Excited to share our latest publication, out now in @natcomms.nature.com !🧠🔍 Accumulating virtual rewards enhances both decision-making accuracy and neural value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex by dynamically shifting a goal-dependent internal reference point. doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Balma Serrano Porcar
@balmaserrano.bsky.social
PhD student at Brain Circuits and Behavior Lab, IDIBAPS. Interested in working memory, decision-making and automated training systems.
So delighted to participate in the Neural Networks of Memory Integration symposium at #Fens2026! Paula Gómez Sotres, Marta Barrera Conde, Sheena Josselyn, and I will explore how neural circuits in rodents encode, maintain, and dynamically reshape memory representations. 🗓️ July 9 at 15:40 in Hall C
#FENS2026 is just around the corner, and I’m thrilled that this year it’s taking place in my beloved Barcelona! If you’re interested in neural dynamics of choice selection and maintenance in short-term memory, stop by my poster on Tuesday morning (PS01-07AM-305) Looking forward to seeing you there!
Next week I will present online our work on the Training Village at the Behavior Forum. It is a pleasure to be part of this community! 🗓️Save the date: March 12, 12:30–14:00 CET 🔗Zoom link: helsinki.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
I am very excited to share my first preprint🎉 The pandemic kicked off strongly during the first year of my PhD, and I had to stop the behavioral experiments when mice were starting to understand the task. At the BCB Lab, this showed us that training automation could be a real game changer (🧵1/10)
The Training Village: an open platform for continuous testing of rodents in cognitive tasks https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.12.698970v1
🚨Excited to share my first @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social🚨 with the amazing Smith lab, @jbarbosa.org and Albert Compte who made this work possible. We show that 🐒prefrontal hemispheres combine redundancy (for precision) & weak connections (for capacity) for supporting spatial working memory (WM). 1/🧵
Redundant, weakly connected prefrontal hemispheres balance precision and capacity in spatial working memory https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.15.633176v1
Since no one did it, here is a list of people doing research on working memory. The list is admittedly biased (based on the people I follow), so please help: don't hesitate to let me know of someone missing. I will happily follow and add them to the list! Please RT🙏 go.bsky.app/8ZsVgMo