The basal ganglia output is often framed as a motor gate: corticostriatal circuits select an action, then GPi/SNr-thalamus helps release it. In humans, we find this same pathway carries cognitive variables embedded in movement signals—and even produces learning-relevant signals after feedback. 1/10
The ‘neat’ and ‘messy’ in task-dependent neural geometry and computation
by Cheng Xue @cxue.bsky.social & Gouki Okazawa @gouki-okazawa.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Excited to share our new review in Trends in Neuroscience with Gouki Okazawa @gouki-okazawa.bsky.social :
"The 'neat' and 'messy' in task-dependent neural geometry and computation"
where we reviewed what we know about the 'task-manager' in the brain.
A thread 👇
Made an AI-curated primate ephys literature database covering ~10000 papers with recording brain regions and target functions. Maybe useful for something.
okazawagouki.github.io/NHPLit/repor...
Task-similarity dependent reconfiguration of compositional modules and geometry in frontal cortex
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
New review with Cheng Xue at U Chicago @cxue.bsky.social in Trends [email protected]! We discuss the neural geometry of task-dependent computation: disentangled encoding, RNN modeling, switch cost, etc.
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
Thanks for putting ours, Joao. Hope you’re doing well!