José Vergara de la Fuente
@borrepp.bsky.social
Mexican neuroscientists. Movie fan.
BUAP-UNAM 🇲🇽
Postdoc at BCM-Houston
BUAP-UNAM 🇲🇽
Postdoc at BCM-Houston
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Mithra: An Open-Source and Cross-Platform Visualization Toolbox for Human Intracranial Recordings https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.689539v1
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Mithra: An Open-Source and Cross-Platform Visualization Toolbox for Human Intracranial Recordings https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.20.689539v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Selective engagement of the primate orbitofrontal cortex during value-based but not perceptual decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688922v1
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Selective engagement of the primate orbitofrontal cortex during value-based but not perceptual decisions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.17.688922v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Acetylcholine reflects uncertainty during hidden state inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688036v1
November 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Acetylcholine reflects uncertainty during hidden state inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688036v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Observing being touched enhances the neural processing and perception of digital gentle stroking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688063v1
November 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Observing being touched enhances the neural processing and perception of digital gentle stroking https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688063v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688086v1
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Characterizing neuronal population geometry with AI equation discovery https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688086v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Efficient and reproducible pipelines for spike sorting large-scale electrophysiology data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.687966v1
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Efficient and reproducible pipelines for spike sorting large-scale electrophysiology data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.687966v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Decoding brain-wide signatures of uninformed choices for BCI assisted decision-making https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688013v1
November 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Decoding brain-wide signatures of uninformed choices for BCI assisted decision-making https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688013v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Extracting task-relevant preserved dynamics from contrastive aligned neural recordings https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.11.686428v1
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Extracting task-relevant preserved dynamics from contrastive aligned neural recordings https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.11.686428v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Exclusive ipsilateral representation of sequential tactile differences challenges contralateral dominance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688241v1
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Exclusive ipsilateral representation of sequential tactile differences challenges contralateral dominance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.13.688241v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
The Primate Hippocampus Constructs a Temporal Scaffold Anchored to Behavioral Events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.687961v1
November 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The Primate Hippocampus Constructs a Temporal Scaffold Anchored to Behavioral Events https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.687961v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Scalable spike sorting across thousands of neurons by modeling neural dynamics with NeuroSort https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.11.687825v1
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Scalable spike sorting across thousands of neurons by modeling neural dynamics with NeuroSort https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.11.687825v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Super proud to announce Juan Carlos Ramirez’s successful PhD defense! Keep an eye out for his exciting work on thermo-tactile interactions! #proudmentor #phdone @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Super proud to announce Juan Carlos Ramirez’s successful PhD defense! Keep an eye out for his exciting work on thermo-tactile interactions! #proudmentor #phdone @bcmneurosci.bsky.social @bcm-mstp.bsky.social
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Dear bluesky neuroscientists: You should pay attention to the field of LLM mechanistic interpretability.
Not because LLMs are like real brains (they are absolutely nothing alike), but because mech interp analysis methods would be useful in neuroscience.
Start learning here: tinyurl.com/48pum4pb
Not because LLMs are like real brains (they are absolutely nothing alike), but because mech interp analysis methods would be useful in neuroscience.
Start learning here: tinyurl.com/48pum4pb
LLM breakdown 1/6: Tokenization (words to integers)
Large language models can't read; instead, they are given numbers that come from text.
mikexcohen.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Dear bluesky neuroscientists: You should pay attention to the field of LLM mechanistic interpretability.
Not because LLMs are like real brains (they are absolutely nothing alike), but because mech interp analysis methods would be useful in neuroscience.
Start learning here: tinyurl.com/48pum4pb
Not because LLMs are like real brains (they are absolutely nothing alike), but because mech interp analysis methods would be useful in neuroscience.
Start learning here: tinyurl.com/48pum4pb
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Guided by Noise: Correlated Variability Channels Task-Relevant Information in Sensory Neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.669902v1
August 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Guided by Noise: Correlated Variability Channels Task-Relevant Information in Sensory Neurons https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.13.669902v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
High-density, Identified Cell Recordings from Motor Cortex of Awake Behaving Macaques using 1024-channel SiNAPS-NHP Probes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.665434v1
July 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
High-density, Identified Cell Recordings from Motor Cortex of Awake Behaving Macaques using 1024-channel SiNAPS-NHP Probes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.22.665434v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
An online dynamic experimental framework to study single neuron responses in humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.663330v1
July 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
An online dynamic experimental framework to study single neuron responses in humans https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.07.663330v1
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In this “Brain Inspired” episode, Paul Middlebrooks and Xiao-Jing Wang discuss how neuroscience has changed over the past 50 years, and how Wang believes modern theoretical tools will lead to a new era of “cross-levels mechanistic understanding.” Listen now: www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
Xiao-Jing Wang outlines the future of theoretical neuroscience
Wang discusses why he decided the time was right for a new theoretical neuroscience textbook and how bifurcation is a key missing concept in neuroscience explanations.
www.thetransmitter.org
July 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
In this “Brain Inspired” episode, Paul Middlebrooks and Xiao-Jing Wang discuss how neuroscience has changed over the past 50 years, and how Wang believes modern theoretical tools will lead to a new era of “cross-levels mechanistic understanding.” Listen now: www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspir...
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
In many brain areas, neuronal tuning is heterogeneous. But how does this diversity help behavior? We show how tuning diversity shapes representational geometry and boosts coding efficiency for perception in our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(w/ @sueyeonchung.bsky.social&Tony Movshon)
(w/ @sueyeonchung.bsky.social&Tony Movshon)
Variations in neuronal selectivity create efficient representational geometries for perception
Our visual capabilities depend on neural response properties in visual areas of our brains. Neurons exhibit a wide variety of selective response properties, but the reasons for this diversity are unkn...
www.biorxiv.org
June 29, 2025 at 12:19 AM
In many brain areas, neuronal tuning is heterogeneous. But how does this diversity help behavior? We show how tuning diversity shapes representational geometry and boosts coding efficiency for perception in our new preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
(w/ @sueyeonchung.bsky.social&Tony Movshon)
(w/ @sueyeonchung.bsky.social&Tony Movshon)
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Interactions across hemispheres in prefrontal cortex reflect global cognitive processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.12.659406v1
June 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Interactions across hemispheres in prefrontal cortex reflect global cognitive processing https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.12.659406v1
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SpikeInterface is on BSky!
The latest addition to the codebase is UnitRefine for fully automated curation. Check it out, feedback would be appreciated:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The latest addition to the codebase is UnitRefine for fully automated curation. Check it out, feedback would be appreciated:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
SpikeInterface is on BSky!
The latest addition to the codebase is UnitRefine for fully automated curation. Check it out, feedback would be appreciated:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The latest addition to the codebase is UnitRefine for fully automated curation. Check it out, feedback would be appreciated:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
#ecephys #spikesorting
Hi all!
📣📣📣📣📣📣📣
We just released SpikeInterface v0.102.0!
List of major changes and a list of all PRs in the release notes here:
spikeinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/re...
You can update your current version with:
>>> pip install -U spikeinterface
Happy spike sorting!
Hi all!
📣📣📣📣📣📣📣
We just released SpikeInterface v0.102.0!
List of major changes and a list of all PRs in the release notes here:
spikeinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/re...
You can update your current version with:
>>> pip install -U spikeinterface
Happy spike sorting!
SpikeInterface 0.102.0 release notes — SpikeInterface documentation
spikeinterface.readthedocs.io
February 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#ecephys #spikesorting
Hi all!
📣📣📣📣📣📣📣
We just released SpikeInterface v0.102.0!
List of major changes and a list of all PRs in the release notes here:
spikeinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/re...
You can update your current version with:
>>> pip install -U spikeinterface
Happy spike sorting!
Hi all!
📣📣📣📣📣📣📣
We just released SpikeInterface v0.102.0!
List of major changes and a list of all PRs in the release notes here:
spikeinterface.readthedocs.io/en/latest/re...
You can update your current version with:
>>> pip install -U spikeinterface
Happy spike sorting!
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Hey look at this! My new 600-page calculus book has landed:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX6BPPZ8
And the git repo for Python code to reproduce all book figures and exercise solutions:
github.com/mikexcohen/C...
YouTube video explanations of all 162 exercises:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX6BPPZ8
And the git repo for Python code to reproduce all book figures and exercise solutions:
github.com/mikexcohen/C...
YouTube video explanations of all 162 exercises:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Calculus Unraveled: Intuition, Proofs, and Python
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February 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Hey look at this! My new 600-page calculus book has landed:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX6BPPZ8
And the git repo for Python code to reproduce all book figures and exercise solutions:
github.com/mikexcohen/C...
YouTube video explanations of all 162 exercises:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DX6BPPZ8
And the git repo for Python code to reproduce all book figures and exercise solutions:
github.com/mikexcohen/C...
YouTube video explanations of all 162 exercises:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
A Generalist Intracortical Motor Decoder https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.02.634313v1
February 7, 2025 at 4:20 AM
A Generalist Intracortical Motor Decoder https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.02.634313v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Neuropixels Opto: Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.04.636286v1
February 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Neuropixels Opto: Combining high-resolution electrophysiology and optogenetics https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.04.636286v1
Reposted by José Vergara de la Fuente
Apply now for NeuroDataReHack at Janelia (July 14-18). Learn how to access and analyze the over 300 NWB datasets on @www.dandiarchive.org.
Free for accepted participants (meals + lodging included).
Apply by Feb 12: bit.ly/NeuroDataReH...
#Neuroscience #OpenData #DANDI #NWB
Free for accepted participants (meals + lodging included).
Apply by Feb 12: bit.ly/NeuroDataReH...
#Neuroscience #OpenData #DANDI #NWB
NWB Workshops and Hackathons
Materials related to the Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) User Days Workshops and Hackathons
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January 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Apply now for NeuroDataReHack at Janelia (July 14-18). Learn how to access and analyze the over 300 NWB datasets on @www.dandiarchive.org.
Free for accepted participants (meals + lodging included).
Apply by Feb 12: bit.ly/NeuroDataReH...
#Neuroscience #OpenData #DANDI #NWB
Free for accepted participants (meals + lodging included).
Apply by Feb 12: bit.ly/NeuroDataReH...
#Neuroscience #OpenData #DANDI #NWB