Research group at UMD combining data-driven models with theories of neural and systems-level computation
University of Maryland
Joined September 2019
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Dan Butts retweeted
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…
👀 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.
Dan Butts retweeted
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
Dan Butts retweeted
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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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! 🧠🤖
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/…
ALT Perception as inference
Dan Butts retweeted
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.
Dan Butts retweeted
#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.
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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.
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
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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.
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…
Dan Butts retweeted
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!
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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
Dan Butts retweeted
Doing @neuromatch without the group by yourself? Deep learning or comp Neuro? Test drive our ai tutor! Please give detailed feedback!
We're excited for the alpha release of our Chatify 🤖package in collaboration with @neuromatch! Chatify adds an LLM-powered "AI tutor" widget to Jupyter notebooks.
Try it by adding this code to the top cell:
!pip install chatify
%load_ext chatify
Link: github.com/ContextLab/chatif…
Dan Butts retweeted
There is so much known about the neural mechanisms in primary visual cortex that support perception of the peripheral visual field. But what about the very center of gaze? Come find out now! Felix Bartsch presents his poster with @NeuralCodeUMD #VSS2023 @VSSMtg
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At @cosynemeeting #cosyne2023? Come to (@[email protected]) Bharath’s talk in Session2 (Friday 3/10 at 9:45 am), where he will present an extension of this work!
New preprint! “Activity in primate visual cortex is minimally driven by spontaneous movements”, biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…, by amazing team led by @BharathTalluri & Incheol Kang, with Adam Lazere, @NickKaliss, @mightyrosequinn, & wonderful collaborators @jcbyts & @NeuralCodeUMD. 1/8
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Excited about this new line of work in my lab, led by @arsedle w/ @chris_versteeg, to probe the relationship between expressivity and interpretability in models of neural population dynamics.
arxiv.org/abs/2212.03771
Dan Butts retweeted
Just picked up @PessoaBrain's book The Entangled Brain. Wow - he's saying the quiet part out loud:
"Bigger and shinier tools and techniques alone won't yield the necessary progress; we run the risk of being able to measure every cell in the brain in a theoretical vacuum." 👏👏👏
There are only a few books that I’m excited enough to coordinate a preorder, and this is one of them. What Luiz is amplifying here is a VeryBigDeal. I’m happy to order this via my favorite local bookstore, @HeadHouseBooks.
Dan Butts retweeted
If you do vision research & are looking for a post-doc, consider @NIH. We have an international, diverse, collaborative group & we strive to have fun while we do science. Lots of scope for you to choose new directions for your work. DC is a great place to live. App review soon.
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…
Dan Butts retweeted
Together with @visioncircuits Laura Busse, I am delighted to welcome @jess_cardin and @tyrell_turing Blake Richards as the Program Chairs for the #cosyne23 @CosyneMeeting, 9-14 March 2023 in #Montreal! Check Cosyne.org for important dates and announcements!
Dan Butts retweeted
Two papers from my postdoc are out this week. Together, they advance the use of ethological visual tasks and techniques for studying visual coding in freely moving mice. I am looking for folks to join me on this exciting journey forward in my new lab at Rutgers! 1/4
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Manuscript a long time coming: The ms-scale temporal patterning in the responses of S1 neurons plays a key role in shaping judgments of vibratory frequency. But of course, it's more complicated than that. With @ThierriCallier @harveymic doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.19.5…