Important info on the state of nonhuman primate research in the US. This is such a core part of neuroscience work. www.jneurosci.org/content/44/3...#neuroskyence
COVID-19 and polio vaccines, HIV/AIDS treatments, blood transfusions, and organ transplantation are just a few of the medical advances made possible by research involving nonhuman primates, specifical...
To me the most interesting thing is *when and why* regions diverge. Trace the evolutionary path back far enough and you'll find a point where all origins overlap. As functions elaborate sometimes a region takes on a new mode of operation, and other times it repurposes what made other regions work.
I have a copy of your book actually! Though now I'm forced to admit I haven't had time to read it yet :) I'll check out that section.
Just created a list with the sensorimotor people I was following/followed me (inclusion criteria slightly generous) Let me know if you want to be added, and repost (?) to spread the word go.bsky.app/U4oyFgw
The latest MotorNet release (v0.2.0) is live! This includes big changes, first and foremost, a COMPLETE SWAP from TensorFlow to PyTorch. As usual, you can install it via a pip command. motornet.org
Here is a list of people doing sensorimotor research and that have a BlueSky account: bsky.app/profile/did:... Too bad most of them are barely active here but this shows that there is potential….
Also, this gives a basis for why large-scale decoders can learn shared embeddings across individuals (see our paper on POYO: poyo-brain.github.io). And expect more of this to come soon!
Indeed, this isn't hypothetical! Last year, we used this alignment for decoders trained on healthy monkeys to generalize zero-shot to different monkeys for brain-controlled spinal stimulation after paralysis. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
This paper describes a neurotechnology that interacts with neural circuits in the spinal cord to restore arm and hand control after injury. With this implant, monkeys with paralysis recovered the abil...
In this paper, we show that the preserved neural dynamics enables transfer of decoders across individuals (offline). It seems this could improve our ability to provide BCIs with minimal retraining, especially in scenarios where obtaining training data is challenging or taxing.
New paper out this week in Nature! nature.com/articles/s41...@juangallego.bsky.social, and co-leads Mostafa + Joanna! I also want to say a word about the translational implications 👇
Recordings of neural populations from motor cortex and striatum spanning monkeys and mice demonstrate that neural dynamics in individuals from the same species are preserved when they perform sim...