Zebra finch females flexibly communicate with each other and with AI-driven acoustic interaction models

Kavli Affiliate: Sarah Woolley | Authors: Logan S James, Benjamin Hoffman, Jen-Yu Liu, Marius Miron, Milad Alizadeh, Emmanuel Fernandez, Matthieu Geist, Diane Kim, Aza Raskin, Jon T Sakata, Emmanuel Chemla, Olivier Pietquin and Sarah C Woolley | Summary: Vocal interactions are widespread across animals and important for many social behaviors (1–4). For example, during human […]


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Cortical maps diverge, representations converge along cortical hierarchy

Kavli Affiliate: Martin Lindquist | Authors: Bogdan Petre, Martin A Lindquist and Tor Wager | Summary: Brain maps (e.g. retinotopy, somatotopy) vary across individuals. This is thought to reflect underlying computational differences. However, artificial neural networks (ANNs) show that similar performance and internal representations can coexist with diverse circuit layouts. Consequently, we tested the presumption […]


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Magnonic spontaneous oscillation induced by parametric pumping

Kavli Affiliate: Clarence Chang | Summary:Spontaneous dynamic systems have attracted significant attention for their rich underlying physics such as phase-locking and synchronization. In this work, we report a new mechanism of generating magnetic spontaneous oscillation via parametric pumping. By applying a pump tone to excite propagating spin waves in a yttrium iron garnet delay line, […]


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Flux Pumped Kerr-Free Parametric Amplifier

Kavli Affiliate: Irfan Siddiqi | Summary:We propose a flux-pumped superconducting parametric amplifier based on symmetrically threaded superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) that achieves a Kerr-free operating point under suitable drive conditions. Eliminating the Kerr nonlinearity is advantageous for quantum-limited amplification, as it mitigates unwanted distortions in squeezing and prevents degradation of both gain and quantum […]


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