Sophia Becker
@sobeckerneuro
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PhD student in computational neuroscience at @compneuro_epfl and @epflSV
Joined February 2022
Thrilled to be part of this exciting review on surprise and novelty in the brain! 🥳 .Stay tuned for follow-ups 😊.
In our new review paper in Current Opinion in Neurobiology, we ask "What links self-reported 'surprise' in human experiments to the brain activity of monkeys seeing 'surprising' fractals?" 🤯😲.
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RT @MorenoBote: Do you "look at nothing" when making a decision? . Here we provide further evidence about the connection betwee gaze into n….
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How does confidence relate to oculomotor dynamics during decision-making? Do oculomotor dynamics reflect deliberation and the buildup of confidence in the absence of visual stimuli? Here we examine...
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RT @lonnqvistben: AI vision is insanely good nowadays—but is it really like human vision or something else entirely? In our new pre-print,….
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RT @lancelotdacosta: Happy to announce that my PhD thesis deriving the mathematical theory of the free-energy principle has been awarded th….
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This thesis focuses on three fundamental aspects of biological systems; namely, entropy production, Bayesian mechanics, and the free-energy principle. The contributions are threefold: 1) We...
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RT @LecoqJerome: How does our brain predict the future? Our review of predictive processing + research program is now on arXiv https://t.co….
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RT @NeuroNaud: What are serotonin neurons trying to tell the brain? Our work on the question has been so much fun (@JCBeique , @JermiahYCoh….
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Nature - Merging ideas from reinforcement learning theory with recent insights into the filtering properties of the dorsal raphe nucleus, a unifying perspective is found explaining why serotonin...
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RT @Sheffield_Lab: Our latest research, led by @AntoineMadar, on what #SynapticPlasticity rules shape CA1 and CA3 representations in the hi….
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Nature Neuroscience - Madar et al. report that behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), not spike-timing-dependent plasticity, explains heterogeneous place fields shifting in the...
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RT @ClopathLab: Want to hear more about hippocampus-to-cortex.feedback circuit? Our paper with the Basu lab is out in Nat Neuro! https://t.….
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RT @surabhisnath: 🚨 Inviting all Curious Agents 🔍👀 to attend our workshop @RLDMDublin2025!!.With amazing speakers from across disciplines,….
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PIMBAA 2025 was a frank success! If you missed it, check IMOL 2025 happening in the UK, September 8!
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RT @LorenzoPosani: Long-overdue thread on our latest work using the IBL data to reveal the shared organizational principles of the neural c….
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RT @MarioDipoppa: New results! Visual adaptation changes the geometry of V1 population activity: frequent stimuli elicit smaller responses….
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Sensory adaptation dynamically changes neural responses as a function of previous stimuli, profoundly impacting perception. The response changes induced by adaptation have been characterized in...
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RT @neuroprinciples: Happy to share my second paper with Peter Dayan on our decision-theoretic approach to perceptual multistability (see t….
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Perceptual multistability has been studied for centuries using a diverse collection of approaches. Insights derived from this phenomenon range from core principles of information processing, such as...
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Feel free to check our preprint as well: . Thanks so much to the organizers @MonosovLab and Emmanuel Procyk for the inspiring conference! 💫.
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If you're at #foragingconference2024 , come check out our poster (#60) with @modirshanechi and @compneuro_epfl today!.Using a unified computational framework and two open-access datasets, we show how novelty and novelty-guided behaviors are influenced by stimulus similarities😊🤩.
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RT @TomNotGeorge: What are the brain’s “real” tuning curves? . Our new preprint "SIMPL: Scalable and hassle-free optimisation of neural rep….
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RT @k47h4: I am excited to announce that I've been awarded an SNSF Starting Grant! 🥳 I will start a lab at the Institute of Neuroinformatic….
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RT @modirshanechi: 🚨Preprint alert🚨. In an amazing collaboration with @GruazL53069, @sobeckerneuro, & J Brea, we explored a major puzzle in….
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'Why are we curious?' has been among the central puzzles of neuroscience and psychology in the past decades. A popular hypothesis is that curiosity is driven by intrinsically generated reward...
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RT @TrackingActions: 🚨adversarial robustness is becoming even more critical as AI systems are deployed in the real-world, but how can we de….
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RT @_rdgao: Back in 2022, @roxana_zeraati & I organized a Cosyne workshop on neural timescales, and after working on it for the last 2 year….
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RT @pyoudeyer: 🚀The curious U: Integrating theories linking knowledge and information-seeking behavior. New preprint with Alexander Ten,@Mi….
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