#computationalneuroscience — Public Fediverse posts

Gave a talk at the Crick institute on "Does heterogeneity help the brain and how could we know if it did?" part of a series we organised with @marcusghosh. It was fun to present work aimed at generating discussion.

https://neural-reckoning.org/talk_2026_crick_heterogeneity.html

In particular, it was a new experience to present work not primarily to get people excited about the ideas in the work, but to raise questions like: can these ideas be tested? Does this approach to doing computational neuroscience make sense? etc.

We should perhaps do more of this!

#neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience

New preprint! What happens if you add neuromodulation to spiking neural networks and let them go wild with it? TLDR: it can improve performance especially in challenging sensory processing tasks.

Preprint:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.25.666748v1

Short explainer thread on Bluesky:

https://bsky.app/profile/neural-reckoning.org/post/3lz4rihm2622e

#neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience #SpikingNeuralNetwork

It’s actually very easy and straightforward setting up a large-scale, multi-population #SpikingNeuralNetwork (#SNN) with the #NESTsimulator. Here is an example with two distinct populations of #Izhikevich neurons:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2024-06-30-nest_izhikevich_snn/

#ComputationalNeuroscience #CompNeuro #Neuroscience

Mmm...
Once I was surfing the net for some papers in CNS and I came across a paper about Natural Language Processing all of a sudden and I realized There aren't any real Spiking Neural Networks that are bio plausible for NLP.

I started reading some papers and some books to gain more knowledge about Language comprehension and language generation but no real model suggestions yet.

Do anyone know any labs working on NLP in Computational neuroscience or how to connect with them?

#computationalneuroscience #cns #SpikingNeuralNetwork #NLP

A Thousand Brains : a new theory of intelligence

Hi :)
I'm a new member of this amazing community and I would like to have my first post on the amazing breakthrough of Jeff Hawkins.

Before giving my opinion, I would like everyone to tell me whether they know the theory of have they read the book or the original papers and If so what's their insight on them?

I think the material in this research is pretty much fascinating and would like to engage and talk about it more.

#cns #SpikingNeuralNetwork #theory_of_brain #jeff_hawkins
#neuroscience #computationalneuroscience

Hey! 👋 New to mastodon. Hoping to connect to folks posting about #neuroscience, #academia, #antiracism, #BlackInNeuro, #BlackInSTEM, etc. I did my #phd in #computationalneuroscience and am a #postdoc in an #NIH #IRACDA program at #JHU researching cognitive control and decision making through modeling behavioral and intracranial EEG data. I am teaching at Coppin State University, an #HBCU in #Baltimore. Interested in science and activism.

Let me introduce myself! My name is Ilenna Jones, I am a computational neuroscientist with keen interest on how dendrites contribute to a singular neuron's ability to compute functions and learn tasks. I build biophysical models of neurons in #pytorch and use #deeplearning principles to investigate how #neuron models can learn and compute given their biologically realistic constraints.

I'm looking for postdocs right now! Feel free to connect if you're looking for someone like me!

I'm very interested in helping other students find resources and guidance as they consider science and #neuroscience in general. Feel free to connect if you're looking for advice/perspectives!

#computationalneuroscience #theoreticalneuroscience #neuroscience #neuralcomputation #learning #modeling #BlackInNeuro #FirstGen #Questbridge

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