Nosrat Mohammadi

Labeled cortical neurons projecting to the preBötC, the central pattern generator for breathing

A projection atlas of excitatory and inhibitory inputs to the

preBötzinger Complex:

substrates for multimodal breathing control

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Calling all scientists: Support your Iranian colleagues www.nature.com/articles/d41...

7 days of digital black-out in Iran. One week of darkness...
Approximately 20,000 innocent, empty-handed protesters got killed!

Over 12,000 people peacefully protesting against the current Iranian regime have been killed in just one week. These are among the darkest days of 2026. Shame on every country that recognizes the Iranian regime as a legitimate government that murders its own people.

I left Iran in Jan 9th. I was there to visit my family. Meanwhile protests and strikes began.
I left the country with one of the few last flights before the digital blackout in Iran.
I hugged my family and said goodbye in the airport and never heard from them since then. There is zero connection.

I came from Iran yesterday, by taking one of the last flights. The situation in Iran is unimaginable.
There are unofficial reports that over 2000 protestors have been killed by the regime in the span of two nights, while the internet is cut off. The world must see this and must do something! #iran

𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗠𝗥𝗜?
We employed Switching Linear Dynamical Systems to investigate the dynamics of resting-state networks
They are dynamic, not static!
Work with Xiaoyu Zhao with lots of new methods.
Thread.
#neuroskyence
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happy that our article about mu & alpha rhythm waveform shape in development is now finally out in the open: doi.org/10.1162/jocn...

oscillation frequency changes across development (one of the most robust findings in the oscillation world). in this work, we also look at waveform shape changes.

Very excited about this new work from the omnipotent Owen, with me and Ashok Litwin-Kumar! Can we reconcile low- and high-dimensional activity in neural circuits by recognizing that these circuits ~multitask~?
(Plausibly, yes 😊)

Thanks Andrew🙏🎉🍻

I have successfully defended my PhD. You may address all correspondence to me as "Dr."! 🎓 of 🧠!

Instantaneous modulation of gamma oscillation frequency by balancing excitation with inhibition Neurons recruited for local computations exhibit rhythmic activity at gamma frequencies. The amplitude and frequency of these oscillations are continuously modulated depending on stimulus and behavioral state. This modulation is believed to ...

Happy to see more functionality from staying in the balance state. It has also a critical role in the ongoing rhythmic activity.

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Can we achieve nonlinear multimodal neural fusion while also enabling real-time recursive decoding for #BCI?

In our third paper at #NeurIPS2025, we present MRINE, which does exactly that — improving decoding even for modalities w/ distinct timescales & distributions.

👏 Eray Erturk
🧵 Paper Code ⬇️

This paper deserved its spot in my special @zotero.org collection:

𝗗𝘆𝗻𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
Oldie but goodie.
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#neuroskyence

Postdoc & PhD positions
How intrinsic motivation underlies intelligent, open-ended and embodied behavior in natural and artificial agents
Apply if interested
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Cool PI, great lab, vibrant city for science! What else one needs!

Our group is at NeurIPS and EurIPS this year with four papers and one workshop poster. If you are either curious about SBI with autoML, with foundation models, or on function spaces or about differentiable simulators with Jaxley, have a look below 👇 1/11

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I still see much focus on single factor coding in studies of medial temporal cortex. Although our results in primate hippocampus indicates a more mixed code

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This is not a satisfactory answer. I can also say that we can get low-d dynamics from high-d systems, given the low-d inputs and task complexity!

The burden of proof is on the Manifold hypothesis!
A growing number of studies point to the high dimensionality of the observed dynamics under more naturalistic conditions.

www.nature.com/articles/nat...

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

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A figure on spike variablity across different input characteristics from Gerstner's book.

This is slightly different; nevertheless, it is a very good paper.
But I always come back to this study (Mainen and Sejnowski, 1995) for its emphasis on spike timing.

📍Excited to share that our paper was selected as a Spotlight at #NeurIPS2025!

arxiv.org/pdf/2410.03972

It started from a question I kept running into:

When do RNNs trained on the same task converge/diverge in their solutions?
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❤️ Thanks Ali!

Submitting PhD thesis ☑️
Get it out of your system ⭕️

Modern way of thesis writing!

How do we make sense of scientific literature that is growing explosively to the point where no-one could read all the relevant papers, and is contaminated with fraudulent and LLM-generated papers? I think that science isn't currently equipped to deal with this, and we need to. #science #metascience

This is figure 1, which shows shared acoustic–phonetic processing in STG across native and foreign speech.

The human brain responds to the sounds of both familiar and unfamiliar languages in a similar way, according to research in Nature. The findings might guide future approaches to language learning and rehabilitation. go.nature.com/4ppvsHb #Neuroskyence 🧪

Thanks! The talks from second day are also uploaded? I think last time I checked, it wasn't the case!