Congratulations to Marge on this award, which she shares with Winrich Freiwald, Nancy Kanwisher, and Doris Tsao! Follow the link to read more….
Catherine Dulac made Officer of the Légion d’honneur
Congratulations to Catherine who, having been appointed in 2022, was awarded the medal in Boston on October 26, 2024!…
Jacob Zavatone-Veth receives NIH Director’s Early Independence Award
Congratulations to Jacob, a Junior Fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows! The award will fund his work on recurrent neural network theory. Follow the link to more information….
How the tempo of sequence memories can be set by learning rules
Farrell M and Pehlevan C. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2024 Aug 6;121(32):e2309876121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2309876121…
Glutamate inputs send prediction error of reward, but not negative value of aversive stimuli, to dopamine neurons
Amo R, Uchida N, Watabe-Uchida M. Neuron. 2024 Jan 22:S0896-6273(23)00979-0. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.12.019. PMID: 38278147…
GSAS highlights Buckner lab student
Wendy Sun, an MD/PhD student in BBS, is profiled for her work in the CBS Neuroimaging Core…
Ölveczky lab paper makes the cover of October Nature Neuroscience
Describes circuit mechanisms of complex motor sequences…
Rapid synaptic and gamma rhythm signature of mouse critical period plasticity
Quast KB, Reh RK, Caiati MD, Kopell N, McCarthy MM, Hensch TK
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2023 Jan 10;120(2):e2123182120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2123182120…
Neural representational geometry underlies few-shot concept learning
Ben Sorscher, S. Ganguli, H. Sompolinsky
DOI:10.1073/pnas.220080…
Haim Sompolinsky deepens ties to Harvard
Haim Sompolinsky has joined Harvard full-time, as a Professor in Residence….
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.”…
Face neurons encode nonsemantic features
Alexandra Bardon, Will Xiao, C. Ponce, M. Livingstone, G. Kreiman
PNAS 2022 Vol. 119 No. 16 e2118705119
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Forgetting generates a novel state that is reactivatable
He Liu, Taihong Wu, Xicotencatl Gracida Canales, Min Wu, Myung-Kyu Choi, Fengyun Duan, J. Calarco, Yun Zhang
Science Advances 11 Feb 2022 Vol 8, Issue 6 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abi9071
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Tracking neural activity from the same cells during the entire adult life of mice
Siyuan Zhao, Xin Tang, Sebastian Partarrieu, Shiqi Guo, Ren Liu, Jaeyong Lee, Zuwan Lin, Jia Liu
bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.10.29.466524
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