***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits

To make flexible decisions, the brain needs to make inferences between events that were not directly experienced together. In sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events, during periods of rest and sleep, spiking ...

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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...

New research from @tcddublin.bsky.social, led by ADAPT researchers Dr Sara Carta and Prof. Giovanni Di Liberto, has revealed that the brain can briefly process two conversations at the same time when shifting attention between speakers: www.adaptcentre.ie/news-and-eve... @researchireland.ie

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86 news.mit.edu/2026/mit-pro... #neuroscience

MIT Professor Susumu Tonegawa, renowned molecular biologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 86

Susumu Tonegawa, a renowned MIT professor of biology and neuroscience and a Nobel laureate, has died at the age of 86. His discovery of how the immune system generates many different antibodies earned...

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This should be a nice debate at CCN

Check out my critique of prediction studies in NeuroAI (along with Guillermo Puebla, Sushrut Thorat, Konstantinos Tsetsos, and Casimir Ludwig) osf.io/preprints/ps...

How does the human brain extract abstract structure from experience? We show that sensory-independent relational representations emerge in mPFC over several days. Work with @mgarvert.bsky.social and @behrenstimb.bsky.social now out in @currentbiology.bsky.social: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Great to see Mark Stokes getting acknowledged , and also the author senior authors who stepped in, but I’d like to highlight 1st author Michał Wojcik who completed this excellent work from his PhD under such difficult circumstances. He‘s got more good stuff in the pipeline - one to watch

Earl K. Miller@earlkmiller.bsky.social · last mo.

Dimensionality reduction is how the brain acquires knowledge. Cool new paper from the late, great, Mark Stokes. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Congratulations @xjwang.bsky.social on the Braitenberg Award for Computational Neuroscience! He dedicated the award to science without borders! A brilliant scientist and mentor to me and many. My group laugh at how often I tell them “Xiao-Jing would say…”. bernstein-network.de/en/newsroom/...

Fantastic news for neuroAI and @tcddublin.bsky.social . Congratulations Rhodri!

Rhodri Cusack@rhodricusack.bsky.social · last mo.

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for #InfantNeuroAI The project will investigate how human infants learn to understand the visual world, by combining awake infant neuroimaging (fMRI and OPM-MEG) with computational models from AI.

This is such a great opportunity for early career neuroimaging researchers in the Global South and for our centre. Come join our @oxcin.bsky.social community!

Oxford University Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (OxCIN)@oxcin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One more week to apply for OxCIN Global Scholars! 🎯For early-career MRI researchers in the Global South 💻Remote 1-year affiliation with OxCIN 🧠Training in MRI physics & FSL 🌎Build global connections 🗓️Deadline 28 June 2026 🔗https://www.oxcin.ox.ac.uk/about/training/global-scholars Please repost!

A fundamental study of individual variation and contribution of learning to behavioural individuality. Conclusions are supported by compelling, rigorous analysis across a number of experiments in thousands of individuals across genotypes and conditions.

Learning is a fundamental source of individuality

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Work brilliantly led by @will-greedy.bsky.social !

Our latest story is finally in preprint! 🧠✨ How does the brain solve the (hierarchical) credit assignment problem efficiently? Cell-type-specific cortical feedback holds the key, closely approximating backprop. Paper: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Cell-type-specific cortical feedback coordinates hierarchical credit assignment

Learning is thought to arise from synaptic modifications embedded in brain-wide circuits, yet how such circuits coordinate plasticity to support complex behaviour is not known. Inspired by deep learni...

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This might just be my favourite room in the world. Literally awe-inspiring.

Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wow! Just wow! #BookSky

This project builds on work establishing the behaviour done at Champalimaud in Lisbon with @michaelfsp.bsky.social, Beatriz Godinho, Christian Machens, and @ruimcosta.bsky.social : www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Flexible route planning and rapid structure learning by mice in complex environments

Action selection using predictive models of the environment plays a fundamental role in human and animal behaviour, yet is poorly understood at circuit and algorithmic levels. Spatial navigation is an...

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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...

Such important and impactful work ❤️

Rudebeck Lab@rudebecklab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A few years back we started a collaboration to try to work out the mechanisms engaged by DBS for depression. Published today we found that it changes functional networks (expected) but also remodels specific white matter tracts (unexpected). Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A few years back we started a collaboration to try to work out the mechanisms engaged by DBS for depression. Published today we found that it changes functional networks (expected) but also remodels specific white matter tracts (unexpected). Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Deep brain stimulation induces white matter remodeling and functional changes to brain-wide networks - Nature Neuroscience

In a nonhuman primate model, Fujimoto et al. show that deep brain stimulation promotes white matter remodeling and reorganizes brain-wide functional networks, detailing a mechanism through which this ...

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🪼 Your tax dollars paid a scientist to squeeze jellyfish through cheesecloth. Osamu Shimomura processed tens of thousands on an NSF grant to understand why they glow. He found a protein that glowed green under UV light. Called it "green protein." Nobody cared. For decades.

This is such a great PhD opportunity at the cutting edge of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. I'm delighted to finally get to collaborate with Peter and @redmondoconnell.bsky.social . Come join @neuromurphy.bsky.social lab and let's figure out this fascinating puzzle together.

@neuromurphy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Come join the lab @maynoothuniversity.ie and work with me and stellar collaborators @seanfw.bsky.social and @redmondoconnell.bsky.social! Exciting project at the intersection of multi-task RNNs, compositional cognition and human decision neuroscience. Details and how to apply at shorturl.at/FsTQ0

I love this work, check out Lucas' talk on the study as part of the superlab journal club... youtu.be/hCuUE7XEg8o?...

Lucas Tian (Rockefellar)

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Nature@nature.com · 3mo ago

Nature research paper: Neural representation of action symbols in primate frontal cortex go.nature.com/4v1FDED

This is super cool! Monkeys' frontal cortex when drawing: action strokes exhibit 3 features indicating symbolic representation: 1.invariance over low-level motor parameters 2.categorical structure reflecting discrete action types 3.recombination into novel sequences www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Neural representation of action symbols in primate frontal cortex - Nature

A drawing-like task designed to study compositional generalization identifies a specific neural population in the ventral premotor cortex in primates that encodes action symbols.

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New preprint as my first post! "Monosynaptic connections link functionally similar regions in human cortex." We use electrical stimulation + fMRI in epilepsy patients to map whole-brain monosynaptic connectivity at 42 cortical sites. doi.org/10.64898/202... 1/n

Have a look at the programme we have prepared for the workshop and the amazing speakers who will be joining us! 🧠 Including @smfleming.bsky.social @seanfw.bsky.social @neurograce.bsky.social @jolienfrancken.bsky.social @naotsuchiya.bsky.social Applications close 29 May!⏳ mesec.co/event/worksh...

What a fantastic opportunity to do cutting edge and impactful computational psychiatry for your PhD, with an excellent and supportive supervisor in a great academic environment and city.

Prof Rick Adams@drrickadams.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢PhD job alert! A exciting PhD project that involves using MEG and biophysical modelling to try to predict effects of a glutamatergic treatment for psychosis... plus you can develop your own side project. Join our great team! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Our brains don’t think in a steady stream. They rhythmically “scan” different alternatives, using attention cycles to sample and compare choices. Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

Rhythmic sampling of multiple decision alternatives in the human brain - Nature Communications

How humans process competing information when making multi-alternative decisions remains unclear. Here, the authors show that the brain resolves the trade-off between “evaluating within” and “comparin...

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Our first endeavour in jointly explaining human brain-behaviour through gameplay! An impressive effort led by @botoscsabi.bsky.social and @sreejan.bsky.social with the help of a team of collaborators! Parer: arxiv.org/abs/2605.08019

Reason to Play: Behavioral and Brain Alignment Between Frontier LRMs and Human Game Learners

Humans rapidly learn abstract knowledge when encountering novel environments and flexibly deploy this knowledge to guide efficient and intelligent action. Can modern AI systems learn and plan in a sim...

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Botos Csabi@botoscsabi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Jeee 🐦‍⬛ I am very proud of our joint effort with @sreejan.bsky.social on the project "Reason to Play" LRMs show human-like rule discovery, and their hidden states predict human brain activity during gameplay 10x better than previous methods Interactive demo + paper: botcs.github.io/reason-to-pl...

Rogier Mars has a new book on how brains evolved!

NeuroecologyLab@neuroecologylab.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Out in the UK today! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Out in the UK today! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Fox, the Shrew, and You

A leading neuroscientist describes the long evolutionary process that led to the human brain

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🚨 Applications are open! 🚨 Join MESEC’s 2026 Summer Workshop: ⭐️Computational Modelling for Consciousness Science: From Fragmentation to Integration⭐️ 📍 Carcassonne, France 📅 29 Aug–5 Sept 2026 🗓️ Deadline: 29 May 2026 More info and applications here: mesec.co/event/worksh...