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  1. 🧠 New preprint by Greenstreet, Geerts, Gallego, and Clopath on #MotorLearning across #cortex, #cerebellum, and #BasalGanglia.

    Key idea: supervised learning builds a low-dimensional action embedding, and #ReinforcementLearning operates directly in this structured space. This explains generalization, interference, and striatal similarity patterns as geometric consequences, not add-ons.

    🌍 doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.19.69

    #Neuroscience #CompNeuro #RL

  2. Something I always wondered about people with #tourettes and #ticdisorders:

    We're almost always empaths.

    The part of our brain - the #prefrontalcortex - responsible for #empathy is slightly larger than usual while the part of our brain in our #basalganglia regulating motor planning/control, has faulty neuro-pathways and shrunken parts.

    More connections to the PFC as an adaptation, resulting in glitchy motor controls but perhaps very deep emotions.

    #writing #mentalhealth #neuroscience