@NeuralCodeUMD

Research group at UMD combining data-driven models with theories of neural and systems-level computation

 University of Maryland
neurotheoryumd.github.edu
Joined September 2019
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Are you an aspiring graduate student fascinated with neuroscience and enjoy computation? Apply to my lab at UMD for graduate school: we aim to develop a mechanistic understanding of cortical function using novel computational tools and large-scale neurophysiological data.
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Mine was just canceled too (was supposed to be next week). Horrific -- for NIH and especially all the science that depends on it.
Ann L. Jennerich, MD MS ATSF
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NIH study sections are being canceled or postponed at the last minute, wasting countless hours of scientists' time and delaying critical research funding. This instability threatens scientific progress and patient care. @NIH needs to fix this - fast. #NIHStudySection @theNCI @nih_nhlbi @NIHFunding @NIHDirector
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Annual Economic Report (2026) - United For Medical Research

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These great research institutions in red states are slated to lose about $1B in NIH research dollars
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Congratulations to Karolina and the team and thank you to our funders NERF, VIB, and FWO and collaborators @NeuralCodeUMD, Matt Whiteway who have supported us and contributed to this project. URL doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.202… Official press release: xitter.cf/VIBLifeSciences/status…
VIB@VIBLifeSciences17 Dec 2024
👀 How does the brain process visual information? New research by @BoninLab and colleagues (@__NERF) suggests it's more complicated than we thought. ➡️ Read more: vibbio.tech/4gfeQO7 The video 👇 shows how visual information is transmitted in the brain.
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Excited to release what we’ve been working on at Amaranth Foundation, our latest whitepaper, NeuroAI for AI safety! A detailed, ambitious roadmap for how neuroscience research can help build safer AI systems while accelerating both virtual neuroscience and neurotech. 1/N
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Super-significant work in NeuroAI!
Hadi Vafaii@hadivafaii29 Oct 2024
How do brains “infer” the world’s state from noisy sensory data—and do so “dynamically?” Our new theoretical framework bridges these two perspectives in a brain-inspired model👉🧵[1/n] w/ amazing co-lead @dekelgalor & polymath mentor @jcbyts 📜preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2410.19315
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Looking forward to #sfn2024! I'll talk on Sat PM and the lab will have posters on Mon PM from @APhensy @LenaShindy Lara Hagopian & Teagan Bullock. Thanks to @christineliuart for flyer production!!
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We are recruiting PhD students for this fall, to work at the interface of visual neurophysiology and machine learning. Are you enthusiastic (and ideally knowledgable :) about both? Send me an email!
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Come join a fantastic lab (with great collaborators :) to combine cutting edge neurophysiology and computation to answer fundamental questions about vision at the NIH. [pls RT]
Bevil Conway@BevilConway29 Jan 2024
Are you keen on brains, neural circuits, electrophys, modeling, behavior, & fancy tools? Post-doc position @NIH. Come collaborate w/ us & Dan Butts (UMD) @NeuralCodeUMD. Fully funded, collaborative, international team. Pls inquire, pls RT training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-sn…
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I'm at #NeurIPS23 and I'll be presenting this work on Tue Dec 12, afternoon session (poster #415). Details here: nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/… I love chatting about brains, AI, and anything in between. If you're at #NeurIPS23 and care about #NeuroAI, let’s connect! 🧠🤖
Hadi Vafaii@hadivafaii29 Sep 2023
Why is the visual cortex organized hierarchically? Because it has to infer the underlying composition of a multi-scale world. New preprint with @jcbyts and @NeuralCodeUMD (accepted to #NeurIPS2023) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Perception as inference

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This paper is so cool: dangeng.github.io/visual_ana… It shows several kinds of illusions that I had never seen before (e.g., color inversion illusion). It's exciting to see more and more cases like this, where AI opens up new kinds of art, rather than only imitating old forms.
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#SfN23, @SfNtweets: come check out my poster tomorrow (Sunday) morning if you are curious about the relationship between generative modeling and the brain. Work with @jcbyts and @NeuralCodeUMD. abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/1…
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Come see our poster this afternoon (Saturday) at #SfN23 (Z26): suggesting color and form are processed through separate channels in (high-acuity) foveal V1, likely due to the limits of cone sampling. With @BevilConway and presented by Felix Bartsch.
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If you’re interested in a postdoc at the NIH, track me down at SfN. My lab has four posters on Saturday afternoon (row Z: 18/19/25/26), and I’ll chair a session on objects and scenes Wednesday morning, room WC147A.
Bevil Conway@BevilConway1 Sep 2022
Post-doc position @NIH (near Washington DC). Join our quest to learn how light gets turned into perceptions, thoughts, actions. Great resources, 5 yrs funded, collaborative, fun, international team. Neurophys, fMRI, MEG, behav. #color. Pls inquire, pls RT nei.nih.gov/grants-and-train…
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We have a 5-year postdoc position in my lab @NatEyeInstitute, @NIH, details are here: nei.nih.gov/grants-and-train…
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We have another open postdoc position! Come join a collaborative community at the Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, NIH. I welcome informal inquiries.
Bevil Conway@BevilConway1 Sep 2022
Post-doc position @NIH (near Washington DC). Join our quest to learn how light gets turned into perceptions, thoughts, actions. Great resources, 5 yrs funded, collaborative, fun, international team. Neurophys, fMRI, MEG, behav. #color. Pls inquire, pls RT nei.nih.gov/grants-and-train…
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It's finally out! Great work from the @nienborglab (with @jcbyts) that I enjoyed being a part of.
Nature Neuroscience
@NatureNeuro13 Oct 2023
In primates, activity in visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous body movements. These results confirm the functional specialization of primate visual processing and contrast with findings in mice. nature.com/articles/s41593-0…

Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements

Nature Neuroscience - In primates, activity in the visual cortex is not driven by spontaneous body movements. These results confirm the functional specialization of primate visual processing, in...

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Our new preprint by @hadivafaii with @jcbyts to be presented at #NeurIPS2023
Hadi Vafaii@hadivafaii29 Sep 2023
Why is the visual cortex organized hierarchically? Because it has to infer the underlying composition of a multi-scale world. New preprint with @jcbyts and @NeuralCodeUMD (accepted to #NeurIPS2023) biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Perception as inference

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Sharing new preprint from our lab: @biorxiv_neursci. Led by @pklafosse, we show neurons in the awake🧠can filter out inputs: attenuation-by-suppression. Also: real neurons’ activation function share features w/ #ai systems (eg ChatGPT). #neuroscience Comments welcome! 1/15
biorxiv preprint Single cell optogenetics reveals attenuation-by-suppression in visual cortical neurons Paul K. LaFosse1,2,3, Zhishang Zhou1 , Victoria M. Scott1 , Yanting Deng1 , Mark H. Histed1

ALT biorxiv preprint Single cell optogenetics reveals attenuation-by-suppression in visual cortical neurons Paul K. LaFosse1,2,3, Zhishang Zhou1 , Victoria M. Scott1 , Yanting Deng1 , Mark H. Histed1

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