What happens in your brain when you make up your mind?
Postdoc (soon faculty at U. of Utah) @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and ex-grad student (now Shanahan Fellow at Allen Institute) @timkimd.bsky.social have some answers in this new paper out in Nature!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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19.09.2025 13:01 — 👍 51 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 2
Wow it's so nice to hear the work made an impact! And yes, we definitely verged on the poetic in the writing at time! Would love to hear more about what came up in your discussion.
21.09.2025 21:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Always exciting when someone reads one's work! Thank you for the interest and the quotes @ulisespereirao.bsky.social
And a shout out here to Adrian Bondy, @juliecharlton.bsky.social and @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social, the wonderful co-first-authors who led the work.
Adrian is on the job market!
20.09.2025 23:44 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Brain-wide coordination of decision formation and commitment
Neural correlates of a subject’s upcoming choice in decision making tasks are remarkably widespread throughout the brain, but how these brain-wide signals are coordinated remains unknown. Do brain reg...
Friday’s AIND JC lead by Shawn Olsen and I on the Brody lab preprint ran 90+ min, unusual. Nice paper, spirited discussion. Make a clear argument that to grasp behavior we need multiregional, multi-neuron, simultaneous single-trial data. Below quotes from the paper.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
20.09.2025 22:50 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 1
I'll be participating in this, giving a talk on methods for using multi-region Neuropixels to observe the brain's hidden conversation during cognition. Great learning opportunity for those new to Neuropixels.
21.09.2025 21:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On my way to NYC to participate in this. Should be an exciting day! Looking forward to speaking in a good session on decision making.
21.09.2025 21:19 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
This is an important paper that will impact the field of systems neuroscience profoundly. I am glad to have contributed to it in a small way. Congrats to @thomas-zhihao-luo.bsky.social and @timkimd.bsky.social
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