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Licheng Zou

@lichengzou.bsky.social
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Theoretical neuroscience doctoral researcher from Fred Wolf's group at MPI-DS/ MSc from U. Amsterdam/ BSc from SJTU Web: lichengzou0509.github.io/Academic-CV

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Matthias Häring @mathherring.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
New paper out! Ever aligned biological trajectories at the “moment it’s done”? Turns out that trick secretly adds a fictitious force. We show when you can (and can’t) identify the real mechanism. Coolest bit: to reveal it, you have to travel against the arrow of time. link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...
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Landscape of Target State Directed Processes in Living Systems
Reverse-time stochastic dynamics, distinct from the forward-time dynamics widely used in stochastic thermodynamics, is fundamental for understanding the directed, goal-reaching dynamics that are a com...
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I'm more and more convinced that low-dimensional manifolds in the brain are just an artifact of the experimental designs and analyses we use... 🧠📈 🧪
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Jens-Bastian Eppler @j-b-eppler.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Great new paper by my colleagues Gloria & Alex, and @lichengzou.bsky.social. Hebbian plasticity accounts for much of representational drift: Drift is ongoing memory storage, not noise. Also reconciles contradictory findings on stability after repeated exposure. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠🧪
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Representational drift as the consequence of ongoing memory storage - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Representational drift as the consequence of ongoing memory storage
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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
BTSP, but not STDP, can account for place field changes in hippocampus, out in Nature Neuroscience today: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧠📈 🧪
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Synaptic plasticity rules driving representational shifting in the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience
Madar et al. report that behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP), not spike-timing-dependent plasticity, explains heterogeneous place fields shifting in the hippocampus. The probability of BTS...
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Jorge Mejias @jorgefmejias.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Please spread the word!! We are accepting applications for the Cold Spring Harbor Asia Computational and Cognitive Summer School in Suzhou, China. Dates: June 29 to July 20 of 2025. Application deadline: March 31. #computationalneuroscience. For the top three reasons to attend, see thread below:
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Joao Barbosa @jbarbosa.org · 13/03/2025
Most neuroscience research is exploratory: they search for *something* rather than testing a hypothesis. It's harking. I used to see that as a problem, but not anymore. The 1st papers generate hypotheses; the real testing comes later. Science only make sense collectively, not individually.
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Neuron @cp-neuron.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Universal statistics of hippocampal place fields across species and dimensionalities
Mainali et al. show that a simple mathematical model explains recent observations of heterogeneous and irregular spatial responses in the hippocampus in large environments. The model unifies observations from environments of varying sizes and dimensions…
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Jens-Bastian Eppler @j-b-eppler.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Our new preprint: We found that during representational drift co-activation of neuron pairs is predictive of future effective connectivity. Drift is - in parts - just Hebbian plasticity. But we also need a stochastic process to account for our observations. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Representational drift reflects ongoing balancing of stochastic changes by Hebbian learning
Recent evidence indicates that even under stable environmental and behavioural conditions responses to sensory stimuli undergo continuous reformatting over the course of days, a condition described as...
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Sometimes I think the most important thing a computational neuroscientist can do to encourage acceptance of their work in the broader experimental community is just to plot their model data in the exact same way the relevant experimental data was plotted. It's very affecting!
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗠𝗥𝗜 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀. Please, absolutely no equations, think of someone math phobic. Much better if a paper. thanks #neuroscience
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