Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠

After a long morning on campus testing children for my PhD - now time to chill out and restring the Squier Strat mini.

Determined to learn how to play 'i think about you all the time' from the latest Deftones album

Perfect indoorsy weather for strumming ☺️

Task learning increases information redundancy of neural responses in macaque visual cortex How does the brain optimize sensory information for decision-making in new tasks? One hypothesis suggests that learning reduces redundancy in neural representations to improve efficiency, whereas anot...

New study finds learning makes neurons work better together, not independently. Tracking the visual cortex showed that as skills improve, neurons share more info, blending vision with expectation to build a flexible, inference-based model of the world.

#NeuroSkyence

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I love this very much.

Remembering is not a uniquely human thing

I kind of sympathised with Chalamet at first. Having been a pro opera singer, the form has struggled for ages. And yet...

When I heard La Bohême for the first time as a 15 year old, I was blown away. If he doesn't get it, well, it's his loss frankly

If Timothee Chalamet wants to make being a reverse-snob part of his deal, whatever. Be a child, you know?

But at a time when arts funding and support are so imperiled, it would be nice not to lead with your contempt for wide swaths of the arts during your campaign to have your own art recognized.

Pre-movement respiration–action coupling is specific to self-initiated action: Evidence for action alignment with ongoing breathing

Hiroshi Shibata, Hideki Ohira

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

New on MPI TalkLing: “The Average Brain Doesn’t Exist”. Lilit Dulyan explains why the idea of a single “typical” brain misses what makes our brains uniquely variable, and how researchers still make sense of all that diversity. 👇
www.mpi-talkling.mpi.nl?p=2854&lang=en

Every time you experience something new, your brain faces a decision: Should it update an existing memory or create a new one?

In our new paper in @sfnjournals.bsky.social #JNeurosci, we isolate that exact decision, moment-by-moment during learning 🧵

Excited to share that our MEG project is now out in Current Biology! We show how visual content codes relate to motor oscillations in telling time.

Huge thanks to Quirin Gehmacher, Peter Kok, Matt Davis and Clare Press (bsky links below).🧵

authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Why conversation is more like a dance than an exchange of words www.mpi.nl/news/why-con...

Next session of #IRCA Aphantasia Online Talk #19 is next Tuesday the 10th March at 11am (CET/Paris), by Derek H. Arnold @visnerd.bsky.social (University of Queensland).
Title: The hopeless quest for a reliable objective metric of visual imagery.
More details here: jianghao-liu.github.io/irca/

So so excited to see them live in May

The latest version of this preprint "Bodily Rhythms Gate Action–Perception Coupling" that addresses the coupling between action, perception and interoception. Thanks @alexgalvezpol.bsky.social @micahgallen.com Lucas Naranjo for a very interesting collaboration on this topic osf.io/preprints/ps...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism f...

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses

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

#neuroskyence

Ooh this looks interesting!

That looks so cool!!

This book should be essential reading for anyone who has anything to do with AI. Well researched, with proper reference to recent history, revealing the insane underlying philosophies that enthusiastic techies & EA advocates buy into in the name of techno optimism.

We think of white matter as the highways of the brain. But when we followed development along those highways, we were surprised. The journey is more complex than we thought. My final PhD paper, “Two Axes of White Matter Development”, is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! 🛣️🧠✨
🔗 bit.ly/wm2axes

That's just insane

So impressed that you took the time to do this! Thank you 🤩

This is an excellent and often misunderstood point. It's not AI which is replacing workers. It's CEOs replacing workers with AI to drive higher profits. But sectors will eat themselves in the process

Must find you a speaking gig in Brisbane 😎 Sun never sleeps here!

although I remember when I lived in the UK how incredible it felt when spring finally arrived

I'm going to spend some time this week digging in, would love to help develop it further - will email you ☺️

Ooh a lot can happen in six months

We do in Australia. It's in fact compulsory to vote here and we must register first to vote, and are subsequently fined if we don't vote.

Wow, Micah - this looks so exciting. Can't wait to check it out - my immediate thought is will it be possible to integrate this package with Biopac equipment instead?

Today I am excited to introduce respyra - an open-source Python toolbox for respiratory tracking experiments in interoception research!

Now on PyPI (pip install respyra) with a preprint on PsyArXiv:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

GitHub: github.com/embodied-com...

Enjoyed reading this on structural representations as analog by @coreymaley.net - gave me a few aha moments in regards to faces

Incidentally part of the same volume which includes 👇@meganakpeters.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @fintanmallory.com

philosophymindscience.org/index.php/ph...

Jack Dorsey to cut 4,000 jobs due to AI advances at Square parent Block Shares in company increased over 20% as investors were encouraged by CEO’s assertion that cuts will drive profits

I don't regularly post about AI. But this is grim. And it's only just beginning

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

If you didn't see Citrini's thought exercise last week, it tracks moves like Dorsey's as the prelude (hattip @russpoldrack.org for sharing)

www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic?ut...