Ever wondered what different layer-5 PC types do for learning? Our work suggests that one (IT PCs) does representational learning whereas the other (ET PCs) encodes representational value! A great exp-theory collaboration with the Larkum and Takahashi's labs!

What if… spontaneous neural activity 🧠 reflects the baseline rumblings of a brainwide dynamical system initialized for learning? We find that the rumblings have macroscopic properties like those emerging from linear symmetric, critical systems 🧵 #neuroscience #neuroAI www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky 1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research Open Access journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...

Hi BlueSky fam, for my first post and to celebrate our recent paper being physically published I thought I’d do a summary thread! This has been my most favourite (and toughest) work to date. Please help share around!! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac... (Reach out if you can’t access)

Psilocybin slows and reduces complexity of neural dynamics in medial prefrontal cortex. New paper with Ross Purple, Rahul Gupta, Matt Jones & Co.

We were able to detect the slow-down of neural dynamics by adapting a measure that @macshine.bsky.social Brandon Munn and team developed for assessing energy landscapes in fMRI data (itself building on work by Bill Bialek) to use with our Neuropixels data. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Conserved multiscale brain organization across five phylogenetically diverse species • Unifies scale-dependent theories of brain function, balancing efficiency and resiliency Enables flexible cross-scale reconfigurations of neural activity during behavior www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... #neuroscience