Saman Abbaspoor

Experience reorganizes content-specific memory traces in macaques 🐒🧠. @perpl_lab @AymanAljishi tinyurl.com/Perpllab-react

Advancing a temporal science of behavior Opinion by Drew Abney, Caitlin Fausey, Catalina Suarez-Rivera, & Catherine Tamis-LeMonda (@TamisLeMondaNYU) Free access before Aug 13: tinyurl.com/5x5xja8w

On that note, I'll be looking for postdocs, students, and likely a computational lab tech/lab manager or research software engineer. Please share, and if this kind of work (and the prospect of helping get a new lab off the ground) sounds interesting to you, please reach out!

Thrilled to announce I'll be starting my own neuro-theory lab, as an Assistant Professor at @YaleNeuro @WuTsaiYale this Fall! My group will study offline learning in the sleeping brain: how neural activity self-organizes during sleep and the computations it performs. 🧵

🚀 🚀Preprint out now on bioRxiv! “KIASORT: Knowledge-Integrated Automated Spike Sorting for Geometry-Free Neuron Tracking” Brings geometry-free, per-neuron drift correction, without uniform movement assumptions in large-scale recordings. 🔗biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… 👇Code + docs

Thrilled to see our TinyRNN paper in @nature! We show how tiny RNNs predict choices of individual subjects accurately while staying fully interpretable. This approach can transform how we model cognitive processes in both healthy and disordered decisions. doi.org/10.1038/s41586…

New paper shows how nonhuman primates learn (5-) object sequences and use context cues to mentally re-order objects within a learned sequence – showing that NHPs form non-spatial cognitive maps 1 / 2 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

Elegant theoretical derivations are exclusive to physics. Right?? Wrong! In a new preprint, we: ✅"Derive" a spiking recurrent network from variational principles ✅Show it does amazing things like out-of-distribution generalization 👉[1/n]🧵 w/ co-lead @dekelgalor & Jake Yates

Info theory offers powerful measures for capturing complexity & interaction among elements of a complex system, like the brain! 🧠 Here's our new unified reference for key info-theoretic time series measures ft. 📊 visuals, ➗equations, & 💬descriptions: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13080

(1/6) Thrilled to share our triple-N dataset (Non-human Primate Neural Responses to Natural Scenes)! It captures thousands of high-level visual neuron responses in macaques to natural scenes using #Neuropixels. Link: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Please RT🙏🚀 I will be submitting applications for #Tenure_Track #AssistantProfessor positions this fall across the departments of #neuroscience, #psychiatry, #psychology, #BME! Please let me know if you will be hiring and see below for details on my vision and details!👇1/N

We are super happy to announce the third Workshop of Ideas in Neuroscience! We will once again look critically at assumptions of modern neuroscience: what does it mean that the brain encodes information? Is this a useful approach, or a metaphor that blurs our vision?

Excited to share our new study: "Cold memories control whole-body thermoregulatory responses" by @Andrea_MZamora, @Akaron0884 & team at @tcddublin, in collaboration with @lynchielydia & @DrChristineAnnD @RyanLabTCD @Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Online now: Integrating endocannabinoid signaling, CCK interneurons, and hippocampal circuit dynamics in behaving animals dlvr.it/TKJSbS

🎉 New in #ICLR2025, we present BRAID for input-driven nonlinear dynamical modeling of neural-behavioral data. BRAID disentangles the intrinsic dynamics shared between modalities from input dynamics and modality-specific dynamics. 👏@Vahidi_Parsa @omidsani 🧵, Paper & Code ⬇️

How do local brain perturbations affect global processes? Be careful about where you stimulate the brain! doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…

Introducing Sybeco: a virtual journal club on Systems, Behavioral & Computational Neuroscience Papers are presented by the authors themselves!! Open to all! Agenda: tinyurl.com/ym5xejww Talks now on YouTube: youtube.com/@najafilab Contact me to get on the invite list.

Can birds repurpose their calls for new goals? 🐦 Our study shows that zebra finches can learn to use their distance calls to request food—and even modulate them based on the context! A thread from nature.com/articles/s4159…

We are #hiring for a fully funded PhD position at TU Dresden. Message me if you're interested in joining our team. I’m attending COSYNE 2025 if you would like to meet! #cosyne2025 #cosyne25