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The Sainsbury Wellcome Centre aims to discover the fundamental principles of how the brain drives behaviour. Based at @ucl, funded by Gatsby and @wellcometrust.

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Listen to Professor @SonjaBHofer discussing the new mouse brain activity map from the International Brain Laboratory, on BBC Newshour (18m30s) ⤵️.
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RT @newscientist: The first complete activity map of a mammalian brain has revealed unprecedented insights into how decisions are made – an….
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Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and the results could explain the origin of our gut feelings
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Dr. Francesca Greenstreet @cesca_gst discusses her SWC PhD work on how habits are formed and her latest research on how the brain implements reinforcement learning when there is a large action space — all on the latest @Neuroverse_Pod . Listen now:
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In today’s episode we are joined by Dr Francesca Greenstreet to discuss how habits are made, how habits may not require reward-based learning, converting from being an experimentalist to a computat...
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@Nature This work was conducted by the @IntlBrainLab, a collaboration of researchers from leading institutes across Europe and the US. With support from: @SimonsFdn, @wellcometrust . Congratulations to everyone involved who made this work possible.
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Published in two @Nature papers today, highlights include:. 🧠Decision-making is extremely distributed across the brain.🎯Prior expectations are encoded across the brain, even in early sensory areas.🌍Open data and protocols.
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Nature - Brain-wide recordings in mice reveal that prior expectations are distributed through recurrent loops across all levels of cortical and subcortical processing.
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A complete brain-wide activity map at single-cell resolution has been revealed for the first time. Researchers recorded from 650,000+ neurons across 279 brain areas to track decision-making in mice. Read the story:.🔗
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RT @unireps: 🚨 Registration for the @unireps x UCL NeuroAI meetup (Sept 8) is now closed & sold out for in-person attendance!. But good ne….
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Congratulations to Professor @behrenstimb on receiving a @royalsociety Faraday Discovery Fellowship 🎉. The 10-year core funding will allow his lab at @SWC_Neuro and @NDCNOxford to investigate the mechanistic basis of intelligence.
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Keep up to date with all the latest news and events from the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre by signing up to our mailing list ⬇️.
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@kishoreneuro, Florian Mormann, @lauren_orefice, @JAlGallego . Illustration by @GilCostaDesign and Joana Carvalho.
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With insights from past SWC seminar speakers: @TessaMontague, @Luthi_FMI, @blaiseaguera, Jianhua ‘JC’ Cang, @HannahPaynePhD, William Wisden, @sohallab, @dominic_evans_, @stevewcchang, @dav_robbe, @marinopagan, @elboustanilab, Linda Wilbrecht, Jan Gründemann, Alice Mosberger.
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Leading neuroscientists share their top tips to optimise learning: teach, sleep, repeat!.
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Developed by @SWC_Neuro, @GatsbyUCL, @neurogears & @datajoint, Aeon enables:. -24/7 animal welfare monitoring.-Long-term, high-density neural recordings .-Behaviour tracking. All tools are open-source and designed to scale. Find out more ->
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Aeon is a new platform for continuous brain and behaviour research in naturalistic environments — already used in 15+ projects, including long-term social learning studies. 🔗 .📄 Preprint:
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Congratulations to Professor Tiago Branco (@trabranco) on receiving a @wellcometrust Discovery Award. His lab will investigate how the brain sets sensitivity to threat, and how both genetics and experience shape this threshold.
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RT @unireps: 🚀 Exciting Update! 🧠🎙️.The very first UniReps x @UCL_Neuro_AI Meetup will also be livestreamed!. 📍 Join us in person at @UCL @….
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BrainCamp Kosovo was founded by @EgzonaMorina1, a former PhD Student at SWC. The programme is run in partnership with the @XhMFoundation, @ickosovo and the ATOMI Institute.
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“It is a responsibility to study neuroscience, and it is important to share our work with other people.”. @AApostolelli and @ShoheiFurutachi reflect on the joy of teaching at Brain Camp Kosovo, a programme expanding access to neuroscience education.
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RT @jkbhagatio: This has been a long time coming! Really happy to announce Aeon, the culmination of my main Ph. D. work! A true everything….
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