How widespread are our memories stored in the brain? Our new study, open access in @NatureNeuro, investigates how category learning changes neuronal representations in mouse visual cortical areas. (1/8) @mpi_neuro @sandra_tanja @t_bonhoeffer @MHuebener https://t.co/6IVQBmwWOD

Starting in a couple of minutes, don’t miss it 😊 @sandra_tanja @MPIforBI

In case you haven't seen it yet, the poster session still lasts another 45 minutes! Great work from @daniellepaynter @MPIforBI

Thread on the beauty of wildlife 🧵 1. When it’s cold enough to see the melody

It’s spring in the Murnauer Moos, flowers everywhere!

Training doesn’t have to be slow. 303km/h, ok @DB_Bahn, you’ve definitely made your point 😊

Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold. Read the results of Nature’s second global survey of postdoctoral researchers

We are thrilled to have finally released our preprint “Sensory experience steers representational drift in mouse visual cortex” https://t.co/mmdSmpptwq. Team: @Neuro_Joel @LewinUwe @_eherbert @GjorJulijana Carl Schoonover, Andrew Fink @trose_neuro @t_bonhoeffer Mark Hübener. 1/5

Scientists of Twitter! The world needs more reminders that we're living, breathing human beings. I was tempted to post a picture of me doing not-science, but my spouse confirmed that no one wants to see a picture of me napping on a weekend afternoon.

Curious about how maps form in the visual system? Check out our new preprint “Retinal origin of orientation but not direction selective maps in the superior colliculus” https://t.co/4Z0p3YHbTi, led by @DMalmazet and me, with @Chen___Li. @FarrowLab @__NERF @BiologyKULeuven 1/5

Ocular dominance columns in mouse visual cortex https://t.co/d2oJm5S7YX #biorxiv_neursci

Check out our latest preprint on ocular dominance columns, which we have found in mouse visual cortex! https://t.co/r81pmw02J5 @DavidLaubender @t_bonhoeffer Mark Hübener @MPIforBI #bioRxiv

Imagine dinosaurs posing with an asteroid

Thanks to @T_Guillamon (@NeuroAlc / @GLB_Lab), Andrew King (@UniofOxford), @IOB_Roska (@IOB_ch), @VendrellLlopis (@UCBerkeley), @aa_fenton (@nyuniversity), @dileeplearning (@DeepMind @vicariousai),

Excellent tip, can recommend from experience to do this also as a team exercise 😀

How do the mouse prefrontal cortex and higher visual areas represent a learned category over time? Check out the Q&A with SWC Seminar speaker Dr Pieter Goltstein (@xpieter @MPIforBI): https://t.co/n38oJpwOSE

Come and see our poster on ocular dominance columns in mouse visual cortex! This afternoon (Tue) at #SfN22, board R14. @DavidLaubender @t_bonhoeffer @MHuebener @MPIforBI

Join us tomorrow for two SWC Seminars! At 10am in-person and online, Dr Pieter Goltstein (@xpieter, @MPIforBI) will speak about how category-defining associations are represented in the brain: https://t.co/faC83y8pnt 1/2

In summary, category learning changed many aspects of neuronal coding in visual areas, with area POR most prominently shifting from visual feature to category tuning. Thus, semantic aspects of learned categories can already be identified in visual areas of the mouse brain. (8/8)

Of course, many neurons responded already selectively to stimulus properties before learning. Using the GLM kernels, we disentangled tuning for visual features (orientation/spatial freq) from tuning for categories. Area POR showed the strongest increase in category tuning. (7/8)

Using an encoding model (GLM), we found that, across areas, the newly responsive neurons encoded choice behavior and reward. (6/8)