Carlos Brody
carlosbrody.bsky.social
Carlos Brody
@carlosbrody.bsky.social
Neuroscientist, both computational and experimental. Also, parent of a teenager :) . All posts and opinions are in my personal capacity.

professional website: https://brodylab.org
Infinitely worse for non-U.S. citizens of course.

This is why U.S. citizens must stand up and do what we can
November 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I call that a great story 😊
October 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
@earlkmiller.bsky.social , for those of us that don't know, make us happy and tell us the story of what this scholarship is and how it came about.

It sounds awesome ☺️
October 17, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This sounds great! Well done on doing it.

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September 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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You can make up your mind, as marked by nTc, long before you report a decision. And that nTc moment is not timelocked to any external referents (like the onset of the decision report).

Instead, nTc is a covert signal. Internal to the brain.

It was one of the brain's secrets... now revealed.
September 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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That confirmed that in nTc, Thomas and Tim had found a neural marker of decision commitment (a.k.a. "making up your mind").
September 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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They dubbed the estimated moment of the turn "nTc" and predicted that sensory inputs after nTc should not affect the animal's decision. They tested their prediction.

And whoa... the data (black), while noisy, matched the prediction (green) really well.
September 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🤔.. when are you no longer sensitive to inputs? *When you've already made up your mind*.

Thomas and Tim figured that if they could pinpoint the time of the turn, then they could pinpoint the time the animal made up its mind. They developed a method to precisely estimate the moment of turning.
September 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Recording in decision-making regions from many neurons at once revealed the neurons' collective evolution as decisions were made

Each decision had two phases: first, neural state was sensitive to sensory inputs; then, trajectories in neural state space turned and became insensitive to inputs.
September 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM