Neuroscientist - (Un)certainty, Cells, Dopamine&5HT - Experiments 🔗 Theory. PI Decision Circuits Lab at @bccn_berlin @HumboldtUni.

Berlin, Germany
Joined January 2018
1/ Thrilled to share the first work from the Ott lab (@OttTorben), with OpenScope at @AllenInstitute! We focused on how #psilocybin 🍄changes visual processing during active behavior in mice. We combined visual change detection with large-scale Neuropixels recordings in mice.
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Group leaders, postdocs, PhDs, undergrads: We need your feedback on our draft handbook in establishing and running SAFE labs (a practical, evolving tool to improve lab culture)! forms.office.com/e/XYxs1anhd…
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Thanks to the organizers and let's make labs more SAFE!
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Thanks to all the speakers and co-organizers, this was such a wonderful day! #cosyne2024
Such a fun day and amazing discussion about psychedelics #cosyne2024 @OttTorben @zmainen @achristensen56 @46and2neurons @KathaSchmack @_ramanujans And David Jacobs
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Torben Ott retweeted
Come for the cool-amazing-unique brains and behaviors, stay for the general mechanisms and inspiration for artificial agents. Feat. @cris_niell @LabVallentin @kelseytyss @evolvingORs @e_mackevicius @jzavatoneveth @OttTorben Lorenz Fenk and Barbara Webb
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Attentional mechanisms enable selective processing of information. With Ruobing Xia, @Xiaomo_CCLab, and Tirin Moore, we review work across species, forms of attention, and analysis levels, revealing convergence and differences. Out today in @TrendsCognSci: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Our team is looking for a postdoc researcher to work on temporal cognition, serotonin, and decision-making. ERC-funded position at @bccn_berlin. See torbenottlab.org for details. Find me at our Cosyne workshop ⬇️
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Dabei in Folge 3 der @Tagesspiegel-Reihe zu den 100 wichtigsten Köpfen der Berliner Wissenschaft: Torben Ott @OttTorben, Neurowissenschaftler am Institut für Biologie der HU & am @bccn_berlin, der zur Bewertung von Zeit aus neuronaler Perspektive forscht! tagesspiegel.de/wissen/sie-e…
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What do you get when you combine RL and predictive coding? The in vivo activity patterns of serotonin neurons. Excited to share a new theory and analysis to back it up! doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.19.5… With @NeuroNaud and @JCBeique in collab with @grossmancooper & @JeremiahYCohen. 🧵
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1/6 We are thrilled to share our latest paper published on @CurrentBiology today! @ChenYuNan347 with the support of @johanna_kostka and @SebBitzenhofer revealed that olfaction early in life is necessary for cognitive development. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Mice reaching up for rewards! 🐭💪🏻 Current tasks for assessing motivation may have some extra cognitive demands not purely related to physical effort which may confound result interpretation and outcomes. We´ve developed a task to minimise these confounds: the RED task! 🧵👇
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Excited to share this paper using new neurotech and explainable AI to advance DBS for treatment resistant #depression (TRD). Team effort including @HelenMaybergMD, @sankar_alagapan and Patricio Riva-Posse. Summary thread! go.nature.com/48lmlzC @nature PC: Mike Halerz
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Finally read this in our jclub-water ingestion leads to long (30+min) activity increase in a subset of dopamine neurons, depending on projection (and in NAc dopamine might even decrease?!)-we should know how repeated, small water ingestion in our behavioral tasks affects dopamine
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Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. doi.org/10.1177/174569162211…
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Yesterday a letter from 100 scientists declared the popular theory of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory - is "pseudoscience." And that media about it is "scientific misinformation." The letter is bad. Here's my reply why: theintrinsicperspective.com/…
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Attractor dynamics reflect decision confidence in macaque prefrontal cortex biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #biorxiv_neursci
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this sounds amazing!
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YOU can help us finalize raising funds by signing in support and getting involved ➡️ BrainBehaviorObservatory.org We just held our first 🧠🌩️ Workshop at @CampusBiotech with a small yet amazing, international group 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇨🇭🇬🇧🇵🇹🇨🇾🇦🇹generously supported by @Boehringer Let's do this!
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