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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories...
Alice Munro
We use tools from machine learning to figure out computational principles of adaptive behavior and their neural substrates.
About
Studying learning, in brains and machines.
Interaction between theory and experiment
Theoretical neuroscience questions:
How do memories form and what happens when we remember them?
How do we learn about the causal structure of our sensory world ?
How does existing knowledge shapes the way we learn new things?
How do we know that we don't know?
Data analysis tools:
Characterizing the statistics of neural activity during complex behavior and how they evolve with experience.
A team effort
Great concentration of world class neuroscience research. + new Courant school of Mathematics, Computer Science and Data Science.
News
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April '26| multiple postdoc openings (both theory and statistical data analysis).
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March '26| Cosyne presentations of work by Ben, David, Erdem, Harsha, Jayden and Maggie.
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Dec '25 | Erdem presents new work on error forcing as a NeurIPS spotlight.
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Nov '25|Shannon's paper on the role of OFC in belief updating out in Neuron.
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Sept '25|Erdem's error forcing paper accepted to NeurIPS as spotlight.
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June '25|PGAM reveals common autism neural signatures in JP's Nat. Neuroscience paper.
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May '25|David's kindergarten curriculum learning out in Nature Machine Intelligence.
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April '25|Simons Collaboration on Ecological NEuroscience (SCENE) officially announced.
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Jan '25|Matt's paper on estimating distributed neural dynamics presented as ICLR spotlight.
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Jan '25|Ipshita's paper on hippocampal encoding of action plans published in Nature.
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Dec '24 |Julie's paper on straightening as learning objective presented at NeurIPS.
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June '24 |Edoardo and JP's paper on belief coding in the firefly task out in Nat. Comm.
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May. '24 |Cristina promoted to Associate Professor.
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Jan. '24 |Colin's paper on interpretability limits of causal experiments out in J. Neuroscience.
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Jan. '24 |4 Cosyne posters. Congrats Camille, David, Danilo, Jeroen and Julie!
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Jan. '24 |Upcoming Cosyne workshop "I can't believe it's not better!"
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Jan. '24 |Ben's paper on networks representing complex priors accepted as ICLR spotlight.
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Jan. '24 |David's new paper on kindergarten curriculum learning on bioRxiv.
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Nov. '23 |Caro's paper on neural correlates of task flexibility out in Nature Comm.
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Nov. '23 |Gauthier's work on multitask learning by stochastic comodulation on arXiv.
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Sept. '23 |Michele's paper on CA1 noise correlations published in J. Neuroscience.
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Sept. '23 |Owen's paper on meta-dynamics out on bioRxiv.
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Sept. '23 |Colin's paper formalizing locality of learning accepted to NeurIPS.
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Sept. '23 |Bernstein workshop on neural substrates of behavioral flexibility.
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May '23 |David awarded K01 to study how brains learn latent world structure.
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Febr '23 |Caroline awarded 2023 Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Award.
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Jan '23 |strong Cosyne 2023 lab showing: one contributed talk, and 3 posters.
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Jan '23 |TAME-GP paper accepted as ICLR spotlight, also on arxiv.
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Jan '23 | Justin and Klavdia's paper on acoustic decision variable coding out in PNAS.
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Oct '22 | Edoardo's paper published in Elife.
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Oct '22 | upcoming talks by Pedro (SfN) and Caro ('All thing attention' NeurIPS workshop)
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Sept '22| new P-GAM library release as docker and as a singularity image.
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Jan '22 | Caroline, Colin and Camille will present posters at Cosyne 2022.
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Oct '21|David's paper on OFC coding accepted for publication in Elife
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Sept '21| 2 spotlights and 1 poster accepted to NeurIPS main conference.
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Febr '21| Daniel's paper on online hyperparameter optimization is now on arxiv!
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Jan '21| 4 posters and 1 contributed talk accepted to Cosyne!
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Dec '20| Owen has been awarded the 2021-22 Dean dissertation fellowship!
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Sept '20| Edoardo and Colin's papers accepted to NeurIPS 2020.
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Sept '20| Strong Savin lab showing at Bernstein conference (3 posters, 2 workshop talks).
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Febr '20| Owen's JMLR paper is now online.
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Febr '20| Cristina receives Google faculty award (Kyunghyun Cho co-PI).
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Sept '19| Caroline's paper accepted for the NeurIPS 2019 main meeting.
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May '19| Caroline receives Google fellowship; Camille awarded an NSF GRFP.
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Jan '19| Four posters accepted to Cosyne!
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Dec '18| Eun Hye Park's paper on head direction coding published in Neuron.
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July '18| Paper on unsupervised learning in neural circuits published in Scientific Reports.
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Sept '17 | New MaxEnt review published in Curr Opin Neurobiol.
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