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A Minimal Quantitative Model of Perceptual Suppression and Breakthrough in Visual Rivalry When conflicting images are presented to either eye, binocular fusion is disrupted. Rather than experiencing a blend of both percepts, often only one eye's image is experienced, whilst the other is su...

The final paper of my PhD is now out as a preprint. This is a follow-up piece in series of two companion papers modelling awareness and suppression in a new variant of continuous flash suppression.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.17154

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Don't miss our posters at #BernsteinConference 😍

If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...

What defines a brain state? 🧠
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)

Don't miss today's workshop by two of our members (@armanbehrad.bsky.social‬ and @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social) on brain state!

bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

#BernsteinConference

Very much look forward to our workshop (co-organized with @armanbehrad.bsky.social) today with a great lineup of speakers who combine a wide spectrum of approaches and methods to have a joint definition of brain-behavior state!

bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...

#BernsteinConference

On the Thursday's morning we continue with @colehurwitz.bsky.social, @engeltatiana.bsky.social, @apalmigiano.bsky.social, @acnavasolive.bsky.social, and I (4/4)

We continue with @memming.bsky.social, Justus Kautz, @maryamshanechi.bsky.social (3/4)

On the first day, we start with @neuralnestbird.bsky.social, @mehranahmadlou.bsky.social, @vmsruetten.bsky.social (2/4)

Oops, wrong time in the original post! It will be 15:30 CET 😉

Oops, wrong time in the original post! It will be 15:30 CET 😉

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Sep 25, Thu, 2pm CET), @dengpan.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Rushworth lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!

🚨We believe this is a major step forward in how we study hippocampus function in healthy humans.

Using novel behavioral tasks, fMRI, RL & RNN modeling, and transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS), we demonstrate the causal role of hippocampus in relational structure learning.

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Aug 18, Thu, 2pm CET), Samuel Liebana will tell us about his paper (www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... [joint work w/ @saxelab.bsky.social & @laklab.bsky.social]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social on Aug 28th, Thursday, 2 PM CET, @trinityjchung.com will tell us about her recent paper (👇). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!

Task-Optimized Convolutional Recurrent Networks Align with Tactile Processing in the Rodent Brain

1/ What if we make robots that process touch the way our brains do?
We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data.
New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!

#CCN2025, Poster C160: We present MoDSA – a fully unsupervised method for identifying behaviorally relevant neural states in both biological & artificial systems.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Wanna know how do agents forge better when have a model of their environment? Go to our wonderful collaborator, @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social B90 poster!

We'll also tell you about real foraging, and also fancier RL models ;-) A wonderful collaboration with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social , Peter Dayan and @alleninstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/roxa...

If you are around for #CCN2025, come to B71 poster to know more how we (internally) forage for information and how RL can explain it!

Excited about #CCN2025 and sharing our research in @cmc-lab.bsky.social!

Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see the tweeprint of the first paper here x.com/neuroprincip...).

Paper:
A decision-theoretic model of multistability biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In interested, also check our previous papers: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt... and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (bsky.app/profile/neur...)

We'll also tell you about real foraging, and also fancier RL models ;-) A wonderful collaboration with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social , Peter Dayan and @alleninstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/roxa...

Wanna know about *internal* reinforcement learning? We'll show you seemingly random switches during perceptual multistability is a form informational foraging, is task-modulated & how RL explain them all! Poster B71, Wed 2-5pm, talk to @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...

An unsupervised method to find behaviorally relevant internal states from data. We tested it w/ RNN & monkey data doing cognitive tasks & RNN trained with deep RL on naturalistic plum tracking task. Visit poster C160, Fri 2-5pm, talk to @armanbehrad.bsky.social 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...

We are heading to #CCN2025 in Amsterdam with 3 awesome posters! Thread below 👇

B71, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
B90, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=o...
C169, Fri, 2pm-5pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...

Looking forward to attending #CCN2025 for the first time and presenting the first steps of my postdoc project! If you’re interested in how learning the temporal structure of the environment affects foraging decisions and how we’re testing this in a naturalistic experiment come by poster B90, Wed.

My PhD journey has officially come to end with a Summa Cum Laude, thanks to all the amazing people who’ve supported me along the way, especially my advisors Anna Levina and @engeltatiana.bsky.social!
Which apparently coincided with graduation from a witchcraft and wizardry school 😉

#neuroskyence

In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today in ~2h (July 31st, Thursday, 2 PM CET), Jonathan Kasdin will tell us about his recent @nature.com paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!