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.
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...
! New paper from the lab !
How does novelty impact value-based decision making ?
What are the circuits and what mechanisms do they implement?
Congratulations to Dr. Takaya Ogasawara and team
www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
How do non-neuronal CNS cells called astrocytes contribute to cognition & computation?
See our preprint
Headed by my students Julia Pai and Fatih Sogukpinar, also working with Hiratani, Pignatelli, Papouin, Frank, and Ching labs. This was a huge effort
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Congratulations to my great students Arman Hatami and Romina Aalishah on their new study of machine unlearning and forgetting accepted.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.15166
This has had clear implications for ML and neuroscience (albeit from different angles), and we continue this work in both disciplines….
back at revising this beast on astrocytes and learning....
Great Bita
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.
Nature research paper: Integrator dynamics in the cortico-basal ganglia loop for flexible motor timing
go.nature.com/4oX2rmq