Alon Baram
@BaramAlon
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Post-doc with Tim Behrens at Oxford
Joined February 2018
Very happy to see our paper out in @NeuroCellPress! We show that the brain abstracts and generalises the structure of reinforcement learning tasks. Link to the paper: https://t.co/Mpu4jJVtdr
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Want the freedom of a fancy fellowship, but not the year-long wait or arduous application? Come join my lab! Work on neuroscience and AI, explore your creativity, be independent or work closely with me, collaborate widely, and have a lot of fun! https://t.co/zmROCA5Ib6
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If you’re at SfN and interested in cognitive maps/PFC then this is the symposium for you! https://t.co/4PMrkwZc4X Saturday 2-4:30 Room SDCC 6CF Also check out our brand new review: https://t.co/EdvpYk79B9 With Sebastijan Veselic, Elena Gutierrez, @sandra_tanja & @MSableMeyer
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הוא היה הראשון שמדד את גיל כדוה"א - 4.55 מיליארד שנה - בדיוק מדהים שנותר עד היום. אבל תוך כדי, הוא גילה משהו לא צפוי לחלוטין ומדאיג. תוך עשורים בודדים, הרף עין ביחס לגיל כדוה"א, משהו השתנה לרעה. מאוד לרעה. בגלל בני האדם. אז הוא יצא למשימת חייו. שרשור על כל מה שטוב (ורע) במדע 🧵⬇️
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Excited to share my PhD results showing a hierarchical coordinate system for sequence memory in human EC. https://t.co/8KicCW0j73 Below is a thread explaining this nonsense. 1/9
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Grid cells in rodent entorhinal cortex (EC) support a coordinate system for space, enabling robust memory and powerful flexibility in spatial behaviour. This coordinate system is abstract - with the...
What’s this nonsense?
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The leadership of the Hebrew University in a strongly-worded, unequivocal response letter to the presidents of Harvard and Stanford universities, following their weak condemnation of Hamas: "You have failed us, not only as Israelis, who are subject to the imminent threat of being
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Michael wrote it better than I could.
I usually don’t write political posts on Twitter, but I wanted to clarify a few things about the situation in Israel.
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I am hiring a PhD student in cognitive computational #neuroscience! 👩🏻🎓👨🏻🎓Come and help us discover how the human brain learns, decides and guides flexible behaviour in beautiful Würzburg 🧠🙌 Find out more & apply here: https://t.co/peB7eeShaQ
@bioDGPs_DGPA @FENSorg @SfNtweets
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Study uncovers how our brains connect the past and present | Brain Sciences - UCL – University College London
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A study led by Dr Avital Hahamy and Professor Tim Behrens (UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology) has uncovered a brain mechanism that supports our understanding of ongoing experiences.
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Ever wondered how your brain makes sense of threads like this? So did we! @behrenstimb @haim_dub and I tried to answer this question in our new paper, now available in @NatureNeuro. https://t.co/nmUPoooFur 1/13
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Excited to share our preprint, with Jo Warren, @jcrwhittington, and @behrenstimb! Hippocampus famously supports memory and scene construction, but recent state-space models have also explained a wealth of hippocampal results. Maybe it does both? https://t.co/ddoKgll7gB 1/10
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Hippocampus is critical for memory, imagination, and constructive reasoning. However, recent models have suggested that its neuronal responses can be well explained by state-spaces that model the...
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This suggests that participants formed and used a map for generalization! And indeed, using fMRI adaptation we found a representation of the spatial map in the hippocampus. However, not only spatial relationships between monsters were represented in the hippocampus!
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Roses are red, violets are blue, and today I am again on strike with the #UCU. Show some V-day love and support your striking colleagues in HE. #ucuRISING
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Dogs on Pickets!🐶 #ucuRISING
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If everything's a big manifold, why do neurons often code for human-interpretable factors? In https://t.co/xCaJbmtwwi we show the most efficient biological representation puts different factors in different neurons. This lets us build machines that disentangle too! 1/9
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Neurons in the brain are often finely tuned for specific task variables. Moreover, such disentangled representations are highly sought after in machine learning. Here we mathematically prove that...
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Congratulations to Gily Ginosar in the group of Prof. Nachum Ulanovsky of the Brain Sciences Department, who has been awarded the Capranica Prize for the 2021 Best Paper in Neuroethology
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Join this week’s WorldWideNeuRise seminar @worldwideneuro to hear more about the functional architecture of the human entorhinal-hippocampal circuitry and discuss our preprint with me!
Fascinated by entorhinal and hippocampus? Our new preprint might be of interest to you! Excited to share: Functional connectivity and information pathways in the entorhinal-hippocampal circuitry w @david_berron, @DuzelLab,Magdalena Sauvage,Andreas Becke
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New paper with the awesome @AvitalHahamy showing reactivations of past events whilst understanding a movie/audio-book. The brain reactivates past events at event boundaries, linking relevant events across time.
The human brain reactivates context-specific past information at event boundaries of naturalistic experiences https://t.co/j4Qoz5gFMg
#biorxiv_neursci
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I never wrote Twitter threads before but I want to tell you about a volunteer organisation I am a part of. We are assisting people who are trying to escape from the war in Ukraine. This is a photo from Kharkov a couple of days ago. 1/N
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When will UK universities follow? Can academic visas bypass the insane Home Office bureaucracy that Ukrainians are facing in the UK? @UniofOxford @ucl
In a show of #solidarity, @HebrewU is offering Ukrainian students and researchers #academichosting, #scholarships and free #accommodation on campus. Ukrainian #undergraduates are also invited to attend our @RISatHUJI for free. More into at: https://t.co/kQKBficU2L
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A good friend who's town is under siege in Ukraine is raising money to help keep food and medicine supply going. Please consider donating. Link below חברה טובה מאוקראינה מגייסת תרומות לטובת מזון ותרופות בעיירה שלה - לינק: https://t.co/GaKHlkrWay
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