@MonosovLab

algorithms & circuits of biological and artificial learning, decision making, and emotional control at Johns Hopkins

 Baltimore, MD, USA
jh.monosovlab.org/
Joined July 2016
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Go Julia Pai, Fatih Sogukpinar et al. Heavily revised work on astrocytes role in learning. Incredibly grateful for the team's hard work on this. Extended biology and theory now added! biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…

Ventral striatal astrocytes contribute to reinforcement learning

Astrocytes influence synaptic plasticity and neuronal function through astrocytic calcium dynamics (ACD). However, astrocytes’ contribution to cognitive operations like reinforcement learning (RL)...

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Super happy to announce that we have got an Oral at #NeurIPS! 🥳 Together with amazing @ben_eysenbach, Peter Dayan, & @cpilab, we proposed a notion of controllability to derive bounds linking unsupervised skill learning to downstream goal-reaching. arxiv.org/abs/2605.06145 1/8
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Refining a new movement by practicing it upside down dlvr.​it/TW0ZfK
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Agreed. Very cool
Kepecs Lab@KepecsLabOct 17
One of the coolest electrophysiology results ever... rapidly flickering neural representations reflecting conscious perception Huge congrats @doristsao & @HesseJanis!
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Jacob Prince
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Excited to share our new preprint: Parametric neural control differentiates top neural network models of primate visual cortex biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… with an amazing team: @WangBinxu *, @thomas_fel_ , @akjags , @grez72, @talia_konkle , Parisa Vaziri, and the Livingstone Lab at HMS. @KempnerInst, @PsychHarvard, @harvardmed (2/14)

Parametric neural control differentiates top neural network models of primate visual cortex

Leading deep neural network encoding models predict visual cortical responses with nearly indistinguishable accuracy, raising the strong inference that these models have converged on the same...

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Looking forward to reading!
Neuron@NeuroCellPressOct 8
Neuron continues its three-part series on neuroscience and AI with “Neuroscience and AI: Emerging Synergies”. Explore how brains and AI are converging, from language models and scientific discovery to more brain-like AI systems. The synergy deepens. hubs.li/Q04zzx580
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Very interesting!!! nature.com/articles/s41593-0…

Human claustrum neurons encode uncertainty and prediction errors during aversive learning

Nature Neuroscience - Human claustrum neurons track uncertainty and prediction errors during aversive learning, suggesting a role for the claustrum in updating beliefs and guiding adaptive behavior...

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💔May their memories be a blessing. May those who were injured heal completely. May light and love overcome darkness and hate. Am Yisrael Chai.
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I agree. This is a terrible post. This was a horrible pogrom from which I had the great luck to escape when my parents moved me to America. I stand with the victims of this massacre
Dr. Jan Zimmermann@_janzimmermann_Oct 7
I stand with Israel and all Jews not only on this day but all others. What Mamdani says is a disgrace, an affront to the victims and a clear example of how antisemitic he is.
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absolutely . congrats @KarlDeisseroth and colleagues
Jonathan Kipnis 🟦
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So well deserved recognition! Huge congrats to @KarlDeisseroth and all the winners! 👏👏👏
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Congrats Yao! Not surprised to hear this good news, but happy for you and your team
Yao Chen@yaochen20Oct 1
Grateful for two R01s recently: to develop tools for recording and perturbing biochemical dynamics in the brain (with @jinzhanglab), and to uncover what these dynamics do in vivo. Recruiting postdocs, grad students, and engineers to join our exploration. sites.wustl.edu/yaochenlab/p…

Opportunities

We welcome you to join our scientific adventure to understand the function of neuromodulators and the function of sleep, and become future bridge builders between cellular and systems neuroscience.…

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1/11 How does the brain make the heart skip a beat? New preprint: a prefrontal→hypothalamus circuit that controls heart rate biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…

A prefrontal cortex-hypothalamus circuit for heart rate control in non-human primates

Humans exhibit changes in heart rate during cognitive and emotional events, and dysregulation of this brain–heart coupling is a hallmark of many psychiatric disorders. Yet, how circuits that regulate...

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10/11 In sum, we found a manipulable circuit for top-down control of the heart. We think it's a piece of the foundation for understanding how cognition and emotion shape the body, and a possible target for therapies that restore healthy brain–heart coupling.
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11/11 Congrats to Kevin Xu and colleagues, and a big thank you to my senior co-author, collaborator, and friend @ChenUltrasound
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