Ricardo J. Alejandro
ricalbena.bsky.social
Ricardo J. Alejandro
@ricalbena.bsky.social
PhD researcher, LCC-Lab at Ghent University. Cognitive control, learning, memory, classic Tetris.
Awesome tip!
August 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Reposted by Ricardo J. Alejandro
Just to give a hint on the potential for think aloud to answer these questions - this is my favorite chess streamer video - pretty nice evidence for model-based planning and model-free decision making from just one trial of data! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zys...
"I don't wanna think too much" - Hikaru Nakamura
YouTube video by RANJIT
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December 5, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Reposted by Ricardo J. Alejandro
This is intuition (inspired, e.g., by @suryaganguli.bsky.social on random projection theory) allowed us to show that if an animal performs the same task on different days, you can recover the same population dynamics even if you record from completely different neurons

tinyurl.com/5n7c6wvw
https://comsync.lijit.com/1/d/r?aqet=clk&v0=0768d8a711262f5e4ce0e4cfc5151b3b&ru=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticles%2Fs41593-019-0555-4
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November 23, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Ricardo J. Alejandro
We have an updated opinionated review coming out relatively soon on this, but perhaps this perspective we wrote a long ago will help?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Neural Manifolds for the Control of Movement
The analysis of neural dynamics in several brain cortices has consistently uncovered low-dimensional manifolds that capture a significant fraction of …
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November 23, 2024 at 4:22 PM