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Thom Elston

@t-elston.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof. at U.T. Austin • NHP + Human ephys and cognition • #Humboldtian • elstonlab.org formerly UC Berkeley, Tübingen, and Otago

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Caitlin Mallory @caitlinmallory.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
1/19 I’m thrilled that my postdoctoral work, with John Widloski and David Foster is now out in @science.org, along with a wonderful preview by Daniel Bendor!
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The time course and organization of hippocampal replay
The mechanisms by which the brain replays neural activity sequences remain unknown. Recording from large ensembles of hippocampal place cells in freely behaving rats, we observed that replay content i...
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Thom Elston @t-elston.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Pleased to share the final version (out in @natureneuro.bsky.social ) of my recent project showing how the primate HPC and OFC interact during contextual reasoning! www.nature.com/articles/s41... A big thanks to the reviewers who made the paper better!
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Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal–prefrontal circuit - Nature Neuroscience
The brain uses different valuation schemes across contexts. Elston and Wallis show this is supported by hippocampal encoding of context that is broadcast to prefrontal value subcircuits via theta sync...
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Thom Elston @t-elston.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
A farewell dim sum dinner with my Berkeley crew. On the one hand, I am so excited to start my lab in Austin; on the other, I'm also so thankful for the friends and colleagues who truly helped me feel so at home these last few years 🥲
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Millie Johnston @milliejohnston.bsky.social · 17/09/2023
www.iflscience.com/for-first-ti...
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For First Time, Crows Have Been Found To Use Statistical Inference To Make Decisions
Not such a bird brain after all.
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PessoaBrain @pessoabrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Looks like a great paper on the 𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝗻-𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀. Goes to show that "conservation" is a very complex, subtle issue. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ben Hayden @benhayden.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
Now out in Cell Reports! @janzimmermann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Hierarchical action encoding in prefrontal cortex of freely moving macaques
Our natural behavioral repertoires include coordinated actions of characteristic types. To better understand how neural activity relates to the expres…
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Thom Elston @t-elston.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
Hey bluesky - I'm happy to share a new preprint! I found that hippocampal-prefrontal interactions enable contextual reasoning in primates! Here's to hoping this thread works 🤞 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Context-dependent decision-making in the primate hippocampal-prefrontal circuit
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