Elliot Smith

A cyberkinetics neural signal processor with national intruments BNC breakout boxes and a jumble of cables.

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A neural manifold view of the brain - Nature Neuroscience Recent advances in neuroscience have revealed how neural population activity underlying behavior can be well described by topological objects called neural manifolds. Understanding how nature, nurture...

Check out our new review/perspective (w/ @juangallego.bsky.social & Devika Narain) on neural manifolds in the brain! It was a lot of fun to think through these ideas over the past couple of years, and I'm excited it's finally out in the world!

🔗: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
📄: rdcu.be/ex8hW

We're thrilled to resume our monthly seminar on neural traveling waves next week with Michael Wenzel! Join us on
August 5th at 12-1p ET!

Learn about & be aware of power dynamics and don't be a bully

We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication.

At first, what we found was very confusing!

But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks

doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736

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A mountain lake with reflection

A backpacker and tent in the forest

View from an alpine pass

Three varieties of wildflowers

Unita mountains timeline cleanse: Happy Friday!

Bahasa Melayu would be better, based on this argument

This summer my lab's journal club somewhat unintentionally ended up reading papers on a theme of "more naturalistic computational neuroscience". I figured I'd share the list of papers here 🧵:

The development of aperiodic neural activity in the human brain - Nature Human Behaviour This study establishes how aperiodic activity, a ubiquitous signal linked to neural noise, develops in localized brain regions and illuminates the development of prefrontal control during adolescence in the development of attention and memory.

This study establishes how aperiodic activity, a ubiquitous signal linked to neural noise, develops in localized brain regions and illuminates the development of prefrontal control during adolescence in the development of attention and memory.

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Awesome! Congrats! 🎉

Oh dang! What’s next for you, Becca?

Sounds like an exponential reproducibility crisis

This preprint is now out @braistimjournal.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congrats!

We @smfleming.bsky.social, Marion Rouault and @seowxft.bsky.social and I) have posted a reply osf.io/preprints/ps... to a preprint that recently raised concerns about the validity of associations between mental health and metacognition from online studies. I hope you can take the time to read it.

Huge congrats!!!

APHA is gathering grants by TOMORROW NOON for Phase 2 of their lawsuit vs. NIH which regards NIH **applications** that were unfairly pulled from review, mishandled, or delayed from being awarded due to DEI issues.

To add your grant to this lawsuit, become an APHA member & submit this survey:

YouTube video by Blackrock Neurotech Human Single-Neuron Dynamics Under Theta Burst Stim | Justin Campbell

Check out Justin's presentation on his innovative work from our lab characterizing single human neuron responses to theta burst stimulation of the basolateral amygdala, in collaboration with his home lab in the psych department.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhSJ...

New preprint from the team at BCM Neurosurgery, led by superstar neuroscientist / neurosurgeon Vigi Katlowitz! “Attention is all you need (in the brain): semantic contextualization in human hippocampus” 🧵

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy Juneteenth🤎✨️

Thank you! Supporting biomedical research is the right thing to do for clear ethical, economic, and practical reasons. Appreciate your leadership and efforts!

No way. Mike Lee is clearly a giant troll (etc…) who is gerrymandered into office every 6 years.

A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward - Nature Neuroscience Sosa et al. find that hippocampal neural activity in mice encodes both environmental location and experience relative to rewards, spanning distances far from reward, through parallel and flexible popu...

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anti-ICE protesters march through downtown Salt Lake City

FULL STORY: bit.ly/4kWPBlE

@neurokim.bsky.social TOH!

I taught a graduate course on executive function (EF) in the spring. Before I forget, I thought I'd tell you about the readings students liked the best (at the end of the semester, I asked students to vote for their favorite papers, excl. any of mine). Here are the top vote getters. 🧵 (1/6)

👀 The whole brain 7T "natural scenes dataset" now has mental imagery data!

NSD-Imagery: A Benchmark Dataset for Extending fMRI Vision Decoding Methods to Mental Imagery

Conference paper:
goo.gl/scholar/wPx1HJ

Dataset:
naturalscenesdataset.org

BCI Engineer | Science Corporation Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

neuroscience and eng friends, I’m hiring for science’s nascent BCI team! come work with me 🧠🧪👩‍🔬

science.xyz/careers/bci-...