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Juan Gallego

@juangallego.bsky.social

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Thinking about the brain, spinal cord and how we move (and related neurotech). Into books, music, coffee, food, photography+art, animals & some humans. Group leader at Imperial College London #neuroskyence #Sensorimotor #compneurosky #Science

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 2d

🚨Big news!🚨
The lab is relocating to Lisbon, joining a great team of experimental and theoretical neuroscientists, and the Neurotechnology Warehouse, a new initiative to bridge basic and translational research.

I'll be sharing postdoc openings soon. Come join us in this new incarnation of the lab!

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 3d

🧠🎼 What does it take to restore movement? Neuroscientist and engineer, @juangallego.bsky.social, joins the new Centre for Restorative Neurotechnology at the Champalimaud Foundation.

🔗 Find out more in this interview: www.fchampalimaud.org/news/juan-al...

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 40m

Thanks David, really excited to be here with this amazing crowd

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 41m

Thanks Cristin, hope to catch up soon

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 41m

Thanks Jay!

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 42m

Thanks Sam!

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 46m

thanks Cedric

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 46m

... in your very unbiased view of course!
thanks Matt

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 46m

finalmente!
and big congratulations on your exciting-but-not-yet-public-news

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 48m

Thanks Kevin! You know that you're welcome anytime

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 48m

Thanks a lot Britton! and see you soon-ish

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 49m

Thanks Laureline

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 49m

Gracias Seán!

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 51m

Thanks Yue, hope to see you in Kobe next year? Congrats also on your recent paper with @adrianhaith.bsky.social it's at the top of my reading pile

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 54m

Thanks Ben! It's very exciting news indeed
I'm looking forward to working with a lot of amazing new colleagues here at @champalimaudf.bsky.social

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 56m

Thank you Drew, very excited to be here

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 56m

thank you Laura, hope to catch up soon!

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 1d

the title sounds very intriguing, i should find the time to look at the paper, or listen to the podcast

congrats Ben, Shraddha, and the rest of the team

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 2d

Champalimaud Research @champalimaudr.bsky.social · 3d

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Reza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 6d

Tenure-track faculty position in motor neuroscience at Penn State.

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Open-Rank Faculty Position in Sensorimotor Control and Rehabilitation Neuroscience

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 29d

Well, those studies are hard but they're coming

Re distributed code -- I didn't write the original post but partial compensation after focal lesions do support distributed computation...

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 29d

I agree, observations don't imply causation but people know that.

Also agree about having to write carefully and precisely

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · 29d

It could, what I mean is that it likely won't exist in a real mammalian brain...

Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · Sep 10

You can look at papers doing single or few neuron manipulations & looked at changes in the overall neural population (we cite a few in the paper, spanning hippocampus, motor regions, V1, there's also Rebesco et al Front Neuro 2010): they all consistently show that the population changes w the target

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · Sep 10

3) there are already several experiments casually probing assumptions about manifolds using brain computer interfaces (e.g. work from @aaronbatista.bsky.social + Byron Yu and Steve Chase, we're starting to do some stuff too...) and 1/2

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · Sep 10

2) the toy model that you seem to outline of a single neuron within a circuit doing a "computation" (???) seems implausible in practice based on the neuroanatomy of the mammalian brain (recurrent connectivity, common inputs, distributed neuromodulator release...)

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Juan Gallego @juangallego.bsky.social · Sep 10

Some thoughts, but I'm not sure about the exact challenge you lay out

1) I think it's well established that decoding or any correlational analysis, doesn't imply causation. This isn't a challenge for manifolds but for (neuro)science in general. Explanations should be based on many types of results

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