The neuroconnectionist research programme

A Doerig, RP Sommers, K Seeliger… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) inspired by biology are beginning to be widely used to
model behavioural and neural data, an approach we call 'neuroconnectionism'. ANNs have …

Quantifying behavior to understand the brain

TD Pereira, JW Shaevitz, M Murthy - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past years, numerous methods have emerged to automate the quantification of
animal behavior at a resolution not previously imaginable. This has opened up a new field of …

The remarkable robustness of surrogate gradient learning for instilling complex function in spiking neural networks

F Zenke, TP Vogels - Neural computation, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
Brains process information in spiking neural networks. Their intricate connections shape the
diverse functions these networks perform. Yet how network connectivity relates to function is …

Decoding the brain: From neural representations to mechanistic models

MW Mathis, AP Rotondo, EF Chang, AS Tolias… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
A central principle in neuroscience is that neurons within the brain act in concert to produce
perception, cognition, and adaptive behavior. Neurons are organized into specialized brain …

Low-dimensional dynamics for working memory and time encoding

CJ Cueva, A Saez, E Marcos… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Our decisions often depend on multiple sensory experiences separated by time delays. The
brain can remember these experiences and, simultaneously, estimate the timing between …

Recurrent neural networks with explicit representation of dynamic latent variables can mimic behavioral patterns in a physical inference task

R Rajalingham, A Piccato, M Jazayeri - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Primates can richly parse sensory inputs to infer latent information. This ability is
hypothesized to rely on establishing mental models of the external world and running mental …

Dynamical flexible inference of nonlinear latent factors and structures in neural population activity

H Abbaspourazad, E Erturk, B Pesaran… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Modelling the spatiotemporal dynamics in the activity of neural populations while also
enabling their flexible inference is hindered by the complexity and noisiness of neural …

From observed action identity to social affordances

GA Orban, M Lanzilotto, L Bonini - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2021 - cell.com
Others' observed actions cause continuously changing retinal images, making it challenging
to build neural representations of action identity. The monkey anterior intraparietal area …

Modulation of neural co-firing to enhance network transmission and improve motor function after stroke

K Ganguly, P Khanna, RJ Morecraft, DJ Lin - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Stroke is a leading cause of disability. While neurotechnology has shown promise for
improving upper limb recovery after stroke, efficacy in clinical trials has been variable. Our …

Motor cortex activity across movement speeds is predicted by network-level strategies for generating muscle activity

S Saxena, AA Russo, J Cunningham, MM Churchland - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Learned movements can be skillfully performed at different paces. What neural strategies
produce this flexibility? Can they be predicted and understood by network modeling? We …