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Wu Tsai Institute | Yale University @wutsaiyale.bsky.social · 2d

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Emily G. Jacobs @emilyjacobs.bsky.social · 5d

This week two new #28andMe babies joined the extended family:

⏳ @lapate.bsky.social’s lab uncovered a resting-state connectivity signature that reflects the passage of time. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (2/x)

The intrinsic time tracker: temporal context is embedded in entorhinal and hippocampal functional connectivity patterns - Nature Communications

This study shows that hippocampal and entorhinal connectivity patterns drift over time in humans, providing a spontaneous neural signature of elapsed time that follows functional gradients and reveals network-specific contributions to temporal coding.

www.nature.com

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · 16d

Skimming this excellent autobiography of Charles Gross ahead of going over object recognition systems in cog neuro course on Tuesday (www.sfn.org/-/media/SfN/...), and there are some *gems* in here.... "Both spoke only the hermetic jargon each had created so no communication was possible."

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · 22d

Pre-registration 🤨🫣🤷‍♂️😶
Pre-frontal 🤠😎😇🤓🎊🙌🏼🎉

But I’ll actually read this and would love that chat about it sometime! :)

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · 22d

Very cool! Did you also look at load signals in frontal ctx? Seems like you’d get a uni/multi-variate divergence there, for many reasons. Although from a brief glance it looks like IPS still showed both highest uni and multi-variate load signals? (But I should actually, ya know, read the paper…)

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 28d

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Sep 8

You are making my deeply held cortical chauvinism tougher and tougher to keep up 😫 🥲

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks, and hat makes total sense, esp. to maximize effect first! The specific targeting has me thinking of this work from Xu & Desimone with simultaneous NHP grid e-stim with fMRI recording: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... curious what spatial scale the spatial optimization effects will come down to!

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Sep 7

super cool (& inspiring)! Finally read this and was wondering, for chronic stimulation (beyond initial 3-day electrode mappings), were all 4 electrode panels stimulated simultaneously? or were they isolated and that could vary with optimization? (didn't catch in paper, curious about PFC specificity)

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Sep 6

😅 Spatial scales ruin all principles don’t they… not to mention that in PFC you get the recurrent patchy connection patterns between “mini-columns”… reminds me all of this interesting paper on what fine-grained means computationally: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A modeler's view on the spatial structure of intrinsic horizontal connectivity in the neocortex

Most current computational models of neocortical networks assume a homogeneous and isotropic arrangement of local synaptic couplings between neurons. …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is a large premise of the Barbas structural model! :) that cortical laminar types are very related to feedforward/feedback connectional patterns pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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U Miami Dept of Psychology @umiamipsych.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Aug 15

Very very cool!! Curious what connections you and Zach think are driving this variability? e.g., if it’s lPFC local connectivity vs PFC-parietal vs thalamic loops or all of the above… have you looked at the specific connections that are most different across individuals at these borders?

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Jul 17

there are many! (from recent OHBM anatomy session slides on PFC)

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Jul 11

Really cool work as usual! The sub-networks are so individually defined, but neurosynth maps are obviously averaged across trials, conditions, subjects, etc. Curious if there’s deep sampling task data with lots of trials per subj. that could distinguish some functioning among these close regions?

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Nature Human Behaviour @nathumbehav.nature.com · Jul 9

In this Article, Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe. @jankaminski.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unattended working memory items are coded by persistent activity in human medial temporal lobe neurons - Nature Human Behaviour

Paluch et al. show that unattended working memory items, as well as attended ones, are encoded in persistent activity in the medial temporal lobe.

www.nature.com

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Jul 7

And a good ad for the @wmsymposium.bsky.social, starting tomorrow! 🎉🙌🏼

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Jul 7

Ah, yes this is from the ever brilliant Anastasia Kiyonaga! It’s a pre-registered paper in process at Nat Hum Behav on PFC vs IPS TMS:
osf.io/3pzv9/
www.kiyonagalab.org/papers
(I have no involvement in this other than taking Annie’s mentoring time away for other crazy projects and papers 😅)

Dissociating the causal roles of frontal and parietal cortex in working memory capacity

Hosted on the Open Science Framework

osf.io

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WMSymposium.bsky.social @wmsymposium.bsky.social · Jul 2

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Laura-Isabelle Klatt @lauraklatt.bsky.social · Jul 4

🚨 Hey #WorkingMemory folks! 🚨
#WMS25 is coming up next week! Join us for 4 days of cutting-edge science, featuring amazing work by #ECRs.

✅ No registration – join our Slack and tune in via Zoom!
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If you’re interested in WM, this is the event you can’t miss!

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Jul 3

Amazing news! 🙌🏼 ramping up your continual successes like the rlPFC? 😅

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Jul 3

news.med.miami.edu/lois-pope-gi...

Philanthropist Lois Pope Gives $10 Million to the University of Miami to Establish Fund for Neuroscience Research in Memory of Her Daughter - InventUM

The donation will establish the Lois Pope Neuroscience Research Fund to research Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological disorders.

news.med.miami.edu

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Jun 30

This makes sense to me for the myelin-related or func. conn. gradient maps, but for fMRI GLMs/models in cog neuro? For the latter, testing diff. models to see what voxels fit well (and which don’t) across task and stimulus conditions seems important and leads to cool findings of RPEs, semantic maps

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Jun 22

At #OHBM2025 in Brisbane? I'm presenting at ~9am tomorrow on structural-functional architectures in the PFC as part of the neuroanatomy educational session! (Which honors the late Karl Zilles)

Full session details: ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Events/viewEv?ev=2229 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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Jacob Miller @neurojacob.bsky.social · Jun 22

At #OHBM2025 in Brisbane? I'm presenting at ~9am tomorrow on structural-functional architectures in the PFC as part of the neuroanatomy educational session! (Which honors the late Karl Zilles)

Full session details: ww6.aievolution.com/hbm2501/Events/viewEv?ev=2229 @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

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