Sanjay Manohar

[Sanjay Manohar @BrainInTheMind]

@OUPAcademic @OxNeuro @OxExpPsy

[Oxford Academic @OUPAcademic]

Our latest Oxford Biology Primer by Sanjay Manohar @braininthemind is a concise introduction to best practices for coding that everyone who uses code in scientific research should know about.

Find out more: https://t.co/rdMvIVeLNH

[bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv_neursci]

Why motor learning involves multiple systems: an algorithmic perspective https://t.co/xQCMQLoHdO #biorxiv_neursci

[Sanjay Manohar @BrainInTheMind]

It also simulates human ERP responses to grammar. Overall, our rapid plasticity rules capture the structure-content duality of thought, unlike other neural networks. 6/6

[Sanjay Manohar @BrainInTheMind]

Human thought follows structural rules, independent of what we are thinking about. We separate form & content. E.g, a sentence follows a given syntax, independently of its topic. How can the brain separate content from structure? 🧵on our preprint https://t.co/pt0JgdtQDE 1/6

[Sanjay Manohar @BrainInTheMind]

The model runs in continuous time, and can encode words presented at variable speed. The synaptic rules predict lexical and syntactic priming seen in humans. It can learn syntax by very slow plasticity at the same synapses. Both order and morpheme-based grammars work. 5/6

[Sanjay Manohar @BrainInTheMind]

We're looking for a graduate research assistant for 2 years! Come work in my lab - cognitive neuroscience / computational neurology (🧠https://t.co/pztK6qRoAl), in Oxford, on motivation in Parkinson's disease. Patient-facing role. Apply now: https://t.co/xFlxB3ImPP

[British Neuroscience Association @BritishNeuro]

Learn to code smarter, not harder!
Join Dr Sanjay Manohar (Oxford) @BrainInTheMind for an online training session:

📅 27 Nov 2025 | 🕑 2–5 pm, Online

Clean, reusable, efficient code in Python, MATLAB & R.

https://t.co/RX3ddY7Rmz

#Neuroscience #Coding #ResearchSkills #Python

[Gheorghe Iuga @gheorgheiuga]

Probably the coolest use of sin and cos functions you have ever seen!

[CLaE @leafs_s]

Nature Neuroscience

Large-scale cortical functional networks are organized in structured cycles

https://t.co/kscZkJDKT7

[Pieter Roelfsema @Pieters_Tweet]

In this short letter we explain why binding problems occur in the brain and why deep neural networks need to cope with them. We respond to Scholte and de Haan (TICS 2025), who previously claimed the opposite. https://t.co/j0ngmVhpdj

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Neural evidence for modality-independent storage in working memory
https://t.co/hQ1Vv6tVKR
#neuroscience

[Sanjay Manohar @BrainInTheMind]

@Pieters_Tweet Excellent response that echoed my thoughts! Fixed conjunctions not enough. My opinion is that the brain solves binding not through synchrony, but through rapidly changing selectivity. We showed that STP at the postsynaptic membrane would be enough: https://t.co/yi4UT9FsOP

[Sanjay Manohar @BrainInTheMind]

@OxNeuro @OxNeurosurgery @NDCNOxford @uclneuro @uclnpp @UCLNeuroSoc @OxExpPsy @MRCBNDU @UCL_ICN @UCLIoN @HarithAkram @Manjit_Matharu

[Brain @Brain1878]

Hirschbichler et al. find that DBS-induced VTA inhibition does not impair reinforcement learning, but does lead to more strategic betting behaviour. They propose that the VTA may help sustain reward-driven behaviours over time. https://t.co/wwXAqrJIWQ

[Brain @Brain1878]

Hirschbichler et al. find that DBS-induced VTA inhibition does not impair reinforcement learning, but does lead to more strategic betting behaviour. They propose that the VTA may help sustain reward-driven behaviours over time. https://t.co/wwXAqrJIWQ

[Sanjay Manohar @BrainInTheMind]

So great to see high quality behavioural modelling together with population decoding!

[DurstewitzLab @DurstewitzLab]

How do animals learn new rules? By systematically testing diff. behavioral strategies, guided by selective attn. to rule-relevant cues: https://t.co/Bxr8xalkmr
Akin to in-context learning in AI, strategy selection depends on the animals' "training set" (prior experience).

[BNDU, Oxford @MRCBNDU]

@UKRI_News - a new MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Restorative Neural Dynamics🎉🏆🚀
National flagship aiming to transform medical device-based treatments for brain conditions. #neurotechnology
@UniofOxford @cardiffuni @GreatOrmondSt @imperialcollege @UniofNewcastle @The_MRC