Ziyi (Zoe) Duan

Ph.D. student in ClaySpace Lab @NYUPsyc | RA @lewpealab | B.A. & M.S. @sysu_1924
Visual working memory & Cog neuroscience🧠
Love science, cooking & @DengPan18

[Ziyi (Zoe) Duan @ZoeDuan2]

The final version is finally out!
Thanks a lot to Dr. Clayton Curtis and all labmates for the generous help! Please check this out if you're interested in neural representations of visual working memories in human brains 😉
https://t.co/kL3udrTU3r @eLife

[Cheng Xue @_ChengXue]

Attendees of #SfN26: be an early planner and mark your calendar on Sun Nov 15, 9:30-noon EST (WCC Ballroom B) for a Minisymposium, where a splendid lineup of scientists will showcase their works across methods and model systems that connect neural geometry with flexible behavior

[Doris Tsao @doristsao]

We have 15 open positions at Astera Neuro! We're hiring experimental and computational neuroscientists and engineers to build a large-scale research effort aimed at understanding consciousness = the brain's internal model of world and self.
https://t.co/3modGIsJRG

We're looking for:
• Experimental Neuroscientists
• Computational Neuroscientists
• Optical Engineers
• Hardware Engineers
• Software Engineers
• Probe Engineers
• and more!

I'll share much more about our scientific vision soon. For now: I know we could never have built this in academia. The confluence of talent across different domains, the purposive design of the org structure and open science approach, and the deep, long-term support, all aimed at cracking the brain's internal model, is unprecedented.

If you want to understand consciousness, if you sense a huge gap between our internal experience of the world and our scientific understanding of it, if you believe systems neuroscience needs a fundamentally different, collaborative, and scaled up approach, we are building the ideal research environment for you.

I've never been more excited in my life. Across Astera Neuro, Astera AI, and Astera Simplex, we're creating a whole new discipline around one question: how does the brain build a world model: a symbolic system that perceives the real world from flickering sensory input streams and can think, plan, and experience? Everyone here is converging on this question from a different direction. The degree of conceptual focus combined with tactical breadth is thrilling.

If this sounds like you, come join us.
https://t.co/3modGIsJRG

[Ziyi (Zoe) Duan @ZoeDuan2]

Excited to share our new preprint: Temporal expectation triggers competition in working memory that leads to forgetting.
Appreciate all the help and support from @lewpealab @ZiyaoZhangZZ, and @elizebethnpntbr!
https://t.co/TnAJ4KHvvp

[Nanthia Suthana @SuthanaLab]

New lab paper! 🧠

Human hippocampal & MTL theta activity is linked to eye movements, but only during memory-guided navigation. Theta is also strongest during longer, more exploratory eye movements.

https://t.co/oK6rzUYsIa

Huge congrats to @humza_n_zubair & team! 👏

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Innovations and Inventions at @MIT_Picower
Neuroblox
https://t.co/wJ9IYjCXoF
#neuroscience

[Ziyi (Zoe) Duan @ZoeDuan2]

Come and join us for a fun discussion about working memory!

[Mrugank Dake @the_memory_guy]

Hola #Sfn2025,
Clayspace Lab is excited to share 4 new posters from our lab on Working memory and neural dynamics! 🧠

Come stop by at our poster boards or find us around to discuss cool science. Details in the ad below 👇!
@SfNtweets

#Neuroscience #SfN25

[postlelab @postlelab]

@KordingLab (and while I'm at it, the mother post would afford discussion of the new @eLife model, and the creation of @ImagingNeurosci : https://t.co/pzbGqrD69p)

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

I said it before and I'll say it again: Cognition is rhythmic
Contents of visual predictions oscillate at alpha frequencies
https://t.co/F5725iDQIJ
#neuroscience

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

New paper: Working memory readout varies with frontal theta rhythms. A theta traveling wave swept across the frontal cortex like radar, modulating working memory performance. Because cognition is rhythmic.
https://t.co/nmCcINu3ef
#neuroscience @MIT_Picower @mitbrainandcog @MIT

[Mark Ho @mark_ho_]

We’re hiring!

@sucholutsky and I are seeking a postdoc and RA for a project on trust in AI systems with folks at NYU, Princeton, BU, and Cornell

Positions open until filled. Apply soon! Please share 🔁

postdoc: https://t.co/iARVtYrMLN

RA: https://t.co/YKC320iSdA

[Ziyi (Zoe) Duan @ZoeDuan2]

Very cool and in-season trends!!!
Sensory reformatting for a working visual memory https://t.co/ceXD05N7H9

[Javier Santoyo @jsantoyo]

How to write a scientific paper in fifteen steps. #ScientificPaper #PaperWriting @PLOSCompBiol
https://t.co/GDMUxaZi5M

[Earl K. Miller @MillerLabMIT]

Your brain's two halves hand-off perception like a baton in a relay race.
Miller Lab Postdoctoral Fellow Matt Broschard talks about his new discovery about the brain's hemispheres.
https://t.co/nO8HNpQ24g
#neuroscience

[Ziyi (Zoe) Duan @ZoeDuan2]

Very cool!!

[Kristopher Torp Jensen @KrisTorpJensen]

I’m super excited to finally put my recent work with @behrenstimb on bioRxiv, where we develop a new mechanistic theory of how PFC structures adaptive behaviour using attractor dynamics in space and time!

https://t.co/umhunhmUk0

1/8

[Ole Jensen @olejensen.bsky.social @OleJensenOHBA]

In our Trends in Cogn Sci paper we point to the connectivity crisis in task-based human EEG/MEG research: many connectivity metrics, too little replication. Time for community-wide benchmarking to build robust, generalisable measures across labs & tasks. https://t.co/Hu1cXUSszA

[Ziyi (Zoe) Duan @ZoeDuan2]

Super interesting and insightful!

[Ziyi (Zoe) Duan @ZoeDuan2]

That’s so cool and important 👍

[Hunter Schone @HunterSchone]

Now out in @NatureNeuro

What happens to the brain’s body map when a body-part is removed?

Scanning patients before and up to 5 yrs after undergoing an arm amputation, we discovered the brain’s body map is strikingly preserved despite amputation

https://t.co/ffWmt20DGF

🧵1/18

[Dr.Neutrina @nilosarraf]

Just attended a talk by MIT’s @MillerLabMIT , organized by @PessoaBrain for SPN: “Cognition Emerges from Neural Dynamics.” Highlight: “Brain, as an analog computer, where the brainwaves do the computations.” Sharing a few key slides. #neuroscience #brain #brainwaves

[Tianhe Wang @TianHWang]

https://t.co/LqpqRi8z1A
Excited to share our new paper in @ScienceAdvances ! We report a novel phenomenon in motor control: your current movement is repelled away from your previous one. Modeling suggests this repulsion reflects efficient coding in motor planning.

[Nature Neuroscience @NatureNeuro]

Review: A neural manifold view of the brain

https://t.co/60H0hOohmG