Charles Burns
@charlesdgburns.bsky.social
Food for thought when describing 'mechanisms' in the brain.
I still think 'softer' definitions of mechanism (computational rather than physiological) will help us discover the 'harder' mechanisms.
I'll be very surprised if the brain doesn't compute with attractors.
I still think 'softer' definitions of mechanism (computational rather than physiological) will help us discover the 'harder' mechanisms.
I'll be very surprised if the brain doesn't compute with attractors.
Attractors are usually not mechanisms - new blog post: open.substack.com/pub/kording/...
Attractors are usually not mechanisms
The mathematical objects can not be. And the "attractor models" have not been established as mechanisms in mammals
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July 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Food for thought when describing 'mechanisms' in the brain.
I still think 'softer' definitions of mechanism (computational rather than physiological) will help us discover the 'harder' mechanisms.
I'll be very surprised if the brain doesn't compute with attractors.
I still think 'softer' definitions of mechanism (computational rather than physiological) will help us discover the 'harder' mechanisms.
I'll be very surprised if the brain doesn't compute with attractors.
Reposted by Charles Burns
My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
June 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
My latest Aronov lab paper is now published @Nature!
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum
When a chickadee looks at a distant location, the same place cells activate as if it were actually there 👁️
The hippocampus encodes where the bird is looking, AND what it expects to see next -- enabling spatial reasoning from afar
bit.ly/3HvWSum