Neha Binish
@nbinish.bsky.social
PhD student in Tübingen (@ Helfrich Lab, Uni Tü & Hertie Institute), interested in the principles of inter-cortical communication and information coding in the brain.
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New work from the lab published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social by @jonasterlau.bsky.social and Jan Martini. We describe that trial-by-trial variability indexes recurrent connectivity across the cortical hierarchy, which supports reliable and flexible coding www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... (1/4)
Structure in noise: Recurrent connectivity shapes neural variability to balance perceptual and cognitive demands in the human brain
Does neural variability reflect random noise or a feature that benefits adaptive behavior?
Using intracranial recordings in humans, Terlau et al. demonstrate that neural variability
results from the r...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
New work from the lab published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social by @jonasterlau.bsky.social and Jan Martini. We describe that trial-by-trial variability indexes recurrent connectivity across the cortical hierarchy, which supports reliable and flexible coding www.cell.com/neuron/abstr... (1/4)
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Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions, writes Xiao-Jing Wang.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
The missing half of the neurodynamical systems theory
Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions.
www.thetransmitter.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Bifurcations—an underexplored concept in neuroscience—can help explain how small differences in neural circuits give rise to entirely novel functions, writes Xiao-Jing Wang.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
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A cute little animation: a critically damped harmonic oscillator becomes unstable with integral control if the gain is too high. Here, at K_i = 2, a Hopf bifurcation occurs: two poles of the transfer function enter the right-hand s-plane and the closed-loop system becomes unstable.
September 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A cute little animation: a critically damped harmonic oscillator becomes unstable with integral control if the gain is too high. Here, at K_i = 2, a Hopf bifurcation occurs: two poles of the transfer function enter the right-hand s-plane and the closed-loop system becomes unstable.
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📰 I really enjoyed writing this article with @thetransmitter.bsky.social! In it, I summarize parts of our recent perspective article on neural manifolds (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), with a focus on highlighting just a few cool insights into the brain we've already seen at the population level.
Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with competing and multifaceted information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations, writes @mattperich.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/neural-dynam...
Neural population-based approaches have opened new windows into neural computations and behavior
Neural manifold properties can help us understand how animal brains deal with complex information, execute flexible behaviors and reuse common computations.
www.thetransmitter.org
August 4, 2025 at 6:45 PM
📰 I really enjoyed writing this article with @thetransmitter.bsky.social! In it, I summarize parts of our recent perspective article on neural manifolds (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), with a focus on highlighting just a few cool insights into the brain we've already seen at the population level.
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🚨New paper🚨
Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.
Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW
Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.
Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW
August 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🚨New paper🚨
Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.
Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW
Neural manifolds went from a niche-y word to an ubiquitous term in systems neuro thanks to many interesting findings across fields. But like with any emerging term, people use it very differently.
Here, we clarify our take on the term, and review key findings & challenges rdcu.be/ex8hW
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I am in Vancouver at ICML, and tomorrow I will present our newest paper "Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning with Memory Traces". We argue that eligibility traces are more effective than sliding windows as a memory mechanism for RL in POMDPs. 🧵
July 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I am in Vancouver at ICML, and tomorrow I will present our newest paper "Partially Observable Reinforcement Learning with Memory Traces". We argue that eligibility traces are more effective than sliding windows as a memory mechanism for RL in POMDPs. 🧵
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How does the brain sample the #visual environment in space and time? @iraposo.bsky.social &co show that two distinct temporal patterns (rhythmic oscillations & aperiodic timescales) predict attention-guided behavior @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ThTKVy
July 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
How does the brain sample the #visual environment in space and time? @iraposo.bsky.social &co show that two distinct temporal patterns (rhythmic oscillations & aperiodic timescales) predict attention-guided behavior @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3ThTKVy
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Hey #CVPR2025! Curious about this work? I'll be presenting it this morning! Poster 31, from 10:30 to 12:30 🤠
@cvprconference.bsky.social
@cvprconference.bsky.social
📢 New paper CVPR 25!
Can meshes capture fuzzy geometry? Volumetric Surfaces uses adaptive textured shells to model hair, fur without the splatting / volume overhead. It’s fast, looks great, and runs in real time even on budget phones.
🔗 autonomousvision.github.io/volsurfs/
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02482
Can meshes capture fuzzy geometry? Volumetric Surfaces uses adaptive textured shells to model hair, fur without the splatting / volume overhead. It’s fast, looks great, and runs in real time even on budget phones.
🔗 autonomousvision.github.io/volsurfs/
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02482
June 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hey #CVPR2025! Curious about this work? I'll be presenting it this morning! Poster 31, from 10:30 to 12:30 🤠
@cvprconference.bsky.social
@cvprconference.bsky.social
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I'm flying to Michigan today to present our new paper "A Pontryagin Perspective on Reinforcement Learning" at L4DC, where it has been nominated for the Best Paper Award! We ask the question: is it possible to learn an open-loop controller via RL? 🧵
June 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I'm flying to Michigan today to present our new paper "A Pontryagin Perspective on Reinforcement Learning" at L4DC, where it has been nominated for the Best Paper Award! We ask the question: is it possible to learn an open-loop controller via RL? 🧵
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🙌 It's been a wonderful PhD Retreat at the HIH yesterday, with lots of time for exchange, poster sessions and the election of the new PhD representatives: Stefano Iavarone, Niloofar Mokhtari @estherkuehn.bsky.social & Surender Surender @ghtabatabai.bsky.social 🎉
April 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🙌 It's been a wonderful PhD Retreat at the HIH yesterday, with lots of time for exchange, poster sessions and the election of the new PhD representatives: Stefano Iavarone, Niloofar Mokhtari @estherkuehn.bsky.social & Surender Surender @ghtabatabai.bsky.social 🎉
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Proud moment to see work from my PhD in the @granadalab.bsky.social featured on the cover of the April 2025 issue of @molsystbiol.org 🥹 special thanks to my talented husband who helped design this cover. Check out the full paper here: lnkd.in/eDVQuRfc.
April 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Proud moment to see work from my PhD in the @granadalab.bsky.social featured on the cover of the April 2025 issue of @molsystbiol.org 🥹 special thanks to my talented husband who helped design this cover. Check out the full paper here: lnkd.in/eDVQuRfc.
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New work out in @naturephysics.bsky.social
Led by @NicaGutu & Malthe Nordentoft + great collaborators.
We show that circadian synchrony shapes cell growth. When coordination is lost, clock–cell cycle coupling breaks down.
May help explain paradoxes in circadian cancer biology.
📖 rdcu.be/efNaY
Led by @NicaGutu & Malthe Nordentoft + great collaborators.
We show that circadian synchrony shapes cell growth. When coordination is lost, clock–cell cycle coupling breaks down.
May help explain paradoxes in circadian cancer biology.
📖 rdcu.be/efNaY
March 31, 2025 at 12:46 PM
New work out in @naturephysics.bsky.social
Led by @NicaGutu & Malthe Nordentoft + great collaborators.
We show that circadian synchrony shapes cell growth. When coordination is lost, clock–cell cycle coupling breaks down.
May help explain paradoxes in circadian cancer biology.
📖 rdcu.be/efNaY
Led by @NicaGutu & Malthe Nordentoft + great collaborators.
We show that circadian synchrony shapes cell growth. When coordination is lost, clock–cell cycle coupling breaks down.
May help explain paradoxes in circadian cancer biology.
📖 rdcu.be/efNaY
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How does the brain integrate prior expectation with sensory evidence? 👀🧠💭
We show that sensory and action neural tuning play distinct roles in guiding visual decisions. Dampening expected action information drives confirmation bias, while dynamic sensory tuning explains speed-accuracy trade-offs.
We show that sensory and action neural tuning play distinct roles in guiding visual decisions. Dampening expected action information drives confirmation bias, while dynamic sensory tuning explains speed-accuracy trade-offs.
Sensory and action neural tuning explains how priors guide human visual decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.26.645167v1
March 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
How does the brain integrate prior expectation with sensory evidence? 👀🧠💭
We show that sensory and action neural tuning play distinct roles in guiding visual decisions. Dampening expected action information drives confirmation bias, while dynamic sensory tuning explains speed-accuracy trade-offs.
We show that sensory and action neural tuning play distinct roles in guiding visual decisions. Dampening expected action information drives confirmation bias, while dynamic sensory tuning explains speed-accuracy trade-offs.