Whole-brain neural substrates of behavioral variability in the larval zebrafish

Posted by dbos Rockefeller, This Week: Neuroscience

Kavli Affiliate: Alipasha Vaziri | Authors: Jason Manley and Alipasha Vaziri | Summary: Animals engaged in naturalistic behavior can exhibit a large degree of behavioral variability even under sensory invariant conditions. Such behavioral variability can include not only variations of the same behavior, but also variability across qualitatively different behaviors driven by divergent cognitive states, […]


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The effects of task similarity during representation learning in brains and neural networks

Posted by dbos Columbia, This Week: Neuroscience

Kavli Affiliate: Stefano Fusi | Authors: Nicholas Menghi, William Jeffrey Johnston, Simone Vigano’, Max Andreas Bosse Hinrichs, Burkhard Maess, Stefano Fusi and Christian F Doeller | Summary: The complexity of our environment poses significant challenges for adaptive behavior. Recognizing shared structures across tasks can theoretically improve learning through generalization. However, how such shared representations emerge […]


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