How do brains plan actions towards goals? To get at this question we studied mice navigating complex mazes as goals changed on every trial 🧵 Work with @thomasakam.bsky.social @behrenstimb.bsky.social @kristorpjensen.bsky.social now on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Food for thought when describing 'mechanisms' in the brain. I still think 'softer' definitions of mechanism (computational rather than physiological) will help us discover the 'harder' mechanisms. I'll be very surprised if the brain doesn't compute with attractors.

Konrad Kording@kordinglab.bsky.social · last yr.

Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...

My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature! When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️ The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar bit.ly/3HvWSum