Steve Fleming @smfleming@qoto.org
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL
| Author #KnowThyself (2021)
| Dad of two mini humans 🇬🇧🇭🇷
Joined Nov 2022
RT @SelinaWray
This is so exciting & an incredible day for Alzheimer’s research. It’s far from perfect - modest effects and risks - so lots to do and research still needed - but after so many failures and controversies it’s nice to feel the buzz of optimism again! https://twitter.com/bbcworld/status/1597839164300578817
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1/10) Can we find a label-free model selection algorithm in Self-supervised learning (#SSL) for #vision?
Our #NeurIPS2022 paper, α-ReQ, presents just such an #algorithm based on the structure of #representations in the #neocortex!
This is work w/ Kumar Agrawal (#Berkeley), Arnab Kumar Mondal and Arna Ghosh (#McGill/#Mila). 🧵
paper: https://openreview.net/forum?id=ii9X4vtZGTZ
blog: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~krishna/blog/nn/ssl.html
RT @KordingLab
Aligning latent representations of neural activity [Review] https://rdcu.be/c0zz2 With @evadyer we ask how recordings across times, conditions or animals can be aligned. No supervised signals needed! Try the codes here: https://nerdslab.github.io/neuralign/
RT @bendemartino
What a wooden chair has in common with bottle of whiskey? Here few thoughts from @aure_cor and me on our forthcoming paper in @TrendsCognSci. A special thanks to @LindseyDrayton a truly terrific editor.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661322002819
RT @PF_Hitchcock
"Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, while on the run, purportedly burned two million dollars in banknotes to keep his daughter warm. A stark reminder that ... goals can quickly change, forcing us to reassess and modify our values on-the-fly"
Amazing way to start a paper https://twitter.com/bendemartino/status/1597217863101972481
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Stumbled across Thomas Bayes's grave in Bunhill fields burial grounds on my way to visit the Royal Statistical Society in London. How appropriate :)
Looking forward to welcoming @jorgemlg to give this week's Consciousness Club on "The Varieties of Metacognition" - should be fun!
*Note later time* of 3pm-430pm GMT, Wed 30th Nov. For more info and how to join see http://metacoglab.org/consciousness-club - all welcome!
@WCHN_UCL @EP_UCL #moa
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Pls Boost!
New review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
"From cognitive maps to spatial schemas"
With co-authors:
Delaram Farzanfar, Morris Moscovitch & Shayna Rosenbaum
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41583-022-00655-9
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RT@NilsKolling@twitter.com
Excited to announce my ERC StG @ERC_Research! This means I will be recruiting soon! As its a large grant, I will be looking for multiple postDocs, Phd students and research manager. Please spread the word to anyone who might be interested! The focus of the grant will be on.. 1/5
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RT @TonyZador@twitter.com
We used BARseq in situ sequencing to identify genes in ***1.2 million neurons*** throughout the mouse brain
We found that cortical areas with similar cell types are also interconnected. We call this “wire-by-similarity.”
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.06.515380v1
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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TonyZador/status/1589804833665560577
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Now that #COSYNE2023 abstracts are in I want to announce a #CIFAR workshop on #cognition, #AI and #consciousness that will take place *the day before COSYNE* (March 8) here at #Mila.
https://consiousnessworkshop2023.mila.quebec/
We have a great line-up and registration is *free*!
Please boost!!!!!
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RT @jaaanaru
Slowly figuring out how predictive coding happens in the brain ...
A beautiful piece by @priesemannlab
Out now in @TrendsNeuro
https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(22)00186-2
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RT @knutson_brain
RT @leafs_s
RT DVSneuro
Wealth redistribution promotes happiness | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2211123119
https://mstdn.science/@leafs_s/109385673424807154
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Great to see a joint call for replication studies in psychology and the human behavioural sciences from Nature Communications and Communications Psychology.
"...we see supporting this type of work as an investment in the future of psychology"
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RT @danieljamesyon
Great talk today from @marion_rouault today at UCL’s Consciousness Club.
Included discussion of this intriguing paper - showing how controllability alters confidence as we interact with a changeable world.
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Reminder that my deep learning course at the University of Geneva is entirely available on-line. 1000+ slides, ~20h of screen-casts.
Full of examples in PyTorch
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Well hello Mastodon! It looks like people are doing #introductions, so, I’m Professor of Cognitive Development at the University of Leeds. A particular interest is #workingmemory and how to support children with working memory difficulties in the classroom. #developmentalpsychology #cognitivepsychology #education
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This is a vast improvement on previous versions. I have nothing against using automated atlases for localization.. But they have to have a decent spatial resolution. Up to know I have used Mike Petrides 2018 atlas and my own knowledge of neuroanatomy. This looks to be a great step forwards.
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RT @TamaraJafar
Excited to share the Yale Brain Atlas! An anatomical human brain atlas for aggregating multimodal data. With 690 regions, the Yale Brain Atlas aids clinical decision-making in epilepsy surgery.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-21543-3 @NaturePortfolio @SciReports @YaleNeuro @YaleMed
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This, from PNAS reviewing instructions, is actually pretty good:
"The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws."
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL
| Author #KnowThyself (2021)
| Dad of two mini humans 🇬🇧🇭🇷
Joined Nov 2022
