Suliann Ben Hamed
@BenHamedLab
Neuroscience research director, passionate about the brain and mind
Not all mammalian brains were created the same. The granular prefrontal cortex, an area appearing the novo in primates is wired for mental representations and precise executive control of the rest of the brain. Very important ground-breaking work 👇 cell.com/cell/abstract/…
Brand new in PNAS: Subnets of the AMN (action-mode network) for decision-making, action, feedback & the bodily self pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…. Great explainer thread 🧵 bsky.app/profile/gordon…
PLOS Biology Non-human primates can flexibly learn serial sequences and reorder context-dependent object sequences journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…
Out today in @Nature: we show that individual neurons have diverse tuning to a decision variable computed by the entire population, revealing a unifying geometric principle for the encoding of sensory and dynamic cognitive variables. nature.com/articles/s4158…
When student complaints were made against a senior female neuroscientist, her institution launched a one-man inquiry that found her blameworthy merely ‘for doing my job’, she writes: a ‘case of institutional gaslighting’ in betrayal of scientific standards ow.ly/qVNX50WgzKP
Low frequency oscillations – neural correlates of stability and flexibility in cognition nature.com/articles/s4146… #neuroscience
Personal care products such as lotion and perfume can repress the human oxidation field—a beneficial chemical microenvironment formed around the body’s surface that helps protect it from volatile organic compounds—new @ScienceAdvances research finds. scim.ag/4ecC7zY
As neural implants become more integrated with human cognition and identity, the risks posed by their sudden discontinuation are unique and demand urgent attention, argues a Comment article in @NatureMedicine. go.nature.com/3G08PIm 🔒
SimCo and the European Animal Research Association (EARA) join forces. At SimianCollective 2025 @kirk_EARA from @The_EARA will present the EU perspective as well as EU-Simia Japan 2025 !!! eujapan2025.sciencesconf.org @_janzimmermann_ @neurodisney @stevewcchang
Neural models for detection and classification of brain states and transitions nature.com/articles/s4200… #neuroscience
The changes in neural complexity and connectivity in thalamocortical and cortico-cortical systems after propofol-induced unconsciousness in different temporal scales doi.org/10.1016/j.neur… #neuroscience
News! "NIH will undertake a review of all policies and practices within its Intramural Research Program (@IRPatNIH ) to establish academic freedom as the rule and not the exception.” 1/3
Check out our new community review in Predictive Processing and its neuronal implementation!
How does our brain predict the future? Our review of predictive processing + research program is now on arXiv arxiv.org/abs/2504.09614 50+ neuroscientists distributed across the world worked together to create this unique community project.
Firing rates in visual cortex show representational drift, while temporal spike sequences remain stable sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Great work by Boris Sotomayor and with Francesco Battaglia
Nature Human Behaviour General anaesthesia decreases the uniqueness of brain functional connectivity across individuals and species nature.com/articles/s4156…
🧠 Just out in Nature: A human brain map of mitochondrial diversity. A powerful collaboration with Mosharov and @MitoPsychoBio. Big step toward bridging cell biology and neuroimaging! 🔗 nature.com/articles/s4158… 🧬 #MitoBrainMap #neuroscience
Distinct attentional characteristics of neurons with visual feature coding in the primate brain doi.org/10.1126/sciadv… #neuroscience
Individual variability of neural computations underlying flexible decisions nature.com/articles/s4158… #neuroscience
Alpha and beta activity, linked to top-down processing, vary with age and influence working memory and cognitive development. doi.org/10.1113/JP2873… #neuroscience