New beautiful normative/theory paper from Ethan Bromberg-Martin with Josh Merel
Why are we curious? What is the origin of our non instrumental seeming information preference?
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
happy 2 see Dr Okihide Hikosaka elected to NAS
Okihide has done an amazing amount of true discovery
Think big contributions to understanding of mechanisms of saccadic control, chunking and skill formation, reinforcement learning, and more!
Also a great mentor and friend.
back at revising this beast on astrocytes and learning....
I am deeply grateful to the Bloomberg Endowment for supporting both our research and broader vision! We hope that our work will contribute to next generation of psychiatry treatments, bci, and ai development.
Great Bita
Nature research paper: Integrator dynamics in the cortico-basal ganglia loop for flexible motor timing
go.nature.com/4oX2rmq