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Follow me! One day I’ll have an epiphany and solve the hard problem of consciousness. My revelation will come as I watch my 3 kids grow up, nourished by the food and joy my salary provides. Current job: postdoc @siegellab 🔬🧑💻 Working Memory.
The global neuronal workspace (GNW) is currently the best documented neuroscience mechanism by which conscious processing arises in the human brain — and now Anthropic researchers have discovered a similar workspace inside their large language model ! www.anthropic.com/research/glo...
A global workspace in language models
Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.
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Curious what a representation of "everything" you know might look like? Wonder how you might fill it in? Check out our demo and paper (led by @paxt0n4.bsky.social and now out in @natcomms.nature.com ), or read on to learn more! Demo: context-lab.com/mapper/ Paper: www.doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Knowledge Mapper
An interactive tool that maps out everything you know. Answer questions and watch your personalized knowledge map take shape.
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New paper out in @cp-neuron.bsky.social 🎉 What determines contextual modulation in V1? Why does the visual surround sometimes facilitate and sometimes suppress a neuron's response to its preferred stimulus?
Temporal order in vision can be rewritten. A brief visual mask can reverse the perceived order of sequential stimuli—even without spatial overlap—suggesting a fast temporal signal anchoring visual updating. Full story here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨It seems that PFC is not only the CEO of the brain but is also contributing to vision even in the absence of a task! 🧵 1/4 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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If you are interested in analyzing sharp wave ripples with tools from dynamical system check out poster 3-008 at #Cosyne2026!
CMC Unit@cmc-unit.bsky.social · 7mo ago3-008 poster session 3 (Sat, Mar. 14, 13:15) [in collaboration w/ Zahra Monfared's lab zmonfared.github.io/DSAIlab/]: Anima will present how can we capture dynamics of transient activities such as well-known sharp wave ripples (SWR) based principled tools from dynamical system.
Are you #Coayne2026? Wanna know how we can have a common notion of state in mind and machines and find them in an unsupervised fashion with temporal embeddings based on dynamic similarity check @armanbehrad.bsky.social and @maxschwabe.bsky.social’s poster today, 3-001!
CMC Unit@cmc-unit.bsky.social · 7mo ago3-001, poster session 3 (Sat, Mar. 14, 13:15): @armanbehrad.bsky.social on unsupervised method to find behaviorally relevant internal states from data. We tested it w/ RNN & monkey data doing cognitive tasks & RNN trained with deep RL on a naturalistic plum tracking task.
🚨 🆕 Preprint 🚨 How does the brain represent natural images? Using MEG + multivariate analysis, we disentangle contributions of retinotopy, spatial frequency, shape, and texture Together, our results reveal how visual features jointly and dynamically support human object recognition. link 👇
🚨 Check out our new preprint 🚨 A novel artifact-robust framework to investigate online effects of transcranial current stimulation (tCS). Further, we test this approach in an MEG study 🧲🧠 and find neural interaction between tCS and flickering visual stimulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
An artifact-robust framework for measuring tCS effects during stimulation
Objective: Transcranial current stimulation (tCS) is a promising technique to non-invasively modulate human brain activity. However, stimulation artifacts in EEG and MEG recordings severely hinder the...
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It’s dispiriting to see the future leaders of climate research at institutions like GFDL fired indiscriminately (...) Artificial intelligence cannot compensate for a lack of human intelligence www.science.org/content/arti...
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
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Re-posting is appreciated: We have a fully funded PhD position in CMC lab @cmc-lab.bsky.social (at @tudresden_de). You can use forms.gle/qiAv5NZ871kv... to send your application and find more information. Deadline is April 30. Find more about CMC lab: cmclab.org and email me if you have questions.
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Help bluesky neurohivemind! If you know of any computational / theoretical work modelling neuromodulators please share it 🙏 if you don't, please retweet!
Hey blueskyers, we created a starter pack of the members of the Siegel Lab so you can easily follow our scientific updates 🙂 #scisky #academics #neuroscience Check it out 👇 go.bsky.app/Lyatq2g
Check out our work led by Katrina Quinn, showing that neural representations of abstract choice aren't just due to a requirement to flexibly & rapidly switch between choice-motor mappings. This points to a general role of abstraction in decision-making. #neuroscience www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
