Rubén Moreno-Bote
@morenobote.bsky.social
Bluesky in Barcelona
Computational Neuroscience & Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Serra Hunter Professor
Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
https://sites.google.com/view/morenobotecompneuro?pli=1
Computational Neuroscience & Natural and Artificial Intelligence
Serra Hunter Professor
Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
https://sites.google.com/view/morenobotecompneuro?pli=1
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Rubén Moreno-Bote
@morenobote.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Maximum Occupancy Principle (MOP),
our most recent work.
We present a novel intrinsic motivation for natural behavior: occupying action-state path space.
This sole objective is enough to produce goal-directed, complex, highly variable and interesting behaviors
nature.com/articles/s41...
our most recent work.
We present a novel intrinsic motivation for natural behavior: occupying action-state path space.
This sole objective is enough to produce goal-directed, complex, highly variable and interesting behaviors
nature.com/articles/s41...
📷PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience and AI, Moreno-Bote Lab, Barcelona.
1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.
1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.
September 12, 2025 at 11:24 AM
📷PhD Position in Computational Neuroscience and AI, Moreno-Bote Lab, Barcelona.
1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.
1 fully funded PhD position is available. Deadline November 2025. See post below.
www.upf.edu/web/phd-engi...
Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship at UPF, for Female Researchers of African nationality only. If you hold a degree in Physics, Computer Science or Mathematics, please, apply to my comp neuro theory lab. Send me your CV and transcript of grades to my email.
Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship at UPF, for Female Researchers of African nationality only. If you hold a degree in Physics, Computer Science or Mathematics, please, apply to my comp neuro theory lab. Send me your CV and transcript of grades to my email.
Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship - PhD in Information and Communication Technologies - UPF
www.upf.edu
September 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
www.upf.edu/web/phd-engi...
Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship at UPF, for Female Researchers of African nationality only. If you hold a degree in Physics, Computer Science or Mathematics, please, apply to my comp neuro theory lab. Send me your CV and transcript of grades to my email.
Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship at UPF, for Female Researchers of African nationality only. If you hold a degree in Physics, Computer Science or Mathematics, please, apply to my comp neuro theory lab. Send me your CV and transcript of grades to my email.
Do you "look at nothing" when making a decision?
Here we provide further evidence about the connection betwee gaze into nothing and decision confidence, revealing more on the sequential hidden dynamics of decisions
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Here we provide further evidence about the connection betwee gaze into nothing and decision confidence, revealing more on the sequential hidden dynamics of decisions
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The relationship between confidence and gaze-at-nothing oculomotor dynamics during decision-making
How does confidence relate to oculomotor dynamics during decision-making? Do oculomotor dynamics reflect deliberation and the buildup of confidence in the absence of visual stimuli? Here we examine th...
journals.plos.org
July 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Do you "look at nothing" when making a decision?
Here we provide further evidence about the connection betwee gaze into nothing and decision confidence, revealing more on the sequential hidden dynamics of decisions
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Here we provide further evidence about the connection betwee gaze into nothing and decision confidence, revealing more on the sequential hidden dynamics of decisions
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Great work with @d-ferro.bsky.social and Ben Hayden
Just posted a @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social preprint! 📝
Accumulating tokens towards a jackpot enhances decision speed and accuracy, as well as value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex 🧠. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to @morenobote.bsky.social, @benhayden.bsky.social, and @upf.edu
Accumulating tokens towards a jackpot enhances decision speed and accuracy, as well as value encoding in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex 🧠. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Thanks to @morenobote.bsky.social, @benhayden.bsky.social, and @upf.edu
March 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Great work with @d-ferro.bsky.social and Ben Hayden
New open PhD position in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience in my lab.
We want to discover the basis of natural intelligence.
Please, spread the word, and apply if interested.
See more details below.
We want to discover the basis of natural intelligence.
Please, spread the word, and apply if interested.
See more details below.
March 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
New open PhD position in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience in my lab.
We want to discover the basis of natural intelligence.
Please, spread the word, and apply if interested.
See more details below.
We want to discover the basis of natural intelligence.
Please, spread the word, and apply if interested.
See more details below.
Reposted by Rubén Moreno-Bote
Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025
BAMB!
Course philosophy
Our goal is to teach advanced techniques in model-based analysis of behavior (humans and other animals) to cognitive and computational neuroscientists at PhD and early career levels...
bambschool.org
January 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025
Open PhD position in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience in my lab.
We want to discover the basis of natural intelligence.
Please, spread the word, and apply if interested.
See more details below.
We want to discover the basis of natural intelligence.
Please, spread the word, and apply if interested.
See more details below.
December 8, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Open PhD position in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience in my lab.
We want to discover the basis of natural intelligence.
Please, spread the word, and apply if interested.
See more details below.
We want to discover the basis of natural intelligence.
Please, spread the word, and apply if interested.
See more details below.
Reposted by Rubén Moreno-Bote
Would be great to be added. Thanks! Credentials: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
December 5, 2024 at 8:05 AM
Would be great to be added. Thanks! Credentials: scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Reposted by Rubén Moreno-Bote
Sure! Eg, here is my latest with Brent Doiron and others using linear response theory in circuits with multiple inhibitory subtypes: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
December 5, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Sure! Eg, here is my latest with Brent Doiron and others using linear response theory in circuits with multiple inhibitory subtypes: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
Reposted by Rubén Moreno-Bote
Come to the San Juan Islands next summer to learn about some awesome data and hang out with a bunch of awesome scientists ... and me.
Summer camp for neuroscientists! 🌲🐋🧠
Applications are now open for our Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain in the gorgeous San Juan Islands. #SWDB2025
🧠✨ Learn more and apply by February 1, 2025: alleninstitute.org/events/summe...
#neuroskyence
Applications are now open for our Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain in the gorgeous San Juan Islands. #SWDB2025
🧠✨ Learn more and apply by February 1, 2025: alleninstitute.org/events/summe...
#neuroskyence
Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2025
The Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course with a focus on the neurobiology of sensory processing, coding, and neural population dynamics.
alleninstitute.org
December 5, 2024 at 6:17 AM
Come to the San Juan Islands next summer to learn about some awesome data and hang out with a bunch of awesome scientists ... and me.
Reposted by Rubén Moreno-Bote
I have created this space to focus on theoretical neuroscience.
Totally biased to theory.
go.bsky.app/3TNRgME
Totally biased to theory.
go.bsky.app/3TNRgME
December 4, 2024 at 11:07 AM
I have created this space to focus on theoretical neuroscience.
Totally biased to theory.
go.bsky.app/3TNRgME
Totally biased to theory.
go.bsky.app/3TNRgME
December 3, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Playful behavior from the maximum occupancy principle. Maximizing action-state path entropy triggers object-oriented behavior, with curiosity and play as emerging intrinsic motivations
Check out our IMOL @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=SzeK0...
Work led by Chiara Mastrogiuseppe
Check out our IMOL @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=SzeK0...
Work led by Chiara Mastrogiuseppe
openreview.net
December 2, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Playful behavior from the maximum occupancy principle. Maximizing action-state path entropy triggers object-oriented behavior, with curiosity and play as emerging intrinsic motivations
Check out our IMOL @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=SzeK0...
Work led by Chiara Mastrogiuseppe
Check out our IMOL @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=SzeK0...
Work led by Chiara Mastrogiuseppe
State-of-the-art stochastic optimal control for dynamical systems with multiplicative observation and control noise, improving over well-known approaches
Check out our @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=mZHbk...
presented also at @Behavioral ML 2024
openreview.net/pdf?id=jAOwx...
Check out our @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=mZHbk...
presented also at @Behavioral ML 2024
openreview.net/pdf?id=jAOwx...
openreview.net
December 2, 2024 at 9:53 PM
State-of-the-art stochastic optimal control for dynamical systems with multiplicative observation and control noise, improving over well-known approaches
Check out our @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=mZHbk...
presented also at @Behavioral ML 2024
openreview.net/pdf?id=jAOwx...
Check out our @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=mZHbk...
presented also at @Behavioral ML 2024
openreview.net/pdf?id=jAOwx...
NeuroMOP: the goal of the brain is to occupy activity space while avoiding terminal states (maximum occupancy principle). This leads to large neural variability and rich network behaviors
Check out our @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=yXW2d...
With Chiara Mastrogiuseppe
Check out our @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=yXW2d...
With Chiara Mastrogiuseppe
openreview.net
December 2, 2024 at 9:52 PM
NeuroMOP: the goal of the brain is to occupy activity space while avoiding terminal states (maximum occupancy principle). This leads to large neural variability and rich network behaviors
Check out our @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=yXW2d...
With Chiara Mastrogiuseppe
Check out our @neuripsconf.bsky.social paper
openreview.net/pdf?id=yXW2d...
With Chiara Mastrogiuseppe
Several lab papers at @NeurIPSConf, described in subsequent posts
openreview.net/pdf?id=yXW2d...
openreview.net/pdf?id=mZHbk...
openreview.net/pdf?id=jAOwx...
openreview.net/pdf?id=SzeK0...
Work with C Mastrogiusepe, F Damiani, @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social, A Anzai and G DeAngelis
openreview.net/pdf?id=yXW2d...
openreview.net/pdf?id=mZHbk...
openreview.net/pdf?id=jAOwx...
openreview.net/pdf?id=SzeK0...
Work with C Mastrogiusepe, F Damiani, @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social, A Anzai and G DeAngelis
December 2, 2024 at 9:50 PM
Several lab papers at @NeurIPSConf, described in subsequent posts
openreview.net/pdf?id=yXW2d...
openreview.net/pdf?id=mZHbk...
openreview.net/pdf?id=jAOwx...
openreview.net/pdf?id=SzeK0...
Work with C Mastrogiusepe, F Damiani, @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social, A Anzai and G DeAngelis
openreview.net/pdf?id=yXW2d...
openreview.net/pdf?id=mZHbk...
openreview.net/pdf?id=jAOwx...
openreview.net/pdf?id=SzeK0...
Work with C Mastrogiusepe, F Damiani, @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social, A Anzai and G DeAngelis
1/2 Brain and Cognition Master at
@UPFBarcelona
Please, spread the word
Why to enroll here?
Nuria Sebastian-Galles (language, Premio Nacional)
Gustavo Deco (comp neuro)
Chris Summerfield (cognition & AI)
Salva Soto-Faraco (attention)
Rubén Moreno-Bote (comp neuro & AI)
@UPFBarcelona
Please, spread the word
Why to enroll here?
Nuria Sebastian-Galles (language, Premio Nacional)
Gustavo Deco (comp neuro)
Chris Summerfield (cognition & AI)
Salva Soto-Faraco (attention)
Rubén Moreno-Bote (comp neuro & AI)
December 1, 2024 at 11:03 AM
1/2 Brain and Cognition Master at
@UPFBarcelona
Please, spread the word
Why to enroll here?
Nuria Sebastian-Galles (language, Premio Nacional)
Gustavo Deco (comp neuro)
Chris Summerfield (cognition & AI)
Salva Soto-Faraco (attention)
Rubén Moreno-Bote (comp neuro & AI)
@UPFBarcelona
Please, spread the word
Why to enroll here?
Nuria Sebastian-Galles (language, Premio Nacional)
Gustavo Deco (comp neuro)
Chris Summerfield (cognition & AI)
Salva Soto-Faraco (attention)
Rubén Moreno-Bote (comp neuro & AI)
Reposted by Rubén Moreno-Bote
Early start for Mexico City 🇲🇽 I'm excited to speaking at Qualia - the first psychedelic science conference in Mexico 🧠 www.qualiaps.org I'm looking forward to catching up with @robincarhartharris.bsky.social & others there too. It's happening 29-30 Nov.
November 28, 2024 at 6:39 AM
Early start for Mexico City 🇲🇽 I'm excited to speaking at Qualia - the first psychedelic science conference in Mexico 🧠 www.qualiaps.org I'm looking forward to catching up with @robincarhartharris.bsky.social & others there too. It's happening 29-30 Nov.
November 28, 2024 at 7:22 AM
Reposted by Rubén Moreno-Bote
Postdoctoral position available with us and David Rios (www.davidriosinsua.es at ICMAT, bsky.app/profile/icma...) on collective behavior. Deadline Dec 20th, more info and application: aihub.csic.es/en/allies-co...
November 27, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Postdoctoral position available with us and David Rios (www.davidriosinsua.es at ICMAT, bsky.app/profile/icma...) on collective behavior. Deadline Dec 20th, more info and application: aihub.csic.es/en/allies-co...
Maximum Occupancy Principle (MOP),
our most recent work.
We present a novel intrinsic motivation for natural behavior: occupying action-state path space.
This sole objective is enough to produce goal-directed, complex, highly variable and interesting behaviors
nature.com/articles/s41...
our most recent work.
We present a novel intrinsic motivation for natural behavior: occupying action-state path space.
This sole objective is enough to produce goal-directed, complex, highly variable and interesting behaviors
nature.com/articles/s41...
November 20, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Maximum Occupancy Principle (MOP),
our most recent work.
We present a novel intrinsic motivation for natural behavior: occupying action-state path space.
This sole objective is enough to produce goal-directed, complex, highly variable and interesting behaviors
nature.com/articles/s41...
our most recent work.
We present a novel intrinsic motivation for natural behavior: occupying action-state path space.
This sole objective is enough to produce goal-directed, complex, highly variable and interesting behaviors
nature.com/articles/s41...
Hi all 👋, I am new here.
We are a Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience group at Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
We draw inspirations from neuroscience for future AI.
Maximum Occupancy Principle.
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #neuroai #compneurosky
We are a Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience group at Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
We draw inspirations from neuroscience for future AI.
Maximum Occupancy Principle.
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #neuroai #compneurosky
November 18, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Hi all 👋, I am new here.
We are a Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience group at Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
We draw inspirations from neuroscience for future AI.
Maximum Occupancy Principle.
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #neuroai #compneurosky
We are a Computational and Theoretical Neuroscience group at Univ. Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
We draw inspirations from neuroscience for future AI.
Maximum Occupancy Principle.
#neuroscience #neuroskyence #neuroai #compneurosky