Martín Irani-Cereceda
@martinirani.bsky.social
Neuroscience grad student @ University of Illinois. Cognitive control, meso- and large-scale brain networks dynamics. 🇨🇱
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High-frequency bursts facilitate fast communication for human spatial attention
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High-frequency bursts facilitate fast communication for human spatial attention - Nature Neuroscience
Using intracranial electroencephalography from patients with epilepsy during spatial attention tasks, this study shows that high-frequency bursts facilitate fast communications in brain networks and s...
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December 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
High-frequency bursts facilitate fast communication for human spatial attention
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Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
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Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature
The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces
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When you record spikes, you also record LFPs. It’s ironic to hear people claim oscillations don’t matter while they are discarding the very data that could test that. As Thomas Kuhn would say…
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November 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
When you record spikes, you also record LFPs. It’s ironic to hear people claim oscillations don’t matter while they are discarding the very data that could test that. As Thomas Kuhn would say…
#neuroscience
#neuroscience
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"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors."
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/49hp8fS #NationalMentoringDay
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/49hp8fS #NationalMentoringDay
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors."
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/49hp8fS #NationalMentoringDay
One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 Working Life essay. https://scim.ag/49hp8fS #NationalMentoringDay
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The functional role of oscillatory dynamics in neocortical circuits: A computational perspective
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The functional role of oscillatory dynamics in neocortical circuits: A computational perspective | PNAS
The dynamics of neuronal systems are characterized by hallmark features such as oscillations
and synchrony. However, it has remained unclear whethe...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The functional role of oscillatory dynamics in neocortical circuits: A computational perspective
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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Last year, a special issue of Science explored the complex and close associations #rats share with humans—from their ubiquity in the human environment to their crucial role as biomedical models.
🐀 Learn more: https://scim.ag/46VBOrb #ScienceMagArchives
🐀 Learn more: https://scim.ag/46VBOrb #ScienceMagArchives
September 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Last year, a special issue of Science explored the complex and close associations #rats share with humans—from their ubiquity in the human environment to their crucial role as biomedical models.
🐀 Learn more: https://scim.ag/46VBOrb #ScienceMagArchives
🐀 Learn more: https://scim.ag/46VBOrb #ScienceMagArchives
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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 “Steven Rose obituary: Vituperative neuroscientist,” in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
Steven Rose obituary: Vituperative neuroscientist
Academic who showed little tolerance for IQ testing, but made steps towards a treatment for Alzheimer’s, dies aged 87
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August 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 “Steven Rose obituary: Vituperative neuroscientist,” in 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠
www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...
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How is prefrontal neural activity refined as we age?
Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development.
Proud to have contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development.
Proud to have contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
July 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
How is prefrontal neural activity refined as we age?
Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development.
Proud to have contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com! This study, from Elizabeth Johnson, uncovers how subtle changes in neural 'noise' impact our attention, memory, and cognition through development.
Proud to have contributed!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I’m excited to share my final co-first author paper from my postdoc in Dan Dombeck's lab!
We explored how behavior, senses, and neurons influence how much information in the brain changes over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #research #neuroscience #hippocampus #placecells
We explored how behavior, senses, and neurons influence how much information in the brain changes over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #research #neuroscience #hippocampus #placecells
Hippocampal representations drift in stable multisensory environments - Nature
Tracking of individual place cells in mouse CA1 shows that representational drift is not influenced by changes in environment or behaviour, and is lower for more excitable place cells.
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July 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I’m excited to share my final co-first author paper from my postdoc in Dan Dombeck's lab!
We explored how behavior, senses, and neurons influence how much information in the brain changes over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #research #neuroscience #hippocampus #placecells
We explored how behavior, senses, and neurons influence how much information in the brain changes over time.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#science #research #neuroscience #hippocampus #placecells
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🚨 Neuro postdocs & grad students: Have a story to tell? Want to practice a talk before a conference or interview? Join our new seminar series on the Isthmus! All are welcome (from around the 🌎). Submit by Aug 20. Share your story (and this ad)!
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July 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
🚨 Neuro postdocs & grad students: Have a story to tell? Want to practice a talk before a conference or interview? Join our new seminar series on the Isthmus! All are welcome (from around the 🌎). Submit by Aug 20. Share your story (and this ad)!
(Ping me for Qs)
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(Ping me for Qs)
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Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate science, reduce costs and increase the value of investments. But to date, the field hasn't placed equal emphasis on the reuse side of the data-sharing equation, writes @bendichter.com
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Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments.
Data reuse represents an opportunity to accelerate the pace of science, reduce costs and increase the value of our collective research investments. New tools that make open data easier to use—and new…
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July 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Excellent episode of BrainInspired with @xjwang.bsky.social discussing his new book ++.
TIL about his link w/ Rosemary Kennedy (via 2 degrees of separation).
I'm really looking forward to @thetransmitter.bsky.social piece he mentions on bifurcation.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
TIL about his link w/ Rosemary Kennedy (via 2 degrees of separation).
I'm really looking forward to @thetransmitter.bsky.social piece he mentions on bifurcation.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
July 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Excellent episode of BrainInspired with @xjwang.bsky.social discussing his new book ++.
TIL about his link w/ Rosemary Kennedy (via 2 degrees of separation).
I'm really looking forward to @thetransmitter.bsky.social piece he mentions on bifurcation.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
TIL about his link w/ Rosemary Kennedy (via 2 degrees of separation).
I'm really looking forward to @thetransmitter.bsky.social piece he mentions on bifurcation.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
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Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Discovering cognitive strategies with tiny recurrent neural networks - Nature
Modelling biological decision-making with tiny recurrent neural networks enables more accurate predictions of animal choices than classical cognitive models and offers insights into the underlying cog...
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July 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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The firing of neural populations is high-dim even if their subthreshold activity is low-dim! This work by @bio-emergent.bsky.social and @haydari.bsky.social shows how, with a solvable model, a data analysis technique, and data from mouse visual cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
High-dimensional neuronal activity from low-dimensional latent dynamics: a solvable model
Computation in recurrent networks of neurons has been hypothesized to occur at the level of low-dimensional latent dynamics, both in artificial systems and in the brain. This hypothesis seems at odds ...
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June 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The firing of neural populations is high-dim even if their subthreshold activity is low-dim! This work by @bio-emergent.bsky.social and @haydari.bsky.social shows how, with a solvable model, a data analysis technique, and data from mouse visual cortex: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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New paper (I played a minor role in)!
Representational similarities in mouse auditory cortex remain stable during drift. When Taka Noda ablated neurons, these similarities destabilized but recovered within days - previously unresponsive neurons stepped up to fill gaps.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Representational similarities in mouse auditory cortex remain stable during drift. When Taka Noda ablated neurons, these similarities destabilized but recovered within days - previously unresponsive neurons stepped up to fill gaps.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Homeostasis of a representational map in the neocortex - Nature Neuroscience
This study investigates how homeostatic mechanisms endow sensory representations in the auditory cortex with resilience against neuron loss. The map of sounds has the ability to recover after microabl...
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June 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
New paper (I played a minor role in)!
Representational similarities in mouse auditory cortex remain stable during drift. When Taka Noda ablated neurons, these similarities destabilized but recovered within days - previously unresponsive neurons stepped up to fill gaps.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧪🧠
Representational similarities in mouse auditory cortex remain stable during drift. When Taka Noda ablated neurons, these similarities destabilized but recovered within days - previously unresponsive neurons stepped up to fill gaps.
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
🧪🧠
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We want to hear from you! We’re conducting a survey on the state of neuroscience. This week’s question is: How will neuroscience training need to change in the future?
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How will neuroscience training need to change in the future?
We want to hear from you.
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June 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We want to hear from you! We’re conducting a survey on the state of neuroscience. This week’s question is: How will neuroscience training need to change in the future?
#neuroskyence
thetransmitter.typeform.com/neurotrainin...
#neuroskyence
thetransmitter.typeform.com/neurotrainin...
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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...
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Neuroscientists long ignored variability in animals’ behavior in favor of studying differences across groups. But now researchers are studying the brain differences that underlie that variability—and their efforts are beginning to pay off.
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Escaping groupthink: What animals’ behavioral quirks reveal about the brain
Neuroscientists have long ignored the variability in animals’ behavioral responses in favor of studying differences across groups. But work on the brain differences that underlie that variability is…
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May 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Neuroscientists long ignored variability in animals’ behavior in favor of studying differences across groups. But now researchers are studying the brain differences that underlie that variability—and their efforts are beginning to pay off.
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
www.thetransmitter.org/animal-behav...
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Excited to share my PhD paper! In it, we use targeted 2-photon optogenetic stimulation to determine how V1 activity is read-out in a detection task. We found that network influence, not visual coding properties, predicted the impact of ensembles on behavior - contradicting our expectations (1/5).
May 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Excited to share my PhD paper! In it, we use targeted 2-photon optogenetic stimulation to determine how V1 activity is read-out in a detection task. We found that network influence, not visual coding properties, predicted the impact of ensembles on behavior - contradicting our expectations (1/5).
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Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.25.650663v1
April 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Intrinsic rewards guide visual resource allocation via reinforcement learning https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.25.650663v1
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Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.
https://go.nature.com/437FWT6
https://go.nature.com/437FWT6
The do’s and don’ts of scientific image editing
Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.
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April 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Acceptable image-editing practices are partly a matter of common sense. But researchers say journals and funders could help scientists by standardizing policies.
https://go.nature.com/437FWT6
https://go.nature.com/437FWT6
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Oscillatory control over representational geometry of sequence working memory in macaque frontal cortex
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Oscillatory control over representational geometry of sequence working memory in macaque frontal cortex
Fang et al. found that frontal cortical theta-range spike-field coherence is rank-selectively
associated with unit spiking-based memory subspaces, supporting the binding of incoming
sequential working...
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April 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Oscillatory control over representational geometry of sequence working memory in macaque frontal cortex
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Very humbled to have been selected for the 2025 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows Program! Excited to continue working at @beckmanillinois.bsky.social under the guidance of Dr. Sepideh Sadaghiani and Dr. Howard Gritton.
April 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Very humbled to have been selected for the 2025 Beckman Institute Graduate Fellows Program! Excited to continue working at @beckmanillinois.bsky.social under the guidance of Dr. Sepideh Sadaghiani and Dr. Howard Gritton.