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Excited to share a new paper from our lab, just in time for Easter, where we characterize how arousal modulates different excitatory cell-types in the auditory cortex! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Two-photon imaging and pupillometry reveal how arousal modulates excitatory neuron subtypes in auditory cortex.

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Ross Williamson

Pupil-linked arousal heterogeneously modulates cell-type–specific sensory processing

Absolutely incredible work from the legendary SVD himself @stephenvdavid.bsky.social

3mo

Ross Williamson

Yes! Beautiful new work from a dream team!

Incredible work! Kameron is the real deal!

What a sad day. Fare thee well Bobby.

Whooooooo - congratulations to the indomitable @meenakshiasokan.bsky.social!!!!!!

Excited to share some new work from my lab, where we rigorously characterize differences between L5 and L6b extratelencephalic neurons in the auditory cortex!

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Come hang out with us tomorrow AM! #SfN25

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Just in time for Xmas! Check out some new work from my lab looking at noise-invariant representations in excitatory cell-types! Congrats to Tommy Suarez-Omedas! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Ross Williamson

Call it #ExplainableAI or just making sense of complexity. We establish a direct link between DNNs fit to #AuditoryCortex and more intuitive subspace models from the 2000s. Congrats @jeremewingert.bsky.social @satyaparida.bsky.social & Sam Norman-Haignere! #NeuroAI #SensoryNeuroscience rdcu.be/e5gLY

3mo

DNN models of the brain are getting bigger. Are we replacing one complicated system in vivo with another in silico? In new work, we seek the *smallest* DNN models of visual cortex, balancing prediction with parsimony. It turns out these compact models are surprisingly small! rdcu.be/e5H8G

Tributes to Bob Weir have poured in from Billy Strings, Trey Anastasio, Warren Haynes, George Porter Jr., and many more.

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Billy Strings, Trey Anastasio, Warren Haynes Remember Bob Weir

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Neurons in the auditory system must represent behaviorally relevant sounds in the presence of background noise (BN) to support noise-invariant perception and behavior. Although primary auditory cortex...

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Canonical cortical architecture supports the emergence of noise-invariant auditory representations

We are thrilled to announce the 2026 Zara Weinberg Leading Edge Fellows! 40 remarkable postdocs pursuing transformative research in biological/biomedical sciences. This is the 7th Leading Edge cohort and we are so excited to welcome them! www.leadingedgesymposium.org/fellows/

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Stephen David

Nature - Parsimonious deep neural network models can be used for prediction of visual neuron responses.

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Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex

Leading Edge Fellows Program

Excited to announce that our latest paper is now out: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... Here we uncover a simple cortical code for loudness and leverage it reverse sound hypersensitivity disorders in mice. #neuroskyence

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Check out our posters at #SfN25 on Tuesday AM! We have lots to share and would love you all to stop by!

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Benjamin Cowley

Ross Williamson

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Noise damages the cochlea, triggering maladaptive plasticity in the auditory cortex (ACtx) that makes moderate-intensity sounds seem uncomfortably loud. Clayton, Awwad, McGill, et al. show that brief ...

Cortical PV interneurons regulate loudness perception and sustainably reverse loudness hypersensitivity