Laureline Logiaco @LaurelineLogiaco@qoto.org

Please advertise our 3rd annual Autumn School on

Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired AI

25th-31st Oct 2023

in Ulster University, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Hybrid in-person/online

https://www.ulster.ac.uk/faculties/computing-engineering-and-the-built-environment/computing-engineering-intelligent-systems/isrc-cn3-autumn-school

As I scroll through my #ResearchGate feed, here's a bunch of recent (March->May 2023), not-to-be-missed papers and preprints in the #Hippocampus / #Navigation field:

(please add to the list if I missed something!)

Superficial-layer versus deep-layer lateral entorhinal cortex: Coding of allocentric space, egocentric space, speed, boundaries, and corners
Learning to predict future locations with internally generated theta sequences
Hippocampal beta rhythms as a bridge between sensory learning and memory-guided decision-making
Direct Entorhinal Control of CA1 Temporal Coding
Making Sense of the Multiplicity and Dynamics of Navigational Codes in the Brain
The temporal and contextual stability of activity levels in hippocampal CA1 cells
Increased cortical plasticity leads to memory interference and enhanced hippocampal-cortical interactions
Convergence of location, direction, and theta in the rat anteroventral thalamic nucleus
Goal-oriented representations in the human hippocampus during planning and navigation
Oscillation-coordinated, noise-resistant information distribution via the subiculum
Successor-Predecessor Intrinsic Exploration
Transforming a head direction signal into a goal-oriented steering command
On the results of causal optogenetic engram manipulations
Computational models of episodic-like memory in food-caching birds
Spatial learning impairments and discoordination of entorhinal-hippocampal circuit coding following prolonged febrile seizures
Mechanisms of memory storage and retrieval in hippocampal area CA3
Firing rate adaptation affords place cell theta sweeps, phase precession and procession
Three separable roles for context in breaking environmental symmetries for place cells
Mice can learn a cognitive map based on a stable start location and self-motion signals
Grid cell disruption in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease reflects reduced integration of self-motion cues
The hippocampus of the common marmoset is a GPS, but G is for gaze
Contribution of dorsal versus ventral hippocampus to the hierarchical modulation of goal-directed action
Schema cell formation in orbitofrontal cortex is suppressed by hippocampal output
Dynamic and stable hippocampal representations of social identity and reward expectation support associative social memory in male mice
Specific patterns of neural activity in the hippocampus after massed or distributed spatial training
Anchoring of grid fields selectively enhances localisation by path integration
Goal Choices Modify Frontotemporal Memory Representations
Hippocampo-cortical circuits for selective memory encoding, routing, and replay
The subiculum encodes environmental geometry
Object-centered population coding in CA1 of the hippocampus
Boundary vector cells in the goldfish central telencephalon encode spatial information

Congrats to all authors! You rock 🤟​ (and I wish you were advertising your work here on Mastodon 💜​ - if you are, let yourself be known!)

Special thanks to Youcef Bouchekioua for his Researchgate activity!

Disclaimer: I haven't read those (yet)

#NeuroPapers #Neuroscience #NeuroPreprints

There will soon be an open call for 4 year independent research fellowships at Imperial College. If you're interested in me sponsoring/mentoring your application, get in touch now to discuss because our department's deadline is mid July.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/research-office/funder-information/research-fellowships/icrf/

If you had a #Facebook account and resided in the States anytime from May 2007 to Dec 2022, you can now apply for your share of the $725 million #CambrideAnalytica privacy lawsuit settlement.
Deadline is Aug 25
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/20/1170987739/facebook-settlement-lawsuit-privacy

@neuroecology

Looking for #neuroscience? Or #Celegans? or #Drosophila? Or #connectomics? Or #brains, #entomology, #academia, #nativebees? Different place, different approaches – tags here are useful and can be followed.

For accounts, @PhiloNeuroSci selects and comments on neuroscience papers; @eLife and @PLOSBiology publish their papers and digests.

@NicoleCRust challenges us all often; @matrig and @kristinmbranson publish at the intersection of neuroscience and computer science; John @tuthill, @BorisBarbour, Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic , @mtarr @gepasi, @cian, @schoppik, @MatteoCarandini, Dan Goodman @neuralreckoning, Bryan @BWJones, @achterbrain, @CoriBargmann and many others publish on neuroscience among other topics.

On open access and #ScientificPublishing there's Stephen Eglen @sje, Stephen Royle @clathrin

I am living many out ... the list is long. One way to find them is via tags like #neuroscience.

Big accounts like Doctorow @pluralistic, @Carl_Zimmer, @jwz, and @timkmak are here too. There are many more.

There are useful bots like, for me, @flypapers – I wish I could filter for neuro-only papers, but the volume isn't high. Then there're neuroscience-specific servers like synapse.cafe and neuromatch.social – their local timelines may reveal further accounts you may like.

🔔Job alert🔔
Fully funded postdoc position at the brand new Adaptive Control group (Lyon, France). Since more positions will be open soon, a broad range of profiles and background will be considered for this first one!
👉https://www.adaptivecontrol.org/positions
Please RT🔁🙏
#neurotwitter

#Hippocampus neuroscientists:
Do you think that hippocampal #Replay can truly represent a future planning trajectory?
Or that all replay trajectories are actually related to consolidation / generalization / other memory-oriented mechanisms?

Discussion & questions welcome!
1/2
Poll in Post 2 ⤵️​

PSA for #cosyne2023 :

We're going to be changing our #clocks in Montreal this coming Sunday morning at 2AM, moving them forward one hour (i.e. what used to be 2AM will become 3AM)!

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/change/canada/montreal?year=2023

So, remember that when you're planning your schedule for Sunday the 12th!

For #WomensHistoryMonth, I’ll be posting about women making history in neural engineering and systems/computational neuroscience!

This is a multi-year project. You can find past years on twitter (https://twitter.com/neuroamyo/status/1498674431542972416). Join me this year and be prepared for amazing science.

It has been an absolute joy to be part of this exciting collaboration. Thank you Sam Sober and
#simonsfoundation for the opportunity and for bringing together this wonderful group of colleagues and friends. Check out the 🤯 EMG recordings: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.21.529200

#SpikeSorting : where would be the best place (or handle / hashtag) to ask questions about Phy? 🙏​
And if you use it, can you let me know, maybe we can help each other?
(This Phy: https://phy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)

We are hiring a new postdoc in cerebellar imaging! Come join the imaging group that is most serious and obsessed about the most irrelevant (according to some) part of the brain :-)

https://diedrichsenlab.org/open_postdoc_cerebellum.htm

@NicoleCRust
I think some of the most exciting ideas in neuroscience start out as half-baked ideas that where 'not even wrong'.

But I think we should have a time-limit on them. 5 years I'd say. If a new idea still doesn't make any testable prediction after 5 years of being written about and discussed, maybe it wasn't such a good idea after all.

My prime example: "The cerebellum is a forward model for motor control and cognition". A really cool idea, influential, and has motivated tons of experiments. However, it has also become clear that without additional specifying assumptions the idea in itself does not make actual predictions - or can 'predict' anything.

So we need to stop pretending that "cerebellum is a forward model" is a theory - it's not. It's a hazy make-me-feel-good notion that may become testable with additional assumptions - and it is those assumption that form the real theory.

Mind blown yesterday by George Sugihara, who explained that variables can causally influence one another but also be uncorrelated. It happens with a Lorenz attractor, where variables flip between correlated and anticorrelated (so no net correlation). Video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i57udsPKms

These types of mirage correlations that come and go also happens in the wild - such as in the factors that combine to form the red tide and in gene expression networks.