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Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · 19d

(edited repost) Thrilled to see our computational work on adaptive shaping of behavior (we call it outcome-based curriculum learning) in PLoS Comp Biol! @wl-tong.bsky.social, @gautamreddy.bsky.social & I formalize curricula in any RL task that can be framed as sequential simple-to-complex behavior.

Adaptive algorithms for shaping behavior

Author summary Animals are commonly trained by ‘shaping’ their behavior using a sequence of simpler tasks towards a complex behavior. Numerous schools of thought have proposed heuristics for shaping b...

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Malcolm Campbell @malcolmgcampbell.bsky.social · 19d

🚨Our preprint is online!🚨

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

How do #dopamine neurons perform the key calculations in reinforcement #learning?

Read on to find out more! 🧵

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Ding Liu @dingliu.bsky.social · Feb 27

In our new paper @dulaclab.bsky.social, we investigated a fundamental question in social neuroscience: the origin of "sociality" (the need of being together) at the levels of behavior, neuron type, neural circuit and sensory modulation. (Detailed digest below) (1/7)
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Luis Boero @luxorboero.bsky.social · Feb 13

Huge thanks to @neurovenki.bsky.social and all my co-authors for their hard work, support, and insightful discussions on this! There’s still so much to learn about how animals use these stimuli in nature (and in our task), and I’m excited to see where this research takes us next.

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Luis Boero @luxorboero.bsky.social · Feb 13

Happy to share our latest preprint! Very thankful of this project that have allowed me to (1) learn a lot, (2) work with very talented and rigorous people, and (3) capitalize 1 and 2 for delving into how mice olfactory system deals with very brief, intermittent odor stimuli.

Venki Murthy @neurovenki.bsky.social · Feb 13

Yes, many worrying things happening in science that should take priority in grabbing our attention - but we are worried precisely because scientific knowledge is worth creating. In that spirit, I am proud to highlight our latest @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint! #neuroscience 🧪

Perception and neural representation of intermittent odor stimuli in mice

Odor cues in nature are sparse and highly fluctuating due to turbulent transport. To investigate how animals perceive these intermittent cues, we developed a behavioral task in which head-restrained m...

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Moritz Engelhardt @moritzengelhardt.bsky.social · Nov 15

Seeing many new #olfaction researches on Bluesky, nice! I made a starter pack for researchers and groups studying the sense of smell or taste. If you want to get added let me know.

go.bsky.app/xfXg9B

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Luis Boero @luxorboero.bsky.social · Nov 27

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Luis Boero @luxorboero.bsky.social · Nov 26

The song remains the same

Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · Nov 11

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

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Christian Cazares, Ph.D. @fleabrained.bsky.social · Nov 13

go.bsky.app/LJj3CUD let's grow this one

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Luis Boero @luxorboero.bsky.social · Nov 22

Question for non-native English speakers in Academia: At what time of your career do you finally learn to use in/on/at prepositions in your writing/slides? Tell me there's hope...

Luis Boero @luxorboero.bsky.social · Nov 19

Every time people told me, "You will regret the things you didn't do," I never thought linear algebra would be in that list, but it is.

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Luis Boero @luxorboero.bsky.social · Sep 22

Not that science related but science in the end: is our sense of taste changing with age or is it that current candy products taste worse than candy from decades ago?

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