Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai
Faculty @sinaiccp.bsky.social @sinaibrain.bsky.social
PI, Dynamics of Cognition and Affect Lab (www.radulesculab.org)
https://www.angelaradulescu.com/
🌈 (she/they)
Angela Radulescu
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How do brains plan actions towards goals?
To get at this question we studied mice navigating complex mazes as goals changed on every trial 🧵
Work with @thomasakam.bsky.social @behrenstimb.bsky.social @kristorpjensen.bsky.social now on BioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Fast forward to this new preprint, led by the phenomenal @christinamaher.bsky.social , bridging a computational view of attention and learning with the human sEEG recordings made possible by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social's lab.
Angela Radulescu
I spent most of my PhD trying to pin down that interaction.
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Then I found a short 2010 CogSci paper by Gershman, Cohen & Niv laying out very elegantly how these functions could interact. That pretty much sealed what I wanted to study (good thing @yaelniv.bsky.social was hiring!).
In 2011, my interests in cognitive neuroscience converged on one stubborn intuition: it made no sense that how the brain learns and how it pays attention should be two fundamentally different processes.
What I never imagined was getting to test those ideas with sEEG electrodes inside the human brain -- recording from neural populations in real time, fast enough to see attention and learning unfold in tandem, trial by trial.
Angela Radulescu
And yet, that's how they were studied: different tasks, different research traditions, often different models.
