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...
Our new paper is out this week in Nature Neuroscience! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We built a BCI that works with the brain's natural geometry — and we found that people could learn to play a video game with their brains in <1 hr of training. This efficiency is groundbreaking & here's why:
🎉New positions!🎉
Postdoc and Research technician openings in our lab @yale for computational psychiatry research. Technician position a great stepping stone to grad school. More info: rutledgelab.org/positions
Work w/big data from our smartphone apps and large clinical samples happinessquest.app
Did you know that this is the first year the Society for Neuroeconomics conference will be in California?
Seize the day, left coasters! Decide to come talk about decisions with us... and keynote speaker, the brilliant Carlos Brody!
neuroeconomics.org/2026-meeting/
Computational models are a key part of science but discovering new ones is hard!
DataDIVER discovers concise models from data, which surface new mechanistic ideas and clear predictions for future experiments
From Google Deepmind Neuroscience Lab + collaborators
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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📣🔥 Early bird registration now open for 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference cpconf.org at Yale July 14-16.
Late-breaking abstracts now open (deadline: May 8)
Trainee pre-conference (July 13) registration open (free!)
See you in New Haven! #CPConf2026
Full Study in Nature Neuroscience 👉
#DeepBrainStimulation induces white matter remodeling & functional changes to brain-wide networks - Satoka Fujimoto, Atsushi Fujimoto, Catherine Elorette, @russbeneuro.bsky.social, Helen Mayberg, @rudebecklab.bsky.social, et al. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Brilliant! In part b/c it holds up happiness as an illustration of what’s what 😉. But more seriously: IF YOUR SO CALLED THEORY DOESN‘T MAKE TESTABLE PREDICTIONS IT’S A FRAMEWORK. #TheoriesAreTheGoal
Excellent example of an influential framework-not-a-theory here:
experimentology.io/002-theories...
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles, writes @tonyzador.bsky.social. AI is now offering neuroscience the same deal. #neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/machine-lear...
Busch et al. use nonlinear neural manifolds to help humans gain rapid control over a noninvasive brain–computer interface, allowing them to learn how to play a video game with real-time fMRI neurofeed...
In a nonhuman primate model, Fujimoto et al. show that deep brain stimulation promotes white matter remodeling and reorganizes brain-wide functional networks, detailing a mechanism through which this ...
www.nature.com
Prediction without understanding sustained astronomy through a thousand years of epicycles. Artificial intelligence is now offering neuroscience the same deal.
What is a psychological theory? Here's our take on this tricky and controversial question in this week's Experimentology chapter summary.
Many things called "theories" in psychology aren't actually theories — they're frameworks.
🧵 experimentology.io
