The Summer School 'Primate Cognitive Neuroscience' (PCN 2024) is happening again (July 28 – August 09, 2024) in Bad Bevensen, Germany. Last 2 times were a great experience for ~25 PhD students/postdocs & ~20 faculty! To apply, check out: dpz.eu/index.php?id=4… (Deadline: May 5)

I just wrote to my congressperson and both Senators with the attached message (go to their web sites, they have a link to take comments). Please consider doing the same.

This is unbelievable. How can a country that cares about the future begrudge $300 million to unlock the secrets of the mind and cure the most devastating ailments of the soul? This is 0.0035% of the federal budget. If you make 100k a year, this works out to $3.50. A coffee to…

New preprint where we explore using eye data as a training signal for adaptive myoelectric interfaces. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The gist: gaze data could let algorithms adapt in less structured tasks by giving a proxy for what users are trying to do.

More of a breakdown soon!

Our new Pac-Man paper is now on bioRxiv. In the new study, we created a quantitative model to study and compare how monkeys and humans play the game. (1/n) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

brainlife.io from the Pestilli lab (Franco Pestilli) is a one-stop cloud platform for data management, visualization, and analysis in human neuroscience. It is web-based and provides access to a variety of tools in a reproducible and reliable manner.
nature.com/articles/s4159…

Today is #WorldParkinsonsDay !

#AnimalResearch has led to significant advances in treating tremors & motor problems in people with #Parkinsons – and contributing to progress towards a cure.

18 months ago, there was the Nth re-run of 'are oscillations real?' Twitter debate, in which Dan Levenstein referenced a dinky rant I wrote 2 years before THAT

now, we have a real review/perspective paper—feel free to cite in future re-runs of this debate aka literally right now

NHP models are irreplaceable in scientific research! 🐒🔬 From advancing medical breakthroughs to understanding complex behaviors, these animals contribute immensely to our understanding of biology. Let's continue to support ethical and responsible research for the betterment of…

The Kilosort4 paper is now published Nature Methods. We put a lot of work into building and properly documenting all things Kilosort (including for older versions). w/ Carsen Stringer @[email protected] #kilosort

paper: nature.com/articles/s4159…
code: github.com/MouseLand/Kilo…

🚨🚨🚨Check out this amazing work by Blake Madruga and Peyman Golshani! Expanding the UCLA Miniscope Team to multi-photon approaches!

New paper in our lab led by Andrew Alegria and Amey Joshi published in Genetics Society of America . Fun collab with Daryl Gohl and Bischof group @umnme College of Sci & Eng We also made it to the cover! academic.oup.com/genetics/artic…

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Happy 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans visibility day . Trans lives are not negotiable neither up for debate by anyone whatsoever

New paper!
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Really excited about this new work from Bo Shen (Bo Shen ), underscores the fundamental importance of understanding the role of different sources of variability on the behavioral outcome of a computation.

Retinal motion statistics during natural locomotion. elifesciences.org/articles/82410…

Pleased our study is now published. We catalog the structures and cell types innervated by corticospinal neurons (CSNs) of forelimb motor cortex. This research lays an anatomical foundation for many future functional studies from the lab.
cell.com/cell-reports/f…

The recording of my talk on neural timescales across the mouse brain CosyneMeeting workshops together with many other wonderful talks are now available.

Many thanks to Wayne Soo Aldo Battista & Tatiana Engel for organizing such an exciting workshop!

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New Preprint! From Sangkyu Son Seng Bum Michael Yoo Maya Wang

State-dependent Online Reactivations for Different Learning Strategies in Foraging

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Who's got MR technical skills - come join us - lots of positions - lots of roles! Get on it!