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...
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A foundation of NIH is peer review.
Rotating panels of external scientists hugely influence which projects get funded.
As it shld be, b/c scientists, not politicians, are best-placed to choose the most promising science. Changes to peer review… 1/
Simulation-based inference russpoldrack.substack.com/p/simulation... - the latest in my Better Code, Better Science series
Authored by anonymous current and former NIH workers with experience in peer review, this is an overview of all the changes to NIH's peer review over the last 18 months.
Some under-cited SES work relevant to new discourse. My former grad students Teagan and Ethan found aberrant recruitment of striatum during reward anticipation mediates the rel’p between environmental deprivation & attention problems in ABCD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
What matters most for childhood brain organization?
We analyzed 649 variables.
The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers.
Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES.
In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Congrats to @masudhusain.bsky.social on being elected to FRS!
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to [email protected]
We're excited to share our latest profile! Dr. Suzanne Haber studies the circuits underlying reward-based learning & decision making, and how those circuits can be therapeutically targeted to treat disease.
Follow the link below to learn more! #WomenInNeuro
www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...
Implementing motivated behaviors on the basis of prior reward is central to adaptive human functioning, but aberrant reward-motivated behavior is a core feature...
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Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed. Our TICS piece explores how this works.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How can we acquire new knowledge and skills on a daily basis while remaining the same person?
I'm excited to share our new preprint led by @hyejinjadelee.bsky.social & Ally Dworetsky tackling this question, just in time for #OHBM2026:
doi.org/10.64898/202...
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#neuroskyence #PsychSciSky
postlab.psych.wisc.edu
Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
Brain regions exhibit dynamic yet highly coordinated activity patterns that form large-scale functional networks measurable through resting-state correlations. While their association with fluctuating...
Professor Masud Husain FMedSci FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a neurologist and neuroscientist whose research focuses on understanding human cognition and its disorders. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/masud-husain-38121/
