#compneurosci — Public Fediverse posts

"Algorithmic dissection of optic flow memory in larval zebrafish", Tanaka & Portgues 2025
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982225011133

#neuroscience #zebrafish #CompNeurosci

"Forecasting Whole-Brain Neuronal Activity from Volumetric Video", Immer et al. 2025 (with Florian Engert, Jeff Lichtman, Misha Ahrens, Viren Jain and Michal Januszewski)
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.00073

"ZAPBench: a benchmark for whole-brain activity prediction in zebrafish", Lueckmann et al. 2025
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=oCHsDpyawq

#ZAPBench #neuroscience #zebrafish #CalciumImaging #CompNeurosci

"Homeostatic synaptic normalization optimizes learning in network models of neural population codes", Mayzel and Schneidman, 2024.
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/96566

From the assessment:

"... an important contribution to the development of a biologically plausible theory of statistical modeling of spiking activity. The authors convincingly implemented the statistical inference of input likelihood in a simple neural circuit, demonstrating the relationship between synaptic homeostasis, neural representations, and computational accuracy."

#neuroscience #CompNeurosci #synapses

"Selective consolidation of learning and memory via recall-gated plasticity", Lindsey and Litwin-Kumar, 2024.
https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/90793

On forming long-term memories:

"The key component of this model is a mechanism by which a long-term learning and memory system prioritizes the storage of synaptic changes that are consistent with prior updates to the short-term system. This mechanism, which we refer to as recall-gated consolidation, has the effect of shielding long-term memory from spurious synaptic changes, enabling it to focus on reliable signals in the environment."

With a discussion including mammalian and insect brains.

#neuroscience #LearningAndMemory #RecallGatedConsolidation #CompNeurosci