Joshua Brown
@joshbrownneuro.bsky.social
Prof. at IU Bloomington, Psychological and Brain Sciences. Cognitive control and computational neural modeling mostly
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Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.
February 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.
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After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
November 12, 2024 at 9:27 AM
After a great conference in Boston, CCN is going to take place in Amsterdam in 2025! To help the exchange of ideas between #neuroscience, cognitive science, and #AI, CCN will for the first time have full length paper submissions (alongside the established 2 pagers)! Info below👇
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
#NeuroAI #CompNeuro
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Random opinion: stochastic optimal control theory is underrated in NeuroAI and theoretical neuro.
It's one of the most general and useful frameworks out there. Lots of beautiful math and solid proofs. More people should apply it to neuroscience... 🧠🤖
It's one of the most general and useful frameworks out there. Lots of beautiful math and solid proofs. More people should apply it to neuroscience... 🧠🤖
November 20, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Random opinion: stochastic optimal control theory is underrated in NeuroAI and theoretical neuro.
It's one of the most general and useful frameworks out there. Lots of beautiful math and solid proofs. More people should apply it to neuroscience... 🧠🤖
It's one of the most general and useful frameworks out there. Lots of beautiful math and solid proofs. More people should apply it to neuroscience... 🧠🤖
New Neurips spotlight paper -- computational neural model of goal-directed planning in the vmPFC outperforms RL. With Huzi Cheng - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Goal Reduction with Loop-Removal Accelerates RL and Models Human Brain Activity in Goal-Directed Learning
Goal-directed planning presents a challenge for classical RL algorithms due to the vastness of the combinatorial state and goal spaces, while humans and animals adapt to complex environments, especial...
www.biorxiv.org
November 18, 2024 at 4:26 PM
New Neurips spotlight paper -- computational neural model of goal-directed planning in the vmPFC outperforms RL. With Huzi Cheng - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Representational spaces in orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: task states, values, and beyond
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
#neuroscience
Representational spaces in orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: task states, values, and beyond
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and ventromedial-prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) play a key
role in decision-making and encode task states in addition to expected value. We review
evidence suggesting a conne...
www.cell.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Representational spaces in orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: task states, values, and beyond
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
#neuroscience
www.cell.com/trends/neuro...
#neuroscience
Monkey lateral prefrontal cortex cell representations can be modeled as learning to predict future states in a sequence. New preprint with Huzi Cheng, Matt Chafee, Rachael Blackman www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 29, 2024 at 3:33 AM
Monkey lateral prefrontal cortex cell representations can be modeled as learning to predict future states in a sequence. New preprint with Huzi Cheng, Matt Chafee, Rachael Blackman www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...