
Michael Shadlen
@shadlen
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interested in ideas and the neuroscience of ideation. . . and jazz (he/him)
New York
Joined December 2011
This will be my last post on Twitter. I will miss Twitter, but I have to find space orthogonal (or antithetical) to Elon Musk. See this Instagram post by @drdanacrawford
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Thank you, Chandra Talluri and @Nienborg for your insightful Insight Essay!.Decisions: Tracking the evolution of a single choice
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Measuring the activity of hundreds of neurons in macaque brains simultaneously provides further evidence that drift-diffusion dynamics underlie how decisions are made in the brain.
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Finally! This is the version of record; it's also the version to read, thanks to the review process at eLife. The finding was out of reach before macaque Neuropixels. @eLife: Direct observation of the neural computations underlying a single decision
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Simultaneous recording from many neurons in macaque lateral intraparietal area reveals the elusive drift-diffusion signal, long suspected to underlie individual perceptual decisions and response...
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This photo on the National Mall captivated the country decades ago. The real story behind it remained a mystery — until now.
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In 1974, a group of friends met the unthinkable with a lavish celebration. The real story behind a photo that captured the moment remained a mystery until now.
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This article made me so sad and furious. The graphics, the writing, the family tensions, magic (moth), and Sisyphean struggle made me feel this family's grief as my own. A Grieving Mother. A Famous Uncle. An Unlikely Crusade.
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Tragedy turned Nadia Milleron, Ralph Nader’s niece, into an activist. Now she’s on a long-shot campaign for Congress.
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One of the great things about the WNYC centennial is the reëmergence of Sara Fishko. I miss her intelligent, funny, @FishkoFiles. They are pieces of art. Silence is my favorite, but I would binge every one of them.
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I was hoping Trung Phan would have mentioned Kerry James Marshall's MET retrospective, which he titled "Mastry," KJM drops the 't' to sever the connection to slavery. He shared many relevant insights. The life secret Jerry Seinfeld learned from Esquire
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The only thing worth having is a skill to master.
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Spot on! (…ignoring the offensive false equivalency in ¶3 parenthetical). The only question is when. The Kamala Harris calculus: What do Democrats gain or lose?
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A lot of commentators might have to eat crow.
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David Remnick puts it well and respectfully—to Biden and to the rest of us.
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For the President to insist on remaining the Democratic candidate would be an act not only of self-delusion but of national endangerment.
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RT @TheAtlantic: Last night’s debate was a travesty, @davidfrum writes—because its whole premise was to treat a failed coup leader as a leg….
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This is a substantially revised and improved preprint, thanks to quality peer review at eLIfe. The new eLife model is beginning to grow on me. @eLife.
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The subjective value of choice options changes during deliberation, and accounting for these changes improves predictions of choices, response times, and BOLD fMRI activity.
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