@charlesdgburns.bsky.social
'correlations' is maybe a lazy answer... but I think if a model has predictive power (as seen in the perturbation of head-direction circuits in flies) it's on the right track - if it only correlates it's no good.
Yay for more "write-in experiments" and "bifurcation-grade perturbations"!
Food for thought when describing 'mechanisms' in the brain.
I still think 'softer' definitions of mechanism (computational rather than physiological) will help us discover the 'harder' mechanisms.
I'll be very surprised if the brain doesn't compute with attractors.
My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum