| 04/2024 | GT receives the PRX Life Reviewer Excellence 2024 Award. |
| 04/2024 | Congrats to Timothy Crimmins on getting the BioSURF fellowship! |
| 04/2024 | We received the Sloan Research Fellowship Award! |
| 03/2024 | Kaining Zhang and Ryan McGee presented their research at the COSYNE Conference. |
| 08/2023 | Ryan McGee is starting a postdoc in our lab. He’ll study efficient coding in the olfactory system. Welcome Ryan! |
| 03/2023 | We presented our research at the APS March Meeting, the COSYNE Meeting, and the “Workshop on Cognitive Noise and Economic Decisions” at Columbia (https://econ.columbia.edu/event/cd-conf/) |
| 08/2022 | We are organizing three Focus sessions on the Physics of Neural Systems for the 2023 APS March meeting. |
| 08/2022 | Eleonora Bano is joining our lab as a graduate student! She will be co-supervised by Adam Kepecs and Gaia Tavoni. |
| 06/2022 | Welcome to Kaining Zhang, who’s starting a post-doc in our lab to study optimization strategies for memory retrieval in attractor neural networks. |
| 05/2022 | New paper in Nature Human Behaviour! We identified fundamental principles governing the trade-off between accuracy and cognitive effort in human inference. Tavoni G, Doi T , Pizzica C, Balasubramanian V, Gold JI. Human inference reflects a normative balance of complexity and accuracy. Nature Human Behaviour. 2022; doi: 10.1038/s41562-022-01357-z. |
| 05/2022 | Mahsa Khoshkhou is joining our lab as a postdoc to develop a data-driven dynamical model of the OFC that will shed light on economic decision-making processes. Welcome to our lab and to St. Louis! |
| 10/2021 | New paper in PLoS Computational Biology! We proposed a simple statistical mechanism to explain the influence of contextual information on cortical odor representation and perception. Tavoni G, Kersen DEC, Balasubramanian V. Cortical feedback and gating in odor discrimination and generalization. PLoS Computational Biology. 2021; 17(10): e1009479. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009479. |
| 09/2021 | We presented our research at the WUSTL Neuroscience Retreat! |