Jesse MilesJun 26
DurstewitzLab

How do animals learn new rules? By systematically testing different behavioral strategies, guided by selective attn. to rule-relevant cues: https://rdcu.be/etlRV

Akin to in-context learning in AI models, strategy selection depends on the animals' "training set" (prior experience). And humans follow similar strategies and express neural representations with similar properties as in rats.

Fantastic work by Florian Bähner, Hazem Toutounji, Tzvetan Popov and many others - I'm just the person advertising!

Jun 26 at 3:43pmWeb
Show threadJesse MilesJun 26

@DurstewitzLab Wow, very cool! Glad to see more work like this - similar to my final Ph.D. project on behavioral flexibility and mPFC rhythms during strategy switching.
https://www.doi.org/10.1101/lm.053911.123
(May be paywalled for a couple more days, sorry!)

Awesome to see more folks putting in the effort to quantify behavior like this. And the cross-species comparison is great - it has been cool to see this become more common. Congrats!

Show threadDurstewitzLabJun 27
@jessetm Thanks for sharing your work, indeed very related (will share it with my co-authors!), sorry we missed it! Looking forward to reading it ...
Show threadJesse MilesJun 27
@DurstewitzLab No worries! There's so much coming out it's hard to keep pace with it all