OK I guess I'll do an #introduction!
I'm Ethan Blackwood and I'm a PhD student at UPenn with Alex Proekt studying how neuronal population dynamics in the cortex change as animals (mice) adopt new strategies or switch between them when learning a complex (for mice) decision task.
I'm also interested in AI and have done some investigation into the dynamics of RNNs learning to make decisions, although I'm taking a break from that for now. And I've been lucky to do some work on artificial network concept learning with @annaschapiro.
My feelings about #mastodon are changing day to day - it's definitely different from "the bird site" and requires an adjustment, but I'm excited for the potential!
@ebbwood @annaschapiro I’m brand new to Mastodon too and I’m incredibly interested in this topic! I know annoyingly little about neurology, but I recently discovered I have sensory processing issues that manifest as serious challenges with attention, anxiety, etc. Context switching for me is like driving right into a black puddle in MarioKart. Your topic seems like it contributes both to forwarding AI engineering but also to formulating hypotheses to test to improve our understanding our own context switching processing. Not sure where else I could’ve run into it at this stage. Mastodon seems quite okay for now!
