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Neural representational geometry underlies few-shot concept learning
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The Swartz Program at Harvard University seeks applicants for a postdoctoral fellow in theoretical and computational neuroscience
The Swartz positions are currently filled….
Triggers for mother love
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Haim Sompolinsky deepens ties to Harvard
Haim Sompolinsky has joined Harvard full-time, as a Professor in Residence….
RL at Harvard workshop
Thank you to everyone, especially Paul Masset, for helping to make the CBS NeuroTheory workshop a success! Click on the link below to see some photos Souvik Mandal took at the event….
Learning-induced changes in the neural circuits underlying motor sequence execution
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A Double Dissociation between Savings and Long-Term Memory in Motor Learning
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Pyramidal neuron subtype diversity governs microglia states in the neocortex
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Nature volume 608, pages 750–756 (2022)
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Temporally divergent regulatory mechanisms govern neuronal diversification and maturation in the mouse and marmoset neocortex
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Nature Neuroscience volume 25, pages 1049–1058 (2022)
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Interspecific variation in cooperative burrowing behavior by Peromyscus mice
Nicole L Bedford, Jesse N Weber, Wenfei Tong, Felix Baier, Ariana Kam, Rebecca A Greenberg, Hopi E Hoekstra
Evolution Letters 6, 330-340 (2022)….
A chromosomal inversion contributes to divergence in multiple traits between deer mouse ecotypes
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Cell atlas of the human ocular anterior segment: Tissue-specific and shared cell types
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Conservation and divergence of cortical cell organization in human and mouse revealed by MERFISH
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A preoptic neuronal population controls fever and appetite during sickness
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Joshua Sanes awarded honorary doctorate
Josh was awarded an honorary doctorate degree by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem….
Haim Sompolinsky wins Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize
Haim has been awarded the Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize, along with Larry Abbott, Emery Brown, and Terry Sejnowski “for pioneering contributions to computational and theoretical neuroscience.”…
Tle4 controls both developmental acquisition and postnatal maintenance of corticothalamic projection neuron identity
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NeuroTheory Group page
The CBS NeuroTheory group is gathering steam. Take a look at our growing community!…
On neural network kernels and the storage capacity problem
Jacob A Zavatone-Veth, Cengiz Pehlevan
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A Third Somatomotor Representation in the Human Cerebellum
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Multi-animal Pose Estimation, Identification And Tracking With Deeplabcut
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Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia
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Nature volume 604, pages 502–508 (2022)
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Face neurons encode nonsemantic features
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The role of state uncertainty in the dynamics of dopamine
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Current Biology Volume 32, Issue 5, 14 March 2022, Pages 1077-1087.e9….
Autism genes converge on asynchronous development of shared neuron classes
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Nature volume 602, pages 268–273 (2022)
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Venki Murthy joint research agreement with NTT Research
Harvard and NTT Research have established a joint research agreement to support a collaboration between Venki Murthy and Gautam Reddy on flexible navigation. By combining experiments and theory, they anticipate advances in learning representations from sensory input that support efficient reinforcement learning….
Forgetting generates a novel state that is reactivatable
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Science Advances 11 Feb 2022 Vol 8, Issue 6 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi9071
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A self-supervised domain-general learning framework for human ventral stream representation
Talia Konkle and G. Alvarez…
Retinal ganglion cells expressing CaM kinase II in human and nonhuman primates
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Stretchable Mesh Nanoelectronics for 3D Single‐Cell Chronic Electrophysiology from Developing Brain Organoids
P Le Floch, Q Li, Z Lin, S Zhao, R Liu, K Tasnim, H Jiang, J Liu
Advanced Materials 34 (11), 2106829….