Tamal_Batabyal
@BatabyalTamal
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Postdoc @MillerLabMIT, PILM | Interested in Neuroscience and CS.
MIT, Cambridge
Joined May 2019
“Oscillatory brain waves are creating fluctuating electric fields — that’s how the brain organizes itself.” “Oscillations are organization. Evolution can push these waves around to create self-organization, self-control, volition.” “Dynamic oscillatory brain firing may be the
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Today, Nov 20 at noon ET. The MIT Consciousness Club seminar Consciousness Emerges From Neural Dynamics Earl K. Miller Zoom link here: https://t.co/3ojs79ixDt
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The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness...
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We're hiring! MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor. Application deadline is Dec. 1. Full posting:
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Rotating Brain Waves Help the Mind Refocus After Distraction New research reveals that the brain regains focus after distraction through rotating waves of neural activity. These circular waves sweep across the prefrontal cortex, realigning neurons and restoring attention.
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New from @MillerLabMIT: To get back on track after a distraction, the brain appears to employ a rotating traveling wave, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds. https://t.co/dwNPhEiwpn
@ScienceMIT @mitbrainandcog #neuroscience #cognition
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To get back on track after a distraction, the cortex appears to employ a rotating traveling wave, a new study by MIT neuroscientists finds.
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Appearing soon: State-space trajectories and traveling waves following distraction, J of Cog. Neuro., in press. A direct link between spiking patterns moving through subspace and traveling waves propagating across the cortex. Preprint: https://t.co/8bbQTaE8Ko
#neuroscience
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Cortical activity shows the ability to recover from distractions. We analyzed neural activity from the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of monkeys performing working memory tasks with mid-memory-delay...
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For all the knucklehead reviewers out there. Principles for proper peer review - Earl K. Miller https://t.co/godgWGWFmG
#neuroscience
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Just attended a talk by MIT’s @MillerLabMIT , organized by @PessoaBrain for SPN: “Cognition Emerges from Neural Dynamics.” Highlight: “Brain, as an analog computer, where the brainwaves do the computations.” Sharing a few key slides. #neuroscience #brain #brainwaves
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We’re hiring! @uvabio @UVA_PFN @UVA UVA Biology is recruiting multiple tenure-track Assistant Professors in neuroscience as part of a $75M Brain & Neuroscience Initiative. Apply by Oct 15, 2025. Start Aug 2026. https://t.co/NnB4ZP1zcx
#Neuroscience #FacultyJobs
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Come work with us! The Neuroscience Institute and the Department of Psychology at Princeton University are searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the area of human cognitive neuroscience, to be hired jointly in Psychology and Neuroscience:
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Interview with Terry Sejnowski are always worth reading. Rippling Signals May Provide Working Memory in the Brain https://t.co/LhrWZjvijC
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Explore Dr. Terry Sejnowski's discussion on brain modeling and its impact on AI with experts from UCL and Johns Hopkins.
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New paper in @CellCellPress w/ @cjahn_neuro on how the brain learns to control attention in a changing environment! Attention is learned incrementally from reward, and it maps stimuli into a generalized value space to guide decisions in many settings. 🧵 https://t.co/EneXRvzVhy
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New results! Stability from subspace rotations and traveling waves https://t.co/8bbQTaDAUQ
#neuroscience Cortical activity spirals like eddies. This may stabilize the brain and keep neural computation on track. Work by @BatabyalTamal @ScottBrincat
@MIT_Picower @mitbrainandcog
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Cortical activity shows the ability to recover from distractions. We analyzed neural activity from the prefrontal cortex (PFC) of monkeys performing working memory tasks with mid-memory-delay...
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Have you ever done a dense grid search over neural network hyperparameters? Like a *really dense* grid search? It looks like this (!!). Blueish colors correspond to hyperparameters for which training converges, redish colors to hyperparameters for which training diverges.
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The Number Five Is Nothing Like the Number Four Our brains process them in completely different ways. https://t.co/Ca4tSvPNLM
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Our brains process them in completely different ways.
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What happens to your brain during anesthetic-induced unconsciousness? @Leokoz8, @FieteGroup, @MillerLabMIT and I approached this question from the lens of dynamic stability and found that propofol profoundly destabilizes neural dynamics. 1/ [ https://t.co/imL1hFcPuy]
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Every day, hundreds of thousands of people undergo general anesthesia. One hypothesis is that anesthesia disrupts dynamic stability, the ability of the brain to balance excitability with the need to...
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Greetings #SFN23 attendees.!! If interested in the mechanism of how our brain restores itself after a disruption to an ongoing WM task, check out our poster (Board : TT10, Number: 433.15) on Tuesday (14th Nov, 1:00 pm-5:00 pm). #travelingwave #rotations @MillerLabMIT
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