Also let us introduce our new PhD student, Claire @clairesturgill.bsky.social, who joined us just 2 months ago, and excited to understand neural and computational mechanisms of internal decision proceess! Let's welcome her to Cosyne community 😍
3-008 poster session 3 (Sat, Mar. 14, 13:15) [in collaboration w/ Zahra Monfared's lab zmonfared.github.io/DSAIlab/]: Anima will present how can we capture dynamics of transient activities such as well-known sharp wave ripples (SWR) based principled tools from dynamical system.
3-001, poster session 3 (Sat, Mar. 14, 13:15): @armanbehrad.bsky.social on unsupervised method to find behaviorally relevant internal states from data. We tested it w/ RNN & monkey data doing cognitive tasks & RNN trained with deep RL on a naturalistic plum tracking task.
1-031, Poster session 1 (Thu, Mar. 12, 20:30): @maxschwabe.bsky.social (a Cosyne presenter awardee 🎉, a MASTER student) will present how decomposing neural dynamics to intrinsic and input-driven modes can tell us how naturalistic decision computations are realized in the RNNs.
CMC lab is heading to #Cosyne2026, with 3 wonderful posters (1-031, 3-001, and 3-008 also see thread 👇), 2 new enthusiastic team members (@clairesturgill.bsky.social and @maxschwabe.bsky.social ), and tons of excitement for discussions and new ideas!
This is very cool. Much faster DSA. Although we still don't know what DSA findings actually mean about brains.
In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Feb 19, Thu, 2pm CET), @neurostrow.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇). Want to attend? Send an empty email to virtual talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
Our next paper on comparing dynamical systems (with special interest to artificial and biological neural networks) is out!! Joint work with @annhuang42.bsky.social , as well as @satpreetsingh.bsky.social , @leokoz8.bsky.social , Ila Fiete, and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social : arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25943
Built a domain-agnostic peak detection algorithm and now hunting for datasets with known/annotated peaks to test it on 👀
Any domain works—signals,bio,astro,finance, spectroscopy, etc.
Got data or know a benchmark? Would love pointers 🙌
#SignalProcessing #DataScience #TimeSeries #OpenData #Research
For the first Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social in 2026, @marcusghosh.bsky.social on Jan 15, Thu, 2pm CET, will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ @neural-reckoning.org]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
A diagram showing 128 neural network architectures.
How does the structure of a neural circuit shape its function?
@neuralreckoning.bsky.social & I explore this in our new preprint:
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Wanna compare dynamics across neural data, RNNs, or dynamical systems? We got a fast and furious method🏎️
The 1st preprint of my PhD 🥳 fast dynamical similarity analysis (fastDSA):
📜: arxiv.org/abs/2511.22828
💻: github.com/CMC-lab/fast...
I’ll be @cosynemeeting.bsky.social - happy to chat 😉
We made DSA up to 150 times faster 🤯 by introducing 3 new optimization objectives and solvers to speed up the DSA alignment step. Instead of enforcing exact orthogonality at every iteration, we use faster formulations that approximate or penalize the constraint.
If you need an efficient tool to compare neural dynamics across neuroscience and AI, look no further!
Thrilled to see the first preprint of the lab out 🤩 Check it out if you need to compare dynamics in your data and RNN (or any other combinations of dynamical systems)!
Wanna compare dynamics across different systems?
See our fast and furious method developed by us (@armanbehrad.bsky.social @mmdtaha.bsky.social, @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social) together with our wonderful collaborators!
You can already use our code: github.com/CMC-lab/fast...
This work couldn’t have happened without my wonderful collaborators: @neurostrow.bsky.social and Ila Fiete (master minds behind the original DSA), @mmdtaha.bsky.social, Christian Beste, and @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social ; and support from the @cmc-lab.bsky.social .
Just published in JOSS: 'TranCIT: Transient Causal Interaction Toolbox' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.09302
In our Learning Club @cmc-lab.bsky.social today (Dec 4, Thu, 2pm CET), @hritz.bsky.social will tell us about his recent paper (👇) [joint work w/ Jonathan Cohen lab]. Want to attend, send an empty email to virtual talk-link-request@cmclab.org to get the link!
We put out this preprint a couple months ago, but I really wanted to replicate our findings before we went to publication.
At first, what we found was very confusing!
But when we dug in, it revealed a fascinating neural strategy for how we switch between tasks
doi.org/10.1101/2024.09.29.615736
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Very much looking forward to this exciting lineup!
Also excited about presenting our work on how timescales of environmental dynamics affect foraging decisions (Wednesday), a work together w/ Tiffany Ona, @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social, Bruno Cruz, @xindipoo.bsky.social and Peter Dayan
The final paper of my PhD is now out as a preprint. This is a follow-up piece in series of two companion papers modelling awareness and suppression in a new variant of continuous flash suppression.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.17154
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Don't miss our posters at #BernsteinConference 😍
If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇
P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...
What defines a brain state? 🧠
If you are also interested in answering this question, join us in "Toward a joint definition of neural-behavioral states", #BernsteinConference full-day workshop, Co-orgnized by @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social and I. (1/4)
Don't miss today's workshop by two of our members (@armanbehrad.bsky.social and @neuroprinciplist.bsky.social) on brain state!
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinConference
Very much look forward to our workshop (co-organized with @armanbehrad.bsky.social) today with a great lineup of speakers who combine a wide spectrum of approaches and methods to have a joint definition of brain-behavior state!
bernstein-network.de/bernstein-co...
#BernsteinConference
On the Thursday's morning we continue with @colehurwitz.bsky.social, @engeltatiana.bsky.social, @apalmigiano.bsky.social, @acnavasolive.bsky.social, and I (4/4)
We continue with @memming.bsky.social, Justus Kautz, @maryamshanechi.bsky.social (3/4)
On the first day, we start with @neuralnestbird.bsky.social, @mehranahmadlou.bsky.social, @vmsruetten.bsky.social (2/4)
