A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex Mental imagery allows us to remember previous experiences and imagine new ones. Animal studies have yielded rich insight into mechanisms for visual perception, but the neural mechanisms for visual ima...

Beautiful paper — clear evidence for a generative model in the human brain 🧠 👁️

A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congrats!!

Dorsoventral hippocampus neural assemblies reactivate during sleep following an aversive experience - Nature Neuroscience Synchronization of sharp-wave ripples across the dorsoventral hippocampus during sleep supports coordinated reactivation that represents negative experiences more faithfully than positive ones.

Our paper is out today!!! (not an April fool's day joke) Congrats to authors @azulsilva.bsky.social, @belalima-paiva.bsky.social, Ele Pronier, and mostly to the amazing scientist and human being who led this project @facuumm.bsky.social
#neuroskyence #hippocampus
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are officially less than two months away from #OptoGRC2026! 🤩

Submit your abstract by March 22 to be considered for a talk.

Attendee applications are open until April 12, but we recommend applying soon before spots fill up!

Register: www.grc.org/optogenetic-...

For those traveling to #cosyne2026, sad to miss catching up this year, but here's two posters you should check out:

1) Complementary roles of spatial tuning and population geometry in place- vs. memory-guided navigation

w/ @audiodrome.bsky.social @apeyrache.bsky.social @tyrellturing.bsky.social.

Phenomenal work!

1/N: Dear cognitive map fans, I’d like to share a model I’ve been working on for a while (clearing backlog :). I show how a vector navigation architecture (VNA) and a “positional inference network” (PIN) can build Universal Cognitive Maps (UCMs) for abstract spaces.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering The visual cortex receives a stream of high-dimensional sensory input. The role of dense local, recurrent cortical connections in shaping responses to these inputs has been unclear. Here, we show that...

Recurrent cortical networks encode natural sensory statistics via sequence filtering
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
#neuroscience

Linking neural manifolds to circuit structure in recurrent networks Dimensionality reduction methods are widely used in neuroscience to investigate two complementary aspects of neural activity: the distribution of sing…

Excited to share our new paper to be published in Neuron!

With Valentin Schmutz @bio-emergent.bsky.social and Wulfram Gerstner @gerstnerlab.bsky.social, we explore how circuit structure in RNNs shapes network computation and single-neuron responses.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🏆️ The winners of the #BrainPrize2026 have been announced!

🌟 The @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social @brainprize.org has been awarded to Prof. Patrik Ernfors and Prof. David Ginty for their discoveries on how the nervous system detects and processes touch and pain.

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#BrainPrize2026

Finally getting on top of new papers and god there are so many good ones. This from Lykken, Kanter, @edvardmoser.bsky.social & @m-bmoser.bsky.social is brilliant. Neuropixels showing differential phase shifts across grid modules drive place cell remapping. Elegant grid-to-place transformation story.

Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex - Nature Parsimonious deep neural network models can be used for prediction of visual neuron responses.

Nature research paper: Compact deep neural network models of the visual cortex

go.nature.com/3OKRXZU

Highly recommended for everyone working with neural data!

Insightful angle for mechanistic interpretability!
doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Neurons around a recording ephys electrode

Diagram of monkey looking at a screen in a neuroscience experiment

Spike rasters for two units in response to a checkerboard shown in the screen. One is an ON neuron, the other is an OFF neuron

Waveforms of single neurons within a single ephys electrode sorted using K-means clustering.

Just uploaded some of my *hand-crafted* comp-neuro teaching materials, thought they might be useful to someone out there.

It's just some exercise notebooks for data analysis github.com/morales-greg...

Non‐Canonical Subiculum Circuit Organization and Function The subiculum is highly interconnected with the hippocampus, sub-regions of the thalamus, and the entorhinal and retrosplenial cortices. Together, these regions form a distributed network that plays ...

Great new update on the subiculum circuits!

Legendary!

Mission: record hippocampal place cells in zero gravity
Crew: 3 rats with electrode arrays
Vehicle: Space Shuttle Columbia
Status: data now publicly available on DANDI, 28 years later

The ratstronauts' mission is finally complete. 🐀🚀 h/t NASA

about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...

Cognitive Neurophysiology (CNP) - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences We are now hiring two PhDs and a Post Doc:Deadline 1st of March:https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/294553/phd-research-fellow-in-machine-learning-for-cognitive-neuroscienceDeadline 4th of ...

We have PhD positions and Post Doc positions available! www.med.uio.no/imb/english/... Please apply if you are interested in human invasive intracranial recordings or applied machine learning in a neuroscientific context.

Deadlines 1st of March (Sunday!) and 4th of March.

Please RT!

I actually couldn't believe it was JUST seven years ago, feels like I've been doing these implants all my life 😅

Just found this image of a DOWN state in posterior parietal cortex I recorded 7 years ago with my first linear probe, I distinctly remember I couldn't believe my own eyes 😵‍💫

Vectorized instructive signals in cortical dendrites - Nature Mice learning a neurofeedback brain–computer interface task show neuron-specific teaching signals in cortical dendrites, consistent with a vectorized solution for credit assignment in the brain.

This paper on how the brain may do gradient descent is very cool: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

DANDI Atlas Explorer Demo YouTube video by DANDI

Where in the brain does DANDI have data? Now you can find out. DANDI Atlas maps datasets onto the Allen CCF mouse brain atlas in interactive 3D. Explore 47 dandisets across 353 brain regions.

atlas.dandiarchive.org

Learn more: about.dandiarchive.org/blog/2026/02...

Neuronal calcium spikes enable vector inversion in the Drosophila brain In the fly central complex, PFNa neurons switch from firing classical sodium spikes when depolarized to firing non-canonical T-type calcium spikes when hyperpolarized. This bidirectional spiking allow...

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

We had a lot of fun working on this project (led by Itzel Ishida, not on bluesky). Some interesting highlights from the paper -

Why You Can’t Remember Being a Toddler This form of amnesia is almost universal, but has long been overlooked.

Why can't you remember being a toddler? Or can you?

Nice feature in Time of our lab's work on infantile amnesia at @tcddublin.bsky.social

Also of the labs of @sarahdpower.bsky.social at MPI Berlin, @franklandlab.bsky.social at Sick Kids, and Nick Turk-Browne at Yale.

time.com/7380496/why-...

🚨JOB alert🚨

We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol.

Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology

⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026
🙏Please circulate widely

😊Come join us!

Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

Brain Mapping: Redefining borders in the sensorimotor cortex

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Place cells in CA1 lack topographical organization of firing locations | PNAS Topography is a well-described and well-known concept for cortical organization in primary sensory and motor cortices of mammalian brains. Similar ...

A half-century old question may have its final answer. Using high-resolution #Mini2P microscopes, we find no evidence of local topography in #PlaceCells. Place fields of neighbouring cells are no more similar than those of randomly selected cells. 🧠🗺️ Out now in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New preprint out 🎉

What happens to the hippocampal “place code” when an animal is actively engaged in a task?

The answer surprised us (and might surprise you too!).

Let's dive in ⬇️

Link:
"Hippocampal trace coding dominates and disrupts place coding" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...