Yael
yaelniv.bsky.social
she/her pronounced Ya'elle, not like the university. Comp cog neuro, feminist, activist, mom. Stop the war NOW. End the occupation. Equality will bring security.
👤 Joined on 16 November 2024
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Then I found a 2010 CogSci paper by Gershman, Cohen & Niv laying out very elegantly how these functions could interact. That pretty much sealed what I wanted to study (good thing @yaelniv.bsky.social was hiring!).
Show PostFast forward to this new preprint, led by the phenomenal @christinamaher.bsky.social , bridging a computational view of attention and learning with the human sEEG recordings made possible by @ignaciosaezphd.bsky.social's lab.
Show PostWhat I never imagined was getting to test those ideas with sEEG electrodes inside the human brain -- recording from neural populations in real time, fast enough to see attention and learning unfold in tandem, trial by trial.
Show PostThen I found a short 2010 CogSci paper by Gershman, Cohen & Niv laying out very elegantly how these functions could interact. That pretty much sealed what I wanted to study (good thing @yaelniv.bsky.social was hiring!).
Show PostIn 2011, my interests in cognitive neuroscience converged on one stubborn intuition: it made no sense that how the brain learns and how it pays attention should be two fundamentally different processes.
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