Arman Behrad

Tomorrow in our CMC Unit Learning Club (LC) series, we’re excited to welcome @neurostrow.bsky.social, who will present his latest advances in DSA! 📅 Oct 15 | 2 PM CEST Want to join? Simply send a blank email to virtual talk-link-request@cmclab.org to receive the meeting link!

Curious what happens when we apply fastDSA across a pool of RNNs and IBL brain-wide data? Could a new perspective on how underlying neural dynamics change help us better understand neural data? Join me and find out. #BernsteinConference

Would be really happy to see you there! We’ll be presenting new findings from UNITE, along with some exciting methodological advances. #BernsteinConference

We, the Natural Decision Making Group and the Embodied Decision Making Group, are joining forces to establish the CMC Unit, a joint research unit to uncover computational, biological, and ecological principles underlying adaptive decision-making. You can read more about us here: cmc-unit.org

I'm very excited to present a poster (C-18, Wednesday 9:30) at #CCN2026, describing neural signatures of internal decision-making in the monkey vlPFC. If you want to learn more about how sensory value influences percept selection, come check it out!

I’ll be leading a hands-on workshop on fastDSA, where we’ll explore scalable dynamical similarity analysis for neural and artificial systems. Curious about fastDSA, Check the short introduction here: bsky.app/profile/arma... #IMPRSCoNI #SummerSchool #Neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience

Why did RNNs fail to learn long-term dependencies? What if we added one more modification, maybe now? It turns out we can give a pretty broad, analytical answer! See the attached paper for a rigorous treatment using centre manifolds, low-rank RNNs, and dynamical systems theory! go.aps.org/4fXWEeF

1/11 Happy to share our TICS paper on using the flexibility of one of the most basic cognitive functions, perception, to understand one of the most complex cognitive dysfunctions, psychiatric conditions (also my first formal work in computational psychiatry 🎉) 📄: www.cell.com/trends/cogni... 🧵 : 👇

We have 2 open PhD positions @mpicybernetics.bsky.social, if you’re interested in reinforcement learning, recurrent neural networks and analyses of neural & behavioral data from novel, cross-species foraging experiments, there’s still time to apply: nextcloud.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.php/s/...

Finished the Leipzig Half Marathon 🏃‍♂️💥 On to the next one!

Many thanks to @klaus-tschira-stiftung.de and @gso-forresearchers.bsky.social for this wonderful opportunity to study the mechanisms underlying naturalistic decision processes in the context of foraging behavior! We’ll also soon have openings for PhD students, stay tuned!

We apologize for the delay but our next profile is here! Dr. Ann Kennedy (@antihebbiann.bsky.social) combines theory & biological data to study how internal states shape social behavior by reconfiguring neural circuit dynamics. Follow the link to learn more! www.storiesofwin.org/profiles/202...

I had the chance to attend it in person. It's really amazing, highly recommend.

Out now in Science: The Truman Show, but with killifishes! "Continuous recording of a vertebrate’s adult life from adolescence until death would provide a complete view into the behavioral architecture of aging." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Enthusiastic to present our latest results for you and get your feedback.

Are you #Coayne2026? Wanna know how we can have a common notion of state in mind and machines and find them in an unsupervised fashion with temporal embeddings based on dynamic similarity check @armanbehrad.bsky.social and @maxschwabe.bsky.social’s poster today, 3-001!

3-001, poster session 3 (Sat, Mar. 14, 13:15): @armanbehrad.bsky.social on unsupervised method to find behaviorally relevant internal states from data. We tested it w/ RNN & monkey data doing cognitive tasks & RNN trained with deep RL on a naturalistic plum tracking task.

1-031, Poster session 1 (Thu, Mar. 12, 20:30): @maxschwabe.bsky.social (a Cosyne presenter awardee 🎉, a MASTER student) will present how decomposing neural dynamics to intrinsic and input-driven modes can tell us how naturalistic decision computations are realized in the RNNs.

CMC lab is heading to #Cosyne2026, with 3 wonderful posters (1-031, 3-001, and 3-008 also see thread 👇), 2 new enthusiastic team members (@clairesturgill.bsky.social and @maxschwabe.bsky.social ), and tons of excitement for discussions and new ideas!

Seems super interesting. 🤩

The activity of certain neurons may influence our endurance for exercise, and these could be targeted to help us run faster for longer

For Spanish researchers interested in postdoc positions: my lab at Amsterdam is looking for candidates to apply for a Ramon Areces postdoctoral fellowship, to work for 2 years on compneuro and digital brains. Deadline Feb 23. Please spread the word! More info: www.fundacionareces.es/fundacionare...

Built a domain-agnostic peak detection algorithm and now hunting for datasets with known/annotated peaks to test it on 👀 Any domain works—signals,bio,astro,finance, spectroscopy, etc. Got data or know a benchmark? Would love pointers 🙌 #SignalProcessing #DataScience #TimeSeries #OpenData #Research

This book is a wonderful, synthetic and richly illustrated journey through the natural history of the vertebrate brain 🤩 A big thank you to the authors 🙏 "A major theme in the evolution of the telencephalon has been the emergence of novel pathways... 1/2

Way back in 1999, Kenji Doya sketched a big picture theory of the brain: 1️⃣The cerebellum is specialized for supervised learning 2️⃣The basal ganglia are for reinforcement learning 3️⃣The cerebral cortex is for unsupervised learning How does this hold up in 2026? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

From sensory to perceptual manifolds: The twist of neural geometry doi.org/10.1126/scia... #neuroscience

Thank you for having me on BrainInspired, Paul @braininspired.bsky.social! It was such an honor to be on my favorite show—a rare place where we can leisurely talk about manifolds, latent circuits, power laws, and other esoteric ideas, and still be taken seriously in knowing they are all real.

🚨new work with the dream team @danakarca.bsky.social @loopyluppi.bsky.social @fatemehhadaeghi.bsky.social @stuartoldham.bsky.social @duncanastle.bsky.social We use game theory and show the brain is not optimally wired for communication and there’s more to its story: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our next paper on comparing dynamical systems (with special interest to artificial and biological neural networks) is out!! Joint work with @annhuang42.bsky.social , as well as @satpreetsingh.bsky.social , @leokoz8.bsky.social , Ila Fiete, and @kanakarajanphd.bsky.social : arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25943

If you are @ #BernsteinConference we have 4 posters, thread👇 P II 25, Tue 18–19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P IV 5, Wed 14-15:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P II 25, Tue 18-19:30: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B... P I 11, Tue 16:30-18: abstracts.g-node.org/conference/B...