Blake Porter

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🧠🐁💪🏻💻🎮 Postdoc (he/him) @ Brandeis in the Jadhav lab. Studying the neural mechanism of inferential reasoning. Matlab junkie. Video game enthusiast. Formerly BU and Otago.
G Scholarhttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=G5j_tUkAAAAJ&hl=en
My websitehttps://www.blakeporterneuro.com/
Blake PorterNov 18, 2024
Earl K. MillerNov 18, 2024
Prefrontal transthalamic uncertainty processing drives flexible switching
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08180-8
#neuroscience
Prefrontal transthalamic uncertainty processing drives flexible switching - Nature

By examining neural responses from tree shrews performing hierarchical decision tasks with rule reversals, the authors identify a thalamocortical mechanism for regulating cognitive flexibility.

Nature
Blake PorterNov 18, 2024
Earl K. MillerNov 18, 2024
Representational spaces in orbitofrontal and ventromedial prefrontal cortex: task states, values, and beyond
https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(24)00202-9
#neuroscience
Blake PorterAug 17, 2023
Alicia Izquierdo, Ph.D.Aug 17, 2023
Novel way to study the transition from #goals to habits: motivating animals by palatability rather than biological need. Authors find spontaneous and abrupt transitions to #habits, blocked by dorsolateral striatal lesions. Beyond the classic #devaluation experiment! Awesome ✨stuff by Kuchibhotla lab #neuroscience https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.05.547783v1
Blake PorterJun 25, 2023
Gina PoeJun 24, 2023
Hey Mastodon users! This is my first post as I just opened my account migrating from @doctorpoe on twitter. I hope to find my old friends and make new ones among the mastodon conoscenti.
Blake PorterJun 16, 2023
I sometimes get tetrodes (targeting dCA1) that only have clusters that are massive “long” ovals due to complex spiking (pic 1). While others have more “normal” circular clusters, presumably little cmplx spk (pic 2). Do we know why this is? These TTs are right next to each other
Blake PorterMay 26, 2023
I... "patched" a neuron with a tetrode?
Blake PorterMay 24, 2023
When you're excited to get more benefits (403b, FSA, life ins.) after switching off a postdoc fellowship, only to learn Brandeis doesn't match 403b for postdocs 🙃😠. Any other postdocs get a match? Y'all wonder why there is a postdoc shortage too
Blake PorterMay 15, 2023
Melanie MitchellMay 15, 2023

New postdoc job in AI / CogSci available at the Santa Fe Institute.

Are you a grad student or postdoc interested in working with me on AI systems for abstraction and analogy?

See https://santafe.edu/about/jobs/postdoc-ai for more info. Apply by June 9.

Please share!

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Jobs: Postdoctoral Fellow (Artificial Intelligence / Cognitive Science) | Santa Fe Institute

SFI seeks afull-time postdoc to collaborate in developing AI models of conceptual abstraction and analogy-making.

Blake PorterMay 2, 2023
Preston LabMay 2, 2023

Our new paper at Cerebral Cortex finds that representations of space in hippocampus and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) bias how we make decisions in time, demonstrating our ability to generalize knowledge across cognitive domains. 1/6

https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhad092

Generalization of cognitive maps across space and time

Abstract. Prominent theories posit that associative memory structures, known as cognitive maps, support flexible generalization of knowledge across cognitive do

OUP Academic
Blake PorterApr 4, 2023
Prof Hugo SpiersApr 4, 2023
RT @hiallen72
Interesting to see slowly formed place-cell like tuning in the ACC. Shared and unique properties of place cells in anterior cingulate cortex and hippocampus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.29.437441v2