@apeyrache.bsky.social
Space, Sleep, and Spikes | Associate Prof @ McGill, Montreal Neurological Institute | Co-director, The Quebec Sleep Research Network
@apeyrache.bsky.socialthis one is pretty illuminating though
@apeyrache.bsky.socialThat time of year when family and friends ask if I've heard about the research that just won the Nobel Prize.
@apeyrache.bsky.socialOf course peer review is important, and it should not be abandoned. Here I’m only discussing the selection process among a pool of excellent applications and i propose some leads to make it more efficient.
@apeyrache.bsky.socialthanks! But no, AI vetting sounds like a terrible idea...
@apeyrache.bsky.socialGrant peer review costs a lot: ~$40k per application in reviewer time, with proposals reviewed again and again.
In @thetransmitter.bsky.social , I propose a partial lottery: reviewers decide pass/fail, chance picks among the passes, and "unmissable" ideas and ECRs get protected routes.
@apeyrache.bsky.socialGlad to see this out! And congrats for all the hard work!!
@apeyrache.bsky.socialInteresting piece in which @itsneuronal.bsky.social suggests dropping the common bit-per-spike metric & reporting the duration of held-out data to validate a model
Seems to be just 120ms of data for a sharply tuned, high firing rate head-direction cell, i.e. just 3-4 spikes
@apeyrache.bsky.socialNew paper alert! 🚨
We found that the brain's compass is remarkably stable at two scales
1️⃣ the system maintains its internal organization for weeks
2️⃣ It "remembers" its orientation for weeks, even after a single visit
This may be key to how the brain aligns its other maps.
Paper: rdcu.be/e3waP
@apeyrache.bsky.social🚨Important paper alert (a bit late, but see below)
Guo et al show that while place cells may not initially form a manifold reflecting the environment's topology, the topology is learned across days, during sleep.
Another story to tell about this paper 👇
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