Although movement and imagery share population-wide brain responses in motor cortex, a subset of those exists in orthogonal and unique subspaces. RNEL Brian Dekleva Jen Collinger Raeed Chowdhury Byron Yu PittResearch nature.com/articles/s4156…

"Learning leaves a memory trace in motor cortex" Out today in Current Biology! Led by Darby Losey, with myself, Emily Oby, Matt Golub, Aaron Batista, Byron Yu, Steve Chase, and team. 📎: authors.elsevier.com/c/1ipdB3QW8S6D… 🧵: x.com/jehosafet/stat…

"Learning leaves a memory trace in motor cortex" Now out in Current Biology! Led by Darby Losey, with Jay Hennig , Emily Oby, myself, Aaron Batista, Byron Yu, Steve Chase, and team. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… x.com/jehosafet/stat…

Big news, I just accepted an offer to join Baylor College of Medicine's Dept of Neuroscience as an asst professor! I start Fall 2024, and I'm looking for phd students, postdocs, and research scientists to join me studying learning in neural populations. henniglab.org

Animals can learn to use all kinds of brain-computer interfaces, from controlling single neurons to large populations of neurons in motor ctx. How do they do this? Thrilled to be finally sharing our research on this question, now up on biorxiv! 🧵

Since the lead author (Patrick Marino) is too cool for social media, it falls on me to tweeprint about our new article “A posture subspace in primary motor cortex”, which just dropped on biorxiv yesterday! (1/9) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

After some lovely updates thanks to reviewer/editor feedback, this work is now published in Neuron! cell.com/article/S08966… We find monotonic reward signals in M1/PMd, and interactions of reward value with neural reach signals that correlate with an inverted-U in performance

Out now! Byron Yu, Shenghao, Matt Smith, Brent Doiron, Chengcheng Huang et al. present a procedure to customize spiking network models that reproduce the population-wide covariability of large-scale neuronal recordings. nature.com/articles/s4358… ➡️rdcu.be/dT5i9

An interdisciplinary group from CMU_BME and Swanson School of Engineering have developed a novel framework that can quickly and accurately customize models that reproduce activity to mimic what’s observed in the brain. Byron Yu Matt Smith engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/ne…