Usman Farooq

Postdoc at @Yale @YaleNeuro @YaleMed @YalePsych

[Usman Farooq @usmanfarooq201]

What is the role of geometric experience in the development of the hippocampus toward representing space/forming memories? Excited to share our latest preprint addressing this and related questions😀 More in the wonderful🧵or link below:

https://t.co/TxD4lQxOFu

[George Dragoi @GeorgeDragoi2]

Hippocampus generates an internal model of Euclidean space based on a generative grammar. @usmanfarooq201 and I asked how much of the internal model and grammar are a priori (Nature) and what is contributed by postnatal geometric experience (Nurture): https://t.co/hhIZlKPGGs 1/5

[George Dragoi @GeorgeDragoi2]

Hippocampus generates an internal model of Euclidean space. We ventured in a spatial odyssey exploring how much of the internal model is a priori, innate (Nature) and what is contributed by postnatal experience of Euclidean geometry (Nurture)
Our answer@ https://t.co/HkwkvAj4oO👇

[Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience @KavliAtYale]

Please welcome @usmanfarooq201, this week's #TraineeTuesday star! This @Yale_INP alum and current postdoc in the @GeorgeDragoi2 lab studies the hippocampus & memory. Let's learn more about his research journey! ⬇️🧵[1/5]

[Usman Farooq @usmanfarooq201]

@Yale @YaleMed @KavliAtYale @YalePsych @YaleNeuro

[Usman Farooq @usmanfarooq201]

What is the role of geometric experience in the development of the hippocampus toward representing space/forming memories? Excited to share our latest preprint addressing this and related questions😀 More in the wonderful🧵or link below:

https://t.co/TxD4lQxOFu

[George Dragoi @GeorgeDragoi2]

Hippocampus generates an internal model of Euclidean space based on a generative grammar. @usmanfarooq201 and I asked how much of the internal model and grammar are a priori (Nature) and what is contributed by postnatal geometric experience (Nurture): https://t.co/hhIZlKPGGs 1/5

[Usman Farooq @usmanfarooq201]

very, very cool new insights from the lab...🤩

[George Dragoi @GeorgeDragoi2]

How do we learn from numerous experiences throughout the day without major interference? How does the brain optimize rapid encoding based on prior experience? Check our latest article published today @NeuroCellPress:
https://t.co/0HIYwKeyKv
@YalePsych @YaleNeuro @YaleMed
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[Usman Farooq @usmanfarooq201]

@richardbcrouse hahah I did not know this about Cajal!😮 yes, must frame...

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

The songs of singing mice can help give new insight into the #evolution of vocal communication systems in mammals. ($) https://t.co/b9j7eMVp52 #neuroscience

[Marius Pachitariu @marius10p]

Story: 1. Neurons in the brain are very chatty: they fire action potentials, their basic unit of communication, even when there is nothing to communicate. For example in this video, in visual cortex recordings in complete darkness. Lots of chatting:

[Ian Stevenson @ihstevenson]

Not for nothing - neural coding is a core underlying concept behind 7 Nobel Prizes by my count (Adrian, 1932; Hess, 1949; von Békésy, 1961; Hartline, 1967; Hubel & Wiesel, 1981; Axel & Buck, 2004; O'Keefe & the Mosers, 2014). Adrian's was literally for the idea of rate codes.

[Stéphanie Trouche @stpntr]

Functional dissociation between the neuronal reinstatement of a memory and its behavioural expression. Latest work @CellCellPress @MRCBNDU @natnatnatter @vtlsantos @GabyMohamady @TommasEllender and more!...https://t.co/x4uWZXIZpl

[Reza Zadeh @Reza_Zadeh]

More generally: tasks for which humans consciously set the rules, instead of inheriting the laws of the universe, are often easier to automate. This is why I'm less excited about automating games, versus say, vision, language, & locomotion. https://t.co/DD4OASe2vC

[Neuron @NeuroCellPress]

Check the preview for the Senzai et al. paper from Buzsaki lab by @QuentinPerreno1 & @martin_a_vinck https://t.co/ztOUgkMLCI

[Marcelo Dietrich @dietrich_mo]

https://t.co/FNZROCyzHD

[Usman Farooq @usmanfarooq201]

Excited to share our recent work published in @sciencemagazine on the development of hippocampal neuronal sequences involved in memory formation/consolidation!

@Yale @YalePsych @YaleMed

https://t.co/BDDOFG5H0k

[Alex Kwan 關進晞 @kwanalexc]

An impressive study tracking the emergence of hippocampal activity sequences across neurodevelopment in @sciencemagazine - congrats to our neighbors @usmanfarooq201 and @GeorgeDragoi2 @YalePsych https://t.co/NCT4EvmF0H

[Jess Cardin @jess_cardin]

Very nice paper on hippocampal development out today from George Dragoi and Usman Farooq, our colleagues here at Yale: https://t.co/ylUlcLJ2X4

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

By observing how newborn rats first navigate and begin to remember the environments they are born into, researchers have gained new insight into how brains develop the ability to turn experiences into memory. ($) https://t.co/RGar4t3sPZ #neuroscience

[Neuron @NeuroCellPress]

Replay, revisited: CA1 assembly responses during spatial working and reference memories. Plus, rat 'mind-reading.' Csicsvari & O'Neill groups https://t.co/vYWsCZEJck

[Michael Higley 🧠🌈🔬 @mjhigley]

Awesome collaborative effort from Yale labs, showing links between Ca2+ and BOLD signals in mice!

[Mary Patton @marypatton2]

Still not used to this beauty 🤩 - GCaMP6f signaling in auditory cortical interneurons imaged with an intravital Olympus 2photon microscope