Adam
@asmoulder3195
Neuroscience / BME post-doc @CarnegieMellon who likes studying motor cortex, JRPGs, and any form of rock music. http://www.adamsmoulder.com
After some lovely updates thanks to reviewer/editor feedback, this work is now published in Neuron! cell.com/article/S08966… We find monotonic reward signals in M1/PMd, and interactions of reward value with neural reach signals that correlate with an inverted-U in performance
Excited to announce “A neural basis of choking under pressure” is up on biorxiv, where we look at motor cortical population correlates of reward-mediated performance in primates. biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… Summary in thread below (1/11)
My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15
This will not make America great. This will in the long run hurt American tech leadership. 50% of the NSF budget is about $4.5B - this is a rounding error in the proposed *increases* to ICE and defense which are > $100B
NSF budgets slashed by 50%, ongoing grants cancelled, NSF staff drastically reduced, all 37 divisions abolished, and grants will now be reviewed by a political kommissar. How will that help technological leadership? linkedin.com/posts/yann-lec…
This is why we do what we do: show what's possible at the medical frontier through academic pilot trials in order to de-risk the industry then refining and scaling these discoveries to reach patients!
Excited to build on pioneering work from @WillettNeuro, @SergeyStavisky, and Eddie Chang labs showing 3–4x faster communication (60–80 words per minute) to approach natural speech speed!
So if you’re a computer vision PhD and you get a speeding ticket, you can get deported. Got it, OK.
BYU PhD student Suguru Onda just had his student visa revoked without notice. He’s being told to go back to Japan within 15 days because of his alleged criminal history. But he only has two speeding tickets and a fishing citation from 2019 that was dismissed. @kslnewsradio
60 Minutes“could not find criminal records” for 75% of the 238 men the Trump admin sent to a Salvadoran prison. Of the 22% that had records, the “vast majority are for non-violent offenses.” Trump admin still insists they’re “terrorists.” Moral bankruptcy cbsnews.com/news/what-reco…
I am no conspiracy theorist, but it really feels like they are trying to destroy our country from within. Health care, public schools, universities, research, law firms, federal workers, the environment are all getting the axe. What was it again that it made America great?…
It's clear that many do not understand what @NIH-funded research does to improve health. It's time to revive a study published 10 years ago that provides incredible information about this. link in the comment Every single new drug approved by the FDA from 2010–2016 was built on…
Using a brain–computer interface to challenge monkeys to override their natural time courses of neural activity reveals that the time courses are highly robust, suggestive of network-level computational mechanisms @aaronbatista @YuLikeNeuro @AlanDegenhart @ErinnGrigsb…
Can the motor system use sensory expectations to prepare for unexpected events? Excited to share my latest work with @andpru – where we establish that sensory expectations shape neural population dynamics in motor circuits! 🧵 and paper below 1/
What hides in the complex responses of prefrontal cortex neurons? How does this fascinating brain area implement advanced cognitive functions? Find this out in our manuscript, now published in #ScienceAdvances science.org/doi/10.1126/sc… [1/14]
If you ever need a good cry come back to this video. Excited to show this to my students tomorrow in our lecture about motor cortex.
And, perhaps most importantly, our speech neuroprosthesis has enabled him to talk to his young daughter using his own voice. 8/9
Monkey study reveals science behind 'choking under pressure' trib.al/kL3xmuz
Out now! @YuLikeNeuro, @Shenghao_W, @SmithLabNeuro, @BrentDoiron, @cc_huang11 et al. present a procedure to customize spiking network models that reproduce the population-wide covariability of large-scale neuronal recordings. nature.com/articles/s4358… ➡️rdcu.be/dT5i9
When you fail to perform at your best right when it matters the most, what's going on in your brain? We can now provide an explanation: Exceptionally high stakes interfere with motor preparation. We can see this in motor cortex. Next up: finding out why. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
As scientists, we go to conferences but don’t connect with the local community at all. Thanks to @jscdavis, #BlackInNeuro will be hosting a Brain Carnival during SfN at a local Chicago church for the community to meet Black scientists, play games & learn about the brain 🧠✨
Join us for a Brain Carnival & Healthy Aging Event in Chicago, IL on October 5th from 1-4 PM! 🎪 Get ready for hands-on fun! Explore the anatomy of a real human brain 🧠 & dive into interactive activities that spark curiosity for all ages—kids & adults alike! 👧🏽🧔🏽♂️ (1/4)
Hello all! Please give this a read - and amplify! #SimCo2024 #ThankAMonkey #EndSufferingThruScience
We are sharing this important commentary with the research community as a Commentary piece just published in the Journal of Neuroscience (@SfNJournals), written by several of us (just as representatives). Also relevant to #SimCo2024. jneurosci.org/content/44/37/…
1/5 NEW in NEURON! We asked what forelimb M1 contributes to striatal and behavioral dynamics. Short answer: almost everything*. @Markolas11 trained mice to perform a joystick reaching task, w/ and w/out a go cue, then lesioned CFA tinyurl.com/M1Lesions @cmuneurosci @CmuScience