Yesterday a letter from 100 scientists declared the popular theory of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory - is "pseudoscience." And that media about it is "scientific misinformation." The letter is bad. Here's my reply why: theintrinsicperspective.com/p/ambitious-th…

Attractor dynamics reflect decision confidence in macaque prefrontal cortex biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

this sounds amazing!

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. doi.org/10.1177/174569…

1/6 We are thrilled to share our latest paper published on Current Biology today! Yu-Nan Chen with the support of Johanna Kostka and Sebastian Bitzenhofer revealed that olfaction early in life is necessary for cognitive development. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Mice reaching up for rewards! 🐭💪🏻 Current tasks for assessing motivation may have some extra cognitive demands not purely related to physical effort which may confound result interpretation and outcomes. We´ve developed a task to minimise these confounds: the RED task! 🧵👇

Excited to share this paper using new neurotech and explainable AI to advance DBS for treatment resistant #depression (TRD). Team effort including Helen Mayberg, MD, Sankar Alagapan and Patricio Riva-Posse. Summary thread! go.nature.com/48lmlzC @nature PC: Mike Halerz

Finally read this in our jclub-water ingestion leads to long (30+min) activity increase in a subset of dopamine neurons, depending on projection (and in NAc dopamine might even decrease?!)-we should know how repeated, small water ingestion in our behavioral tasks affects dopamine

What do you get when you combine RL and predictive coding? The in vivo activity patterns of serotonin neurons. Excited to share a new theory and analysis to back it up! doi.org/10.1101/2023.0… With Richard Naud and Jean-Claude Beique in collab with cooper grossman & Jeremiah Cohen. 🧵

Dabei in Folge 3 der Tagesspiegel-Reihe zu den 100 wichtigsten Köpfen der Berliner Wissenschaft: Torben Ott Torben Ott, Neurowissenschaftler am Institut für Biologie der HU & am BCCN Berlin, der zur Bewertung von Zeit aus neuronaler Perspektive forscht! tagesspiegel.de/wissen/sie-erf…

🚨 COOL COSYNE WORKSHOP 🚨 yourbrainondrugswork.shop Amy Christensen, Torben Ott, and I have organised a CoSyNe workshop about how psychoactive drugs modify neural and behavioural dynamics. Our superstar line-up includes Katharina Schmack, Kay M Tye PhD, Jonah Padawer-Curry Sam Vesuna...

Nature research paper: Synaptic wiring motifs in posterior parietal cortex support decision-making go.nature.com/42UCYj9

Attentional mechanisms enable selective processing of information. With Ruobing Xia, Xiaomo Chen, and Tirin Moore, we review work across species, forms of attention, and analysis levels, revealing convergence and differences. Out today in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our team is looking for a postdoc researcher to work on temporal cognition, serotonin, and decision-making. ERC-funded position at BCCN Berlin. See torbenottlab.org for details. Find me at our Cosyne workshop ⬇️

Come for the cool-amazing-unique brains and behaviors, stay for the general mechanisms and inspiration for artificial agents. Feat. Cris Niell Vallentin Lab Kelsey Tyssowski Philipp Brand Emily Mackevicius Jacob Zavatone-Veth Torben Ott Lorenz Fenk and Barbara Webb

Thanks to all the speakers and co-organizers, this was such a wonderful day! #cosyne2024

Thanks to the organizers and let's make labs more SAFE!

Thrilled that our proposal (Torben Ott, Dietmar Schmitz Lab) to investigate the effect of #Psilocybin 🍄 on cortical networks 🧠 was selected by the Openscope platform Allen Institute Jérôme Lecoq. Read more about it here: alleninstitute.org/news/mapping-t… #psychedelics

As people fill out our survey, we’ve been asked “What is the goal of the SAFE Labs Handbook?” Here’s some more info. TLDR: Help build a practical, evolving tool to improve lab culture. Fill out the survey! forms.office.com/e/XYxs1anhdg

Group leaders, postdocs, PhDs, undergrads: We need your feedback on our draft handbook in establishing and running SAFE labs (a practical, evolving tool to improve lab culture)! forms.office.com/e/XYxs1anhdg