Integrative biologist investigating the development of behavior in general, and vocal behavior in particular.
Princeton, NJ
Joined October 2021
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Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
congrads @LauraGrimaNeuro and all the whole team for this review on Foraging as an ethological framework for neuroscience , timely and important topic . Check it out : cell.com/trends/neuroscience…
I had the pleasure of writing a profile of a scientist I greatly admired and whose work continues to inspire me: Dale Purves (purveslab.net):
aeon.co/essays/dale-purves-t…
Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
Enough birdsong tweets, let's talk marmosets 🙊
Now in @NatureComms by @ThiagoTVarella (@LifeofBehavior lab), "Active sampling as an information seeking strategy in primate vocal interactions"
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Are contact calls somehow like electric fish pulses?
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Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
Babies are communicating as soon as they are born, and these abilities are developing in the nine months before birth.
My detailed account of how this happens...
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@behaviOrganisms & I worked on this piece, off and on, for 5 years! Glad that it's finally out into the world. It's about the importance of the individual organism in the development and evolution of brains. It's about Time.
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We also discuss mistakes folks often make (and I have certainly made) when it comes to thinking about how development and evolution work together.
I'm still mildly annoyed that it was desk-rejected by at least 4 journals (and, of course, with no meaningful explanation) but happy that it got constructive, thoughtful and rapid reviews at sciencedirect.com/journal/ne…
Translational illusions: Current Biology cell.com/current-biology/ful…
Read this awhile back. I think it's an awesome book. This is my attempt at a distillation.
Asif A Ghazanfar retweeted
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Model Systems in Biology by @georg_striedter looks good, like a gut check! Just got it yesterday. On the "to read" shortlist.
My 3-year experiment in signing all my manuscript reviews is over. I finally came across some studies where revealing my identity hampered expressing my critique. That is, I doubted that the authors would take well what I had to say.
"When the history of life on earth is viewed as a history of cell division, all of life becomes a single cell lineage."
Thought-provoking paper by Chris Fields and @drmichaellevin that explores the implications of this statement.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
I wanted to keep my twitter acct focused on "science" but this was too incredible not to share.
What Do You Fear the Most? ‘That I’m Not Who I Should Be.’ nytimes.com/2022/06/07/opini…
This is worth checking out if you're a PI. I wish had this doc when I was starting out.
A group approach to growing as a principal investigator cell.com/current-biology/ful…
See also civiclaboratory.nl/clear-lab… (Thanks to @ColumboAhmed for the pointer)
Can someone point me to a study that shows that human infants/toddlers use imitation as part of their vocal learning strategy? I'd be much obliged.
#vocallearning
Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Lecturer Position at Princeton
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Systems & Quantitative Neuroscience Lecturer Position at Princeton
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Was thinking about my past work and how I got into neural oscillations for one rewarding phase of my career. My memory chain quickly brought me to this great paper by the late Peter Lakatos. It had a big influence on me.
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Many thanks to @jonasobleser for his obituary highlighting Peter's many accomplishments.
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