Post-Doctoral Researcher at UCSD studying adaptive memory processing. For all my science: https://josephmsaito.github.io/
Joey Saito
Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works.
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Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS!
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New results! The prefrontal cortex uses a compact, low-dimensional “coding space”. Information can be captured in just 3–6 dimensions. The brain compresses what we remember.
Low-dimensional prefrontal representations of objects during working memory
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#neuroscience
Information normally considered task-irrelevant drives decision-making and affects premotor circuit recruitment www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The Naturalistic Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab is launching at UT Austin and is looking for founding members at all levels, including lab manager, PhD students, and postdocs! #NeuroJobs
We will study human brain🧠 and memory & attention, using fMRI and modeling.
thesonglab.github.io
1/ We work hard to factor "noise" out of behavior. But the brain doesn't.
Strip away noise and you may miss what the brain evolved to do
I wanted to share this pre-Bluesky paper where we found premotor (M2) corticostriatal circuits encode a broad history of behavior, beyond just action + reward 👇
Neural synchrony between prefrontal and visual cortex supports visual working memory www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
A thalamus–brainstem attractor network drives history-biased decisions www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🚨Paper alert!🚨 Across 5 expts, @mileritayar.bsky.social's new JEPG paper shows that people explicitly avoid switching between attention control states. Using demand selection tasks, we find that people don't just avoid cognitive conflict, but also switching between congruent and incongruent trials.
