Sara Matias @saramatias.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Grateful for the opportunity to share our work at the Frontiers in NeuroAI Symposium @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social ! 071
Reposted by Sara MatiasKempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Sara Matias from Harvard's Depertment of Molecular & Cellular Biology shows evidence that the striatal dopamine circuit can mediate distributional reinforcement learning. @saramatias.bsky.social #NeuroAI2025 #ML #neuroscience 041
Reposted by Sara MatiasKempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 15/04/2025And for a broad perspective on how this framework helps untangle multiplexed information in neural recordings, check out our piece by @dryohanjohn.bsky.social. bit.ly/KempnerDUNL2bit.lyStudy Introduces Innovative Method to Decode Complex Neural Data - Kempner InstituteArtificial intelligence, and specifically machine learning techniques, are allowing scientists to better analyze recordings of brain activity and disentangle neural patterns. 031
Reposted by Sara MatiasKempner Institute at Harvard University @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social · 14/04/2025New in the Deeper Learning blog: The Kempner’s Demba Ba explains his team’s recent Neuron paper on DUNL, a deep learning framework that tames the complexity of brain data. bit.ly/KempnerDUNL #AI #neuroscience #neuroskyence #MLbit.lyMechanistic Interpretability: A Challenge Common to Both Artificial and Biological Intelligence - Kempner InstituteIn neuroscience, the past decade has witnessed major advances in our ability to record activity from the brain at both larger and finer scales. And yet, a mechanistic theory linking […] 13410
Reposted by Sara MatiasMark Burrell @mhburrell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I’m happy to share our latest work (co-lead by Selina Qian) has today been published in its final form in @:natureneuro.bsky.social: Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-… (1/12) 23214
Reposted by Sara MatiasMark Burrell @mhburrell.bsky.social · 18/03/2025This work is a product of a tremendous team: Lechen (Selina) Qian, Jay A Hennig (@jhennig.bsky.social), Sara Matias (@saramatias.bsky.social), Venki Murthy (@neurovenki.bsky.social), Sam Gershman (@gershbrain.bsky.social) and Naoshige Uchida (@naoshigeuchida.bsky.social) (11/12) 141
Reposted by Sara MatiasBahareh Tolooshams @btolooshams.bsky.social · 13/03/2025How can we design human-interpretable AI models to explain why neurons behave as they do? Excited to share our work in collaboration with @saramatias.bsky.social, Hao Wu, Simona Temereanca, @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social, @neurovenki.bsky.social, @paulmasset.bsky.social, and Demba Ba @harvard.edu 1/21 1146
Reposted by Sara MatiasJan Drugowitsch @jdrugowitsch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Excited that Adam Lowet's PhD work has been just been published in @nature.com at doi.org/10.1038/s415.... He has already posted about it on Twitter/X (see twitter.com/Adam_Lowet/s...), but let me re-post his thread here. 1/9 26418
Reposted by Sara MatiasHarvard_MCB @harvardmcb.bsky.social · 12/03/2025New Deep Learning Framework Reveals Hidden Structure in Neural Activity 🧠 #neuro #science www.mcb.harvard.edu/department/n... @naoshigeuchida.bsky.social @saramatias.bsky.social @neurovenki.bsky.social @btolooshams.bsky.social @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social @harvardbrainsci.bsky.socialmcb.harvard.eduNew Deep Learning Framework Reveals Hidden Structure in Neural Activity - Harvard University - Department of Molecular & Cellular BiologyUnderstanding how neurons encode information is one of the most pressing challenges in neuroscience. A new study from a multidisciplinary team including MCB researchers and those from the […] 0248