Torben Ott

Neuroscientist - (Un)certainty, Cells, Dopamine&5HT - Experiments 🔗 Theory. PI Decision Circuits Lab at @bccn_berlin @HumboldtUni.

[Pip Coen @Pipcoen]

As people fill out our survey, we’ve been asked “What is the goal of the SAFE Labs Handbook?” Here’s some more info.

TLDR: Help build a practical, evolving tool to improve lab culture. Fill out the survey!
https://t.co/6mzAWPF5Iq

[Torben Ott @OttTorben]

Group leaders, postdocs, PhDs, undergrads: We need your feedback on our draft handbook in establishing and running SAFE labs (a practical, evolving tool to improve lab culture)! https://t.co/XaiFPytD8n

[Pip Coen @Pipcoen]

And of course, the all-important survey!

https://t.co/6mzAWPF5Iq

[Roberto De Filippo @RobertoDeF_]

Thrilled that our proposal (@OttTorben, @LabSchmitz) to investigate the effect of #Psilocybin 🍄 on cortical networks 🧠 was selected by the Openscope platform @AllenInstitute @LecoqJerome. Read more about it here: https://t.co/UNBgGTbMdf #psychedelics

[Torben Ott @OttTorben]

Thanks to the organizers and let's make labs more SAFE!

[Pip Coen @Pipcoen]

Never expected organising SAFE Labs with @BugeonS @ggFedericoRossi and Letizia Mariotti to be such a rewarding experience. Came away with so many new ideas, colleagues, and excess Italian calories ;) Thanks to our incredible attendees for making the meeting such a success!

[Torben Ott @OttTorben]

Thanks to all the speakers and co-organizers, this was such a wonderful day! #cosyne2024

[Kay M Tye PhD @kaymtye]

Such a fun day and amazing discussion about psychedelics #cosyne2024
@OttTorben @zmainen @achristensen56 @46and2neurons @KathaSchmack @_ramanujans
And David Jacobs

[Anqi Zhang @anqi_z]

Come for the cool-amazing-unique brains and behaviors, stay for the general mechanisms and inspiration for artificial agents. Feat. @cris_niell @LabVallentin @kelseytyss @evolvingORs @e_mackevicius @jzavatoneveth @OttTorben Lorenz Fenk and Barbara Webb

[Tatiana Engel @EngelTatiana]

Attentional mechanisms enable selective processing of information. With Ruobing Xia, @Xiaomo_CCLab, and Tirin Moore, we review work across species, forms of attention, and analysis levels, revealing convergence and differences. Out today in @TrendsCognSci: https://t.co/PtfGYvYv4L

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Synaptic wiring motifs in posterior parietal cortex support decision-making https://t.co/RpuueOS55J

[Torben Ott @OttTorben]

Our team is looking for a postdoc researcher to work on temporal cognition, serotonin, and decision-making. ERC-funded position at @bccn_berlin. See https://t.co/a8ByDvmHQg for details. Find me at our Cosyne workshop ⬇️

[Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin @HumboldtUni]

Dabei in Folge 3 der @Tagesspiegel-Reihe zu den 100 wichtigsten Köpfen der Berliner Wissenschaft: Torben Ott @OttTorben, Neurowissenschaftler am Institut für Biologie der HU & am @bccn_berlin, der zur Bewertung von Zeit aus neuronaler Perspektive forscht! https://t.co/G9BRLKZz8I

[Emerson F. Harkin @efharkin_]

What do you get when you combine RL and predictive coding? The in vivo activity patterns of serotonin neurons.

Excited to share a new theory and analysis to back it up! https://t.co/P6iYZClUGA

With @NeuroNaud and @JCBeique in collab with @grossmancooper & @JeremiahYCohen.

🧵

[HanganuOpatzLab @HanganuOpatzLab]

1/6 We are thrilled to share our latest paper published on @CurrentBiology today!
@ChenYuNan347 with the support of @johanna_kostka
and @SebBitzenhofer revealed that olfaction early in life is necessary for cognitive development.
https://t.co/bQhSxMyPpU

[Laura Lopez-Cruz @LauraLopezCruzz]

Mice reaching up for rewards! 🐭💪🏻

Current tasks for assessing motivation may have some extra cognitive demands not purely related to physical effort which may confound result interpretation and outcomes.

We´ve developed a task to minimise these confounds: the RED task! 🧵👇

[Christopher Rozell @crozSciTech]

Excited to share this paper using new neurotech and explainable AI to advance DBS for treatment resistant #depression (TRD). Team effort including @HelenMaybergMD, @sankar_alagapan and Patricio Riva-Posse. Summary thread!

https://t.co/7REq1gasDQ
@nature

PC: Mike Halerz

[Torben Ott @OttTorben]

@neurodaniela We do have the jclub open to local researchers (and see the lab website for the papers we've discussed!) - I guess you'll have to come to Berlin some time! 😀

[Torben Ott @OttTorben]

Finally read this in our jclub-water ingestion leads to long (30+min) activity increase in a subset of dopamine neurons, depending on projection (and in NAc dopamine might even decrease?!)-we should know how repeated, small water ingestion in our behavioral tasks affects dopamine

[James Grove @James_CR_Grove]

I’m excited to share that our paper is online today in @Nature. We investigate how animals learn what foods and fluids hydrate them. Sincere thanks to my mentor @zaknight and thanks to collaborators @berke_lab and @AnatolKreitzer. (1/6) https://t.co/lr0cnBXEPT

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Psychologists have posited hundreds of cognitive biases over the years. A fascinating new paper argues that they all boil down to one of a handful of fundamental beliefs coupled with confirmation bias. https://t.co/bDDmNfsSie

[Erik Hoel @erikphoel]

Yesterday a letter from 100 scientists declared the popular theory of consciousness - Integrated Information Theory - is "pseudoscience."

And that media about it is "scientific misinformation."

The letter is bad. Here's my reply why: https://t.co/HkBaIJYAMy

[bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv_neursci]

Attractor dynamics reflect decision confidence in macaque prefrontal cortex https://t.co/Rl1ijltI08 #biorxiv_neursci

[Torben Ott @OttTorben]

this sounds amazing!

[Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis, PhD @TrackingActions]

YOU can help us finalize raising funds by signing in support and getting involved ➡️ https://t.co/ZGwoDYFFgx

We just held our first 🧠🌩️ Workshop at @CampusBiotech with a small yet amazing, international group 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇪🇯🇵🇨🇭🇬🇧🇵🇹🇨🇾🇦🇹generously supported by @Boehringer

Let's do this!