CMC lab
Computational Machinery of Cognition (CMC) lab focuses on understanding the computational and neural machinery of goal-driven behavior | PI: @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social | shervinsafavi.github.io/cmclab/
- For the first Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social in 2026, @marcusghosh.bsky.social on Jan 15, Thu, 2pm CET, will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ @neural-reckoning.org]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function? @neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint: doi.org/10.1101/2025... 🤖🧠🧪 🧵1/9
- Wanna compare dynamics across different systems? See our fast and furious method developed by us (@armanbehrad.bsky.social @mmdtaha.bsky.social, @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social) together with our wonderful collaborators! You can already use our code: github.com/CMC-lab/fast...
- Wanna compare dynamics across neural data, RNNs, or dynamical systems? We got a fast and furious method🏎️ The 1st preprint of my PhD 🥳 fast dynamical similarity analysis (fastDSA): 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2511.22828 💻: github.com/CMC-lab/fast... I’ll be @cosynemeeting.bsky.social - happy to chat 😉
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Dec 4, Thu, 2pm CET), @hritz.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Jonathan Cohen lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication. At first, what we found was very confusing! But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736 🧵
- Don't miss our posters at #BernsteinConference 😍
- If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇 P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
- Don't miss today's workshop by two of our members (@armanbehrad.bsky.social and @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social) on brain state! bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co... #BernsteinConference
- What defines a brain state? 🧠 If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)
- Oops, wrong time in the original post! It will be 15:30 CET 😉
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Sep 25, Thu, 2pm CET), @dengpan.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Rushworth lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- Oops, wrong time in the original post! It will be 15:30 CET 😉
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Sep 25, Thu, 2pm CET), @dengpan.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Rushworth lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Aug 18, Thu, 2pm CET), Samuel Liebana will tell us about his paper (www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... [joint work w/ @saxelab.bsky.social & @laklab.bsky.social]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social on Aug 28th, Thursday, 2 PM CET, @trinityjchung.com will tell us about her recent paper (👇). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- 1/ What if we make robots that process touch the way our brains do? We found that Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks (ConvRNNs) pass the NeuroAI Turing Test in currently available mouse somatosensory cortex data. New paper by @Yuchen @Nathan @anayebi.bsky.social and me!
- Wanna know how do agents forge better when have a model of their environment? Go to our wonderful collaborator, @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social B90 poster!
- We'll also tell you about real foraging, and also fancier RL models ;-) A wonderful collaboration with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social , Peter Dayan and @alleninstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/roxa...
- We are heading to #CCN2025 in Amsterdam with 3 awesome posters! Thread below 👇 B71, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8... B90, Wed, 1pm-4pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=o... C169, Fri, 2pm-5pm: 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...
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View full threadWanna know about *internal* reinforcement learning? We'll show you seemingly random switches during perceptual multistability is a form informational foraging, is task-modulated & how RL explain them all! Poster B71, Wed 2-5pm, talk to @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=8...
- We'll also tell you about real foraging, and also fancier RL models ;-) A wonderful collaboration with @roxana-zeraati.bsky.social , Peter Dayan and @alleninstitute.org. bsky.app/profile/roxa...
- Looking forward to attending #CCN2025 for the first time and presenting the first steps of my postdoc project! If you’re interested in how learning the temporal structure of the environment affects foraging decisions and how we’re testing this in a naturalistic experiment come by poster B90, Wed.
- An unsupervised method to find behaviorally relevant internal states from data. We tested it w/ RNN & monkey data doing cognitive tasks & RNN trained with deep RL on naturalistic plum tracking task. Visit poster C160, Fri 2-5pm, talk to @armanbehrad.bsky.social 2025.ccneuro.org/poster/?id=l...
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today in ~2h (July 31st, Thursday, 2 PM CET), Jonathan Kasdin will tell us about his recent @nature.com paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social tomorrow (= July 3rd, Thursday, 2 PM CET), @alexandertesmer.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (bsky.app/profile/alex...). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- Policy complexity is expensive. How does the brain regulate its investment of cognitive capacity? Our newest paper is on BioRxiv! We examine hypothalamic orexin (and MCH!) -producing neurons for their role in regulating the complexity decision policies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social tomorrow (= June 26th, Thursday, 2 PM CET), David Clark will tell us about his recent @pnas.org paper (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
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- Alisa, many apologies that we missed your message :( If you send us a gmail (or any email), we will send you the recording of the talk.
- And here is the summary bsky.app/profile/davi... by our speaker, @david-g-clark.bsky.social
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social tomorrow (= June 26th, Thursday, 2 PM CET), David Clark will tell us about his recent @pnas.org paper (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (= May 1st, Thursday, 2 PM CET), @sarthakc.bsky.social will tell us about his recent @nature.com paper (bsky.app/profile/sart...). If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
- 1/ Our paper appeared in @Nature today! www.nature.com/articles/s41... w/ Fiete Lab and @khonamikail.bsky.social . Explains emergence of multiple grid cell modules, w/ excellent match to data! Novel mechanism for applying across vast systems from development to ecosystems. 🧵👇
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (= April 24, Thursday, 2 PM CET), Hongyu Chang will tell us about her recent @nature.com paper www.nature.com/articles/s41.... If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
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- Thanks very much for joining us! We learned a lot :)
- And link to her BlueSky summary: bsky.app/profile/hong...
- SEEING THROUGH YOUR EYES 👁️: Excited to share our new paper (which is out now @nature.com !!) with Wenbo Tang, Antonio Fernandez-Ruiz✉️, and Azahara Oliva✉️: we discovered a novel sleep microstructure that promotes memory replay! #Neuroscience #hippocampus nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵 1/12👇
- Also on BlueSky: @hongyuchang.bsky.social ;-)
- In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (= April 10, Thursday, 2 PM CET), Sage Chen will tell us about his lab recent works, including sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... If you'd like to attend, send an empty email to virtual-talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
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- Sorry for the delay. It was recorded, let's exchange by email.
