Nick Audette (He/His)
@njaudette.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience at UConn Storrs. We study how the brain uses context and experience to make sense of the sensory world.
I like music, birds, tacos, my cats, cycling, frisbees, and some other stuff too.
www.AudetteLab.com
I like music, birds, tacos, my cats, cycling, frisbees, and some other stuff too.
www.AudetteLab.com
Excited to see this amazing work out! Congrats!
Excited to announce that our latest paper is now out: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...
Here we uncover a simple cortical code for loudness and leverage it reverse sound hypersensitivity disorders in mice.
#neuroskyence
Here we uncover a simple cortical code for loudness and leverage it reverse sound hypersensitivity disorders in mice.
#neuroskyence
Cortical PV interneurons regulate loudness perception and sustainably reverse loudness hypersensitivity
Noise damages the cochlea, triggering maladaptive plasticity in the auditory cortex
(ACtx) that makes moderate-intensity sounds seem uncomfortably loud. Clayton, Awwad,
McGill, et al. show that brief ...
www.cell.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Excited to see this amazing work out! Congrats!
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Super excited to share the first part of my thesis work!
Perhaps how you might be able to both recognize someone’s voice *and* understand what they’re saying, we find that both social identity and vocalization category can be decoded from gerbil auditory cortex activity👂🧠
tinyurl.com/4fba6wk4
Perhaps how you might be able to both recognize someone’s voice *and* understand what they’re saying, we find that both social identity and vocalization category can be decoded from gerbil auditory cortex activity👂🧠
tinyurl.com/4fba6wk4
October 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Super excited to share the first part of my thesis work!
Perhaps how you might be able to both recognize someone’s voice *and* understand what they’re saying, we find that both social identity and vocalization category can be decoded from gerbil auditory cortex activity👂🧠
tinyurl.com/4fba6wk4
Perhaps how you might be able to both recognize someone’s voice *and* understand what they’re saying, we find that both social identity and vocalization category can be decoded from gerbil auditory cortex activity👂🧠
tinyurl.com/4fba6wk4
Big week! First neural recordings in the new lab and first common nighthawk photos
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Big week! First neural recordings in the new lab and first common nighthawk photos
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
A new preprint from our lab with @zelechowski.bsky.social & @georgkeller.bsky.social !
Using wireless EEG + VR, we recorded visuomotor mismatch responses in freely moving humans.
Huge thanks to all participants, Keller Lab members and FMI facilities!
Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using wireless EEG + VR, we recorded visuomotor mismatch responses in freely moving humans.
Huge thanks to all participants, Keller Lab members and FMI facilities!
Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
August 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A new preprint from our lab with @zelechowski.bsky.social & @georgkeller.bsky.social !
Using wireless EEG + VR, we recorded visuomotor mismatch responses in freely moving humans.
Huge thanks to all participants, Keller Lab members and FMI facilities!
Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Using wireless EEG + VR, we recorded visuomotor mismatch responses in freely moving humans.
Huge thanks to all participants, Keller Lab members and FMI facilities!
Read more: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
Thrilled to share our new Adesnik lab paper!!
Using holography in excitatory & inhibitory neurons, we reveal how a single cortical circuit can both complete and cancel predictable sensory activity, sharpening representations
📄https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1
🧵
Using holography in excitatory & inhibitory neurons, we reveal how a single cortical circuit can both complete and cancel predictable sensory activity, sharpening representations
📄https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1
🧵
August 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Thrilled to share our new Adesnik lab paper!!
Using holography in excitatory & inhibitory neurons, we reveal how a single cortical circuit can both complete and cancel predictable sensory activity, sharpening representations
📄https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1
🧵
Using holography in excitatory & inhibitory neurons, we reveal how a single cortical circuit can both complete and cancel predictable sensory activity, sharpening representations
📄https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1
🧵
The lab is growing! Our team is seeking talented scientists to study flexible sensory processing. We design freely-moving and head-fixed acoustic behaviors alongside acute and wireless neural recordings. PD and grad roles available
Please help spread the word 🙏🧠🎵🐭
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38911/po...
Please help spread the word 🙏🧠🎵🐭
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38911/po...
Postdoctoral Neuroscience Researcher - Storrs Mansfield, Connecticut job with Audette Lab, University of Connecticut | 38911
Fully funded postdoctoral research position studying context-dependent sensory processing in the mouse motor and auditory thalamus and cortex.
neurojobs.sfn.org
August 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The lab is growing! Our team is seeking talented scientists to study flexible sensory processing. We design freely-moving and head-fixed acoustic behaviors alongside acute and wireless neural recordings. PD and grad roles available
Please help spread the word 🙏🧠🎵🐭
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38911/po...
Please help spread the word 🙏🧠🎵🐭
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38911/po...
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
It’s finally happening 🥹 save the date for our very first in-person event!! Fill out our interest form if you’ll be in SD for #sfn25 or otherwise, or fill it out even if you won’t be able to make it - we’re also gathering interest in a virtual streaming option!! Stay tuned for more details to come!!
✨EXCITING NEWS!✨We're hosting our first ever, in-person event! Join us immediately before #SFN for a keynote, panel discussions, networking & more! Interested in attending? Fill out the form below:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Nov 15 | 9am-1pm | Tata Hall at UCSD
Help us spread the word!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Nov 15 | 9am-1pm | Tata Hall at UCSD
Help us spread the word!
July 29, 2025 at 2:50 AM
It’s finally happening 🥹 save the date for our very first in-person event!! Fill out our interest form if you’ll be in SD for #sfn25 or otherwise, or fill it out even if you won’t be able to make it - we’re also gathering interest in a virtual streaming option!! Stay tuned for more details to come!!
I’ve had a tough time getting a camera on Great Crested Flycatchers in good lighting - until today when I found a nesting pair at Bent of the River Sanctuary.
July 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I’ve had a tough time getting a camera on Great Crested Flycatchers in good lighting - until today when I found a nesting pair at Bent of the River Sanctuary.
A job ad, in this economy?That’s right! We’re looking for talented postdocs to join our growing team studying flexible sensory processing in the auditory system and beyond. Check out the ad or www.audettelab.com to learn more about our exciting directions!
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38911/po...
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38911/po...
Postdoctoral Neuroscience Researcher - Storrs Mansfield, Connecticut job with Audette Lab, University of Connecticut | 38911
Fully funded postdoctoral research position studying context-dependent sensory processing in the mouse motor and auditory thalamus and cortex.
neurojobs.sfn.org
July 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A job ad, in this economy?That’s right! We’re looking for talented postdocs to join our growing team studying flexible sensory processing in the auditory system and beyond. Check out the ad or www.audettelab.com to learn more about our exciting directions!
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38911/po...
neurojobs.sfn.org/job/38911/po...
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health.
But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."
But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."
Donald Trump’s proposed budget would gut American science
It would slash cancer research, drug trials, space exploration, and so much more.
www.motherjones.com
May 31, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health.
But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."
But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
New preprint, w/ @predictivebrain.bsky.social !
we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features
The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features
The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Higher-level spatial prediction in natural vision across mouse visual cortex
Theories of predictive processing propose that sensory systems constantly predict incoming signals, based on spatial and temporal context. However, evidence for prediction in sensory cortex largely co...
www.biorxiv.org
May 23, 2025 at 11:39 AM
New preprint, w/ @predictivebrain.bsky.social !
we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features
The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
we've found that visual cortex, even when just viewing natural scenes, predicts *higher-level* visual features
The aligns with developments in ML, but challenges some assumptions about early sensory cortex
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
The White House has relied on researchers’ unfamiliarity with political fights... what is required is to pull up stakes from those channels the White House has already shattered and move to the field of mass public opinion ... to meet them on ground where a decisive victory is possible.
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-pat...
A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
Over the past four months I’ve spoken to dozens of biomedical researchers...
talkingpointsmemo.com
May 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The White House has relied on researchers’ unfamiliarity with political fights... what is required is to pull up stakes from those channels the White House has already shattered and move to the field of mass public opinion ... to meet them on ground where a decisive victory is possible.
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
NSF has posted an “update on priorities.”
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants.
And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent.
www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...
Updates on NSF Priorities
www.nsf.gov
April 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
(Plz repost)
I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation.
pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu
Tyvm
I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation.
pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu
Tyvm
April 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
(Plz repost)
I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation.
pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu
Tyvm
I’ve been receiving some good news lately and will be hiring at all levels to expand the lab. Please get in contact if you are interested in reinforcement learning, neural plasticity, neural circuit dynamics, and/or hearing rehabilitation.
pierre.apostolides @ umich .edu
Tyvm
Proud to have been a small part of this massive undertaking! This project brought together an array of expertise and perspectives to connect our knowledge of predictive processing in the brain.
How does our brain predict the future? Our review of predictive processing + research program is now on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614
50+ neuroscientists distributed across the world worked together to create this unique community project.
50+ neuroscientists distributed across the world worked together to create this unique community project.
April 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Proud to have been a small part of this massive undertaking! This project brought together an array of expertise and perspectives to connect our knowledge of predictive processing in the brain.
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
Now there's a memorable stat!
"Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined."
wapo.st/3EvzMCI
"Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined."
wapo.st/3EvzMCI
Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports
The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
wapo.st
April 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Now there's a memorable stat!
"Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined."
wapo.st/3EvzMCI
"Colleges and universities are among America’s most competitive international exporters. In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined."
wapo.st/3EvzMCI
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Excited to share my latest work just out in @pnas.org! This NIH MOSAIC K99-funded project identifies a top-down cortical circuit—from cingulate to auditory cortex—that supports auditory perceptual performance in challenging listening conditions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The cingulate cortex facilitates auditory perception under challenging listening conditions | PNAS
We often exert greater cognitive resources (i.e., listening effort) to understand
speech under challenging acoustic conditions. This mechanism can ...
www.pnas.org
April 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Excited to share my latest work just out in @pnas.org! This NIH MOSAIC K99-funded project identifies a top-down cortical circuit—from cingulate to auditory cortex—that supports auditory perceptual performance in challenging listening conditions: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Reposted by Nick Audette (He/His)
How should you combine sensory inputs with your internal predictions? Well, use uncertainty directly computed by your prediction-error circuits. Cool? Check out our Nat. Com. paper with Loreen Hertäg and @k47h4.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Uncertainty estimation with prediction-error circuits - Nature Communications
How the brain integrates sensory input and predictions to adapt to change is not fully understood. Here authors build a neural network model to show how prediction-error neurons compute uncertainty of...
www.nature.com
March 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
How should you combine sensory inputs with your internal predictions? Well, use uncertainty directly computed by your prediction-error circuits. Cool? Check out our Nat. Com. paper with Loreen Hertäg and @k47h4.bsky.social . www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Who’s at #COSYNE2025 ? Excited to present my postdoc work on projection-specific and multi-area auditory processing of (mouse) baby cries on Friday:
March 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Who’s at #COSYNE2025 ? Excited to present my postdoc work on projection-specific and multi-area auditory processing of (mouse) baby cries on Friday:
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"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
March 27, 2025 at 12:53 AM
"A terrified young student, snatched off the street by a masked police force taken thousands of miles across the country without anyone knowing. It is as flatly authoritarian as anything we have ever seen in this country," says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk's detention.
Join our brand-new lab at UConn studying flexible sensory processing in mice! We're hiring a full-time lab tech - a great fit for recent grads looking to get experience with systems and behavioral neuroscience research.
Apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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March 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Join our brand-new lab at UConn studying flexible sensory processing in mice! We're hiring a full-time lab tech - a great fit for recent grads looking to get experience with systems and behavioral neuroscience research.
Apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Apply here: jobs.hr.uconn.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Let's start things off strong with some cat content, starring the Audette Lab mascots: Nimbus and Cirrus
March 7, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Let's start things off strong with some cat content, starring the Audette Lab mascots: Nimbus and Cirrus