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Hua Tang
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Professor @BNU, studying neural circuit mechanisms of reinforcement learning and working memory.
https://www.huatang.us/
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=vLO5GgsAAAAJ
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I am excited to announce that I will be joining the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning at Beijing Normal University as a professor starting next month. In the Tang lab, we will employ large-scale recordings and optogenetics to investigate the neural circuit mechanisms (1/3)
I am excited to announce that I will be joining the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning at Beijing Normal University as a professor starting next month. In the Tang lab, we will employ large-scale recordings and optogenetics to investigate the neural circuit mechanisms (1/3)
May 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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one snack to go
January 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
If we don't feel stupid, it means we are not trying hard. 🥹
Three must read papers for PhD students. #scisky #PhD #science #research #academicsky

1. The importance of stupidity in scientific research

Open Access
journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/...
December 15, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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Looking for reviewers before Christmas
December 11, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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December 7, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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#Neuroimaging crowd, hear me out! 👀
Did you ever want to add #EyeTracking to your #fMRI study but found it too much hassle? Got existing data you’d love to add eye tracking to?

Consider trying out *MR-based eye tracking* (i.e. inferring gaze from eye voxels)!

Here is a 🧵 with a few options!👇 1/9
December 2, 2024 at 4:52 PM
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A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say
www.science.org
November 29, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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Another huge influx of colleagues to BlueSky this week, so let me attach the fully updated Neurophysiology starter pack for anyone interested.

go.bsky.app/9FY1ReG
November 30, 2024 at 1:15 AM
我将于北京时间明天早上10点,在“脑人言”的线上会议介绍这项工作。欢迎感兴趣的朋友来一起交流~
I will present this paper to the Chinese community tomorrow morning. Please join us if you speak Chinese.
November 30, 2024 at 2:57 AM
Our paper is published in the latest issue of NEURON. We examined the neural mechanisms involved in learning from the gains and losses of symbolic reinforcers in the ventral frontostriatal circuitry. 🧠
www.cell.com/neuron/abstr...
Ventral frontostriatal circuitry mediates the computation of reinforcement from symbolic gains and losses
Tang et al. show that OFC plays a more important role in learning from symbolic reinforcers than subcortical structures. OFC computes reinforcement signals and sends the information to the VS through ...
www.cell.com
November 21, 2024 at 1:27 PM