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Sep 25, 2021 13 tweets 5 min read
Something new to start your Saturday! Our preprint describing how using algebraic topology to characterize neural populations explains behavior, attention, mind wandering, and the mechanisms underlying them. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
1/13 This is the work of phenomenal graduate student Tevin Rouse (shown here enjoying some augmented reality). Tevin came with a terrific math background and a truly special ability to learn many new things and notice how they all fit together. 2/13 Image
Apr 1, 2021 10 tweets 4 min read
It's a new paper day, so here goes my very first #tweeprint! It was a pleasure to work on this with the incredible Ramanujan Srinath and Doug Ruff. doi.org/10.1101/2021.0…
1/10 We can use visual information in very flexible ways (you might grab or ignore an ice cream cone depending on whether it's yours), which means that visual information must be routed through our brains flexibly through processes like selective attention 2/10