UCL neuroscientist investigating the neural basis of contextual decision making. Views are my own.
Prof @uclnpp
lab website: www.macaskilllab.com
UCL profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/5194
also @[email protected]
Andrew MacAskill
vision to navigation via colliculus not V1! very cool stuff from @ruedigersarah.bsky.social in @uclnpp.bsky.social
Hopefully, with this task in hand, we may be in a better position to test these ideas directly, and perhaps prompt a few more arguments!
we were really motivated by the amazing arguments around the idea that the hippocampus might be a relational learning system - led by people like Rudy and Sutherland, and John Pearce - which was never really resolved, even though it has come back into favour more recently.
(and obvs the amazing howard eichenbaum, and too many other to name - apologies if your fave was missed)
Huge congrats to @snierwetberg.bsky.social , David (not on BSky), and @maxwellxchen.bsky.social for their paper!
They developed a mouse task in which relational structure can be isolated from cue identity and reward statistics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
🧠📈🧪 #neuroskyence @uclnpp.bsky.social
📢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/...
NEWS: The ERC Scientific Council has listened to the concerns from members of the research community about changes to the re-submission rules, intended to manage the surge in demand for grants.
The Scientific Council will readjust some of the changes: link.europa.eu/TBqRQJ
I don’t know if you saw the MASSIVE news announced by @erc.europa.eu today: from now on, if you get a B at step 1 you are eligible to apply at N+3(!!!) years. Say you got a B in STG2026 step 1, you thought you could apply in STG2028, but no: only in STG2029! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
We are recruiting a post-doc to study olfactory processing and decision-making in rodents, combining quantitative behavior with neurophysiology.
www.oist.jp/careers/post...
Please share with interested colleagues and trainees 🙏
