Jieyu Zheng
@jieyusz
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@Caltech Phd candidate in Neurobiology @mameister4 Lab; 23-25 President of @NeuroTechers @CaltechN; Alumnae from @sjtu1896 @Cornell @Cambridge_Uni
Joined June 2022
Following the footsteps of my labmates and colleagues, I'll slowly migrate to the new blue space for birds of science. You can follow me there!
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I’m off to #SfN2025! Grateful for the TPDA sponsor from @SfNtweets and representing @CaltechN I will present in two sessions.👇 I’m seeking 2026 postdoc positions in animal cognition/naturalistic behaviors. If you’re looking for a neuroethologist/mouse whisperer, contact me!
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At 6:41: "A human bandwidth output is less than 1 bit/s over the course of the day." Not sure the team’s scientists fact-checked the latest literature… but it seems we'd settle the case by 2028. A rare pleasure to see a multi-million-$ experiment underway to test your theories!
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Heading to @HHMIJanelia this weekend for the MCN! 🧠✈️ I’ll be presenting a poster on Wednesday, repping @CaltechN (seems like I might be the only one!). Hit me up to chat about Manhattan Maze 🗺️, acortical mice 🐭, 10 bits/s 🔢, and all things cognition!
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My first outing of "The Unbearable Slowness of Being" at the @CaltechN Workshop today! What does living at 10 bits/s mean for humans, flies, mice, and crows? More here: https://t.co/4uUVuQ8m3E…Thanks to Profs.@CFCamerer and Carlos for the invite!
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The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link for Neuron: https://t.co/P4vZlpwZWG, ArXiv:
arxiv.org
This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at...
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"[It’s] the largest unexplained number in brain science. I feel like neuroscience should pay more attention to it ..." said Marcus Meister when @claulopezneuro sat down with him and @jieyusz for a Q&A about the brain's information-processing rate. https://t.co/l6l4slWP56
thetransmitter.org
The human brain takes in sensory information roughly 100 million times faster than it can respond. Neuroscientists need to explore this perceptual paradox to better understand the limits of the brain…
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This upcoming winter term @Caltech @CaltechBBE, I’ll lead an undergraduate tutorial on "The Ethology of Learning"👇! It’ll run 10 weeks (1-hour lectures + 2-hour reading per week). What are your suggestions for readings? I’ll review them over the holidays!
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Attaching a cute migrating bird (white-crowned sparrow) photo I took to attract your attention!
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Huge thanks to @johnjvastola for the kind invitation and intro! 🙏 And to the @harvardmed neuroscience audience for your questions. 🧠✨ Hope this talk sparked ideas on the role of the cortex! Slides now uploaded:
jieyusz.github.io
Talk abstract
Next meeting Thurs, Nov 14 at 12:15 PM in WAB 236! Speaker is Jieyu Zheng (@JieyuZheng3), a Caltech PhD student in the Meister Lab (@mameister4). Talk title: "Cognition and Cortex: Implications from Rapid learning, Long-term Memory, and Flexible Routing in Rodent Maze Navigation"
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Outside the lab, I’m all about birds 🦅and art 🎨. It’s like weekend research, but with more instinct than effort —watching animals in the wild is very inspiring. Check out this short piece from Victoria Thomas @LocalNewsDena on my birding adventures:
localnewspasadena.com
Migratory bird sightings signal Fall's arrival.
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"The Unbearable Slowness of Being" has been the No.1 actively discussed preprint on @askalphaxiv for 5 days! This academic "billboard" is a game-changer for discussions and can be a new "impact factor" metric -- like we love @taylorswift13 for her songs, not the record labels.
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Thank you @DiscoverMag for a nice summary of "The Unbearable Slowness of Being" by me and @mameister4! https://t.co/ZoPBANdR67 If you are new to neuroscience, give it a read! Small suggestion & a little plug: How about using my art instead of the stock photo? 🎨😊
discovermagazine.com
The speed of human perception is surprisingly slow, say neuroscientists. That has important implications for our understanding of cognition and for the limits of brain computer interfaces.
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What do neuroscientists do on weekends? Art is an option! 🎨 Here’s a piece I did in 2021 when writing “the Unbearable Slowness of Being” https://t.co/rUUyNaWoD1. This painting is on the wall of our lab. Check out more arts & science here: https://t.co/aoRBzfJsLR
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Fun fact: a good portion of the literature search was done during a remote rotation while COVID-quarantining in a hotel in Singapore. Three years later I’m still suffering from COVID…
Why is reality so slow? Why can we only have one thought at a time? Why do we need so many neurons? Will @elonmusk's @neuralink really speed up his cognition? For answers and more questions check out our new review: "The Unbearable Slowness of Being".
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@elonmusk @djseo_ @neuralink @mameister4 Many thanks to our first critics: Frederick Eberhardt, Michelle Effros, and @UeliRutishauser from @CaltechN; @EngertLab, @mjaz_jazlab, Christof Koch, and @TonyZador. And of course, to Milan Kundera.
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Nice Ambition from @elonmusk @djseo_ @neuralink 🚀, but we @mameister4 kindly invite you to read our words of caution first😉⚠️, now on arXIV: https://t.co/rUUyNaWoD1 Academics, please join the discussion on alphaxiv: https://t.co/IHaA4FhPvg. Just one thought at a time please!
arxiv.org
This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at...
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Few-shot learning observed: it took me 6 peanuts to befriend a local fox squirrel. Now he checks my window daily—no extinction yet. Sure, squirrels already have representations of humans as food sources, but doesn't this hint at meta-learning too? (Photo today at @Caltech)
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COVID got me good😷, probably from the epic party at @MITMuseum... No regrets for me though—Seeing Shannon's Theseus is a Maze researcher's dream come true! Wishing everyone at #CCN2024 @CogCompNeuro good health! Stay safe, folks!
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