With the help of other members of the team, Patrick and Hao discovered a fundamental new mechanism by which the thalamic reticular nucleus helps keep track of changing statistical patterns in the environment to better infer the state of the world. Great work all!
Lukas Ian Schmitt
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Extremely proud of the work of Patrick Hosford and Hao Mei that just came out in Neuron: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
How does the brain navigate uncertainty in a dynamic environment? In this study, Hosford,
Mei, et al. show that computations implemented across a network of thalamic and cortical
circuits continuously...