the mouse, combining well-developed genetic tools, high-throughput recordings, and quantifiable ethological tasks. Here we review computations that are engaged in ecological contexts, including active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. We delineate experimental approaches that engage these computations and synthesize current understanding of their neural implementations based on mouse research. These studies reveal how ecological vision engages distinct processing strategies and novel neural circuitry, while highlighting the vast territory that remains unexplored in understanding real-world visual computation.

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Spencer LaVere Smith@spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse - with @michaelgoard.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mbeyeler.bsky.social Visual computations that are engaged in ecological contexts: active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

I see a pretty animation, I repost Very cool work :)

William Nourse@wnourse.bsky.social · 4w ago

How can we generate controllable polar trajectories on neuromorphic hardware? Check out our new pre-print on arXiv to find out all the details, and read the rest of the thread for an overview (1/11): doi.org/10.48550/arX... #neuroAI #CompNeuro #pre-print #neuroskyence #neuromorphic

And now the preprint joined the party too!! Just in time :) doi.org/10.64898/202...

Cell-type-specific coupling of single-unit spikes and cortical ripples in macaque and human V1

Cortical ripples are brief high-frequency (80-150 Hz) oscillatory bursts in the extracellular potential, typically associated with sleep, memory, and attention processes. So far it is unclear whether ...

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Aitor Morales-Gregorio@aitormg.bsky.social · 4w ago

Check out the work of my colleague Katarina at #FENS2026 🙈 Cortical ripples and how they relate to different neuron types in the macaque brain! fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/de...

Check out the work of my colleague Katarina at #FENS2026 🙈 Cortical ripples and how they relate to different neuron types in the macaque brain! fens2026.abstractserver.com/program/#/de...

I dunno if this is offensive to say because I seem to upset people when I say this, but humanities people should consider joining us, or at least join us in decoupling from Word and other MS products where we can... and @acollierastro.bsky.social says it more convincingly than I can!

Are you attending #FENS2026 and interested in the interaction of Norepinephrine and Acetylcholine on sculpting neuronal firing? Spontaneous activity? Dynamical systems? Biophysics? Cellular heterogeneity? Find them all in one place! See you at poster 613 during Thursday's morning session PS05

Both brains and RNNs can re-use components of computation across similar tasks or contexts. But what exactly are those “shared components”? How can they be used to solve several tasks? We address these questions in a new preprint with @avm.bsky.social! Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Interpretable compositional computation with recurrent neural networks

Flexible cognition utilizes reusable components to enable rapid adaptation of behavior to different contexts or tasks. Analysis of artificial neural networks trained on multiple tasks suggested that t...

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Interested in multitasking RNNs from a theory perspective? Check out this preprint with the amazing @lpezon.bsky.social. TLDR: A low-rank / latent space approach to @lndriscoll.bsky.social & @sussillodavid.bsky.social style shared components. And a story starring solution space degeneracy.

Louis Pezon@lpezon.bsky.social · last mo.

Both brains and RNNs can re-use components of computation across similar tasks or contexts. But what exactly are those “shared components”? How can they be used to solve several tasks? We address these questions in a new preprint with @avm.bsky.social! Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

We're proud to introduce Brainbow, a new Slack workspace for LGBTQIA+ people in neuroscience worldwide. Brainbow aims to provide a safe space, even for those in the closet (emails & names are optional). It also includes channels for communities within the LGBTQIA+ umbrella (eg, trans/non-binary) 1/2

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New preprint! We show low arousal states promote hippocampal ripple genesis in sleep and wake. This bridges rodent work, where ripples predominate during sleep, with human studies reporting ripples during active behavior, identifying low arousal as a common mechanism www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples

Hippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i....

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"Ripple occurrence consistently tracked low arousal: rates were maximal in NREM sleep, small-pupil wake states, and slow heart rate periods across sleep and wake... ripple-like activity outside the hippocampus showed an opposite modulation, increasing with high arousal."

Arousal state modulates human hippocampal ripples

Hippocampal ripples are transient, high-frequency oscillations linked to memory replay and consolidation. Ripples are well-characterized in rodents to occur during periods of behavioral inactivity (i....

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⏰ Last-minute reminder! Only 48 hours left to submit your Poster abstracts and Travel Grant applications for the #BernsteinConference 2026! 🗓️ Deadline: July 1 All information 👉 bit.ly/4rQowo6... #CompNeuro #Neuroskyence #BernsteinNetwork

Congratulations to Xiao-Jing Wang (NYU) for receiving the Valentin Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience 2026! 🎉 The award ceremony and accompanying lecture will take place during the #BernsteinConference on September 29. 👉 bit.ly/3QRpXFp #BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro

You thought we'd disappeared - Nothing could be further from the truth. After a four year silent retreat, cleansing ourself from the energy of The Other Place and the lingering aftertaste of several hundred harsh reviews, we're back! We'll be reposting the back catalogue & taking new submissions.

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I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

THAMES Time, MFers!! Episode 3 of the blog series, all about the SIX SECRET LETTERS FOR CRITICAL THINKING THAT THE SCIENTISTS DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW willgervais.com/blog/2026/3/... #psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

THAMES Time, MFers — Will Gervais

SIX SECRET LETTERS FOR CRITICAL THINKING THAT THE SCIENTISTS DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT. THAMES: the life-and-science changing mnemonic you didn’t even know you’ve been waiting for.

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Will Gervais@willgervais.com · 5mo ago

My Beautiful Bullshitty Baby: Episode 2 of our blog series on methods renovations. Diving into my Science and Critical Thinking module - layout, rationale, & the first few weeks. willgervais.com/blog/2026/2/... Read! Share! Tell us what you think! #psychscisky 🧪 #philsci #methodology #teaching

What happens when 18 teams of expert neuroscientists analyze the exact same neurophysiology dataset? You might expect convergence, but that is not what we found. Very grateful for the opportunity to write with Gaëlle Chapuis about one of my favorite projects since I started working in science! 1/n

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A hackathon reveals that disagreement in neuroscience runs deeper than most researchers suspect—even in electrophysiology, a field that prides itself on hard data, write @mattiachini.bsky.social and Gaelle Chapuis. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/reproducibil...

We're organizing a full-day Neuro-AI workshop at OHBM with a 90-minute-long hands-on session to cover all the nitty-gritty of it. If you're around, come join us. Besides the practical aspects, we have a stellar line-up of speakers to learn from and discuss with: kuffmode.github.io/OHBM2026Neur...

Beautiful work in this paper. I think anatomy is often under-appreciated. I'm glad to see things like this #neurosicence 🧪🧠 An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An opposing molecular gradient axis underlies primate cortical organization

The principles organizing cellular diversity and connectivity in primate brains remain elusive. By integrating spatial transcriptomics, magnetic resonance imaging, and retrograde labeling in marmosets...

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Norther Spain ancient forest 🌳 in spring.

Listen in on scientists finding (and falling for) a new species of octopus now called Microeledone galapagensis. Read more here www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny...

My chaotic attractor. Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib and #marimo (and also #wigglystuff)

As a computer scientist by training, I never for a second thought computation is restricted to digital. To me any transformation can be viewed as computation. Whether it is meaningful to think about it as computation or not is heavily contextual and depends on the question asked.

Registration for the 2026 edition of the MAT-BIO Exchange Summer School in Mathematical Biology is open only until 8th June! 🫨 🫨 🫨 lnkd.in/d7is4hcX

What is the minimal machinery needed for complex, cognition-like behavior? With @lostintheswarm.bsky.social, we show how self-sustained calcium oscillations, diffusion, and mechanics may be enough to coordinate behavior across a single cell with no nervous system. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/

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Episode #41 in #TheoreticalNeurosciencePodcast: On functional effects of neuronal heterogeneity – with David Dahmen theoreticalneuroscience.no/thn41 While network modelers often assume all neurons to be the same, biology says different. Can this hetereogeneity be a good thing?

Recently I have come across students who are told to use toolboxes to process their data but lack the basics of the corresponding programming language. They then turn to ChatGPT to help them debug the code when it throws an error. #Programming This type of thing worries me for numerous reasons: