I am not disagreeing. I am not suggesting we lose behavioral control. It is about increasing the dimensionality of the tasks. we are now able to collect a meaningful dataset in a month in our animals with lots of simultaneous data. So perhaps we can be more ambitious in our task design :)!
By designing decision-making tasks that vary along multiple dimensions and truly challenge our animals, we might finally understand how multiple brain areas coordinate to drive decisions, writes @chandlab.bsky.social.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/decision-mak...
Great article and I completely agree. If we want to study the interesting thing about the brain ("intelligence") we need to study it doing hard tasks, not easy ones that can be solved with a single neuron or even none. Yes it makes the analysis harder but that's the challenge.
Josh Siegle and I are thrilled to be chairing the first workshop on "Bridging the gap between cell types and spike trains"! We see this as the key link between population-level descriptions of dynamics and real mechanistic understanding from cell types.
celltypestospikesworkshop.github.io/2026/
Excited to share our new findings: distinct neural dynamics in prefrontal and premotor cortex during flexible decision making, preprinted on biorxiv.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...