Resources | Cosyne 2023

March 2023

Cosyne 2023, it's a wrap!! What a fantastic meeting in Montreal, with some seriously amazing computational & systems neuroscience 😍🧠 There was so much information that it would be next to impossible to intake and process it all in six days, which is why I'm writting this resource 🤗 With that, let me explain this blog post's aims & audience. Let's go!

A brief aside: this blog post is NOT the trends that were observed at Cosyne. If you are looking for that go to the companion post: Trends | Cosyne 2023.

Blog post aims: This blog post is a collection of all the 💯 resources that were generated and discussed during the conference. It is a quick and easy way to go back and catch what you missed, or if you didn't attend to still take part in Cosyne 2023! I hope this post makes computational & systems neuroscience more accesible for all.

Who is this blog post for? This blog post is for anyone and everyone who wants to learn more about computational & systems neuroscience! This includes (1) people that came to Cosyne and (2) those that couldn't make it; pretty all encompasing I hope 😅

Let's get started! I have set up this blog post so that you can re-live or live Cosyne 2023 at three discrete levels of depth. Please feel empowered to choose your own experience. In order of increasing involvement:

Read the session and talk titles below
This will give you the gist of topics at Cosyne 2023. There is an important reason why I wanted to only see the talk titles without authors, institutions, etc. in one place. If you want to know why and more importantly be challenged visit the companion piece: Trends | Cosyne 2023.

Click on the "Live-Thread"
This will give you a little bit more depth because it includes (1) the talk and discussion highlights and (2) the key slides from each of the talks as I was listening live! Hopefully you'll get a real feel for the science without having to listen to the whole talk!

Click on the "Recording"
This gives you the most accurate account of what happened, but is of course a time investment!

If you make it to the end, you'll find some of my favorite visuals from Montreal & Mont Tremblant. No cheating though! Thanks for sticking around - happy learning 🤓

Thursday 3/09

Consistent and interpretable learnable latent embeddings for joint behavioral and neural analysis

Poster Session 1
| Live-Thread | List of Poster Titles | World Wide Neuro Posters |

Friday 3/10

Session 2 - Movement in the Brain
| Live-Thread | Recording |

Dynamical modeling, decoding, and control of multiscale neural dynamics underlying behavior
Do spontaneous movements drive neuronal activity in the primate visual cortex?
Targeted stimulation of movement ensembles in the motor cortex drives learned movements
A cell type specific error correction signal in mouse posterior parietal cortex

Session 3 - Neural Signatures of Cognition
| Live-Thread | Recording |

Identifying mechanisms of cognitive computations from spikes
A neural circuit mechanism for context—dependent selection via population dynamics
Neural and behavioral signatures of inference over time

Session 4 - Integration in the Brain
| Recording |

The ‘low—power mode’ of neocortex: energy use and coding precision during food scarcity
Investigating the neural basis of derivative gain in the visual—motor pathway for pursuit
A systematic approach to quantify the contribution of individual glomeruli to olfactory percepts
Linking transcriptomic, functional, and connectivity data in individual neurons

Panel Discussion - Increasing and supporting diversity in your lab

Session 5 - Brains in Time & Space
| Live-Thread | Recording |

Topology preserved schema of space in the orbitofrontal cortex
Coding of action × position in the medial entorhinal cortex of flying bats
A region—specific code for specific and generalized representations across prefrontal cortex and hippocampus
Neuronal allocation to a memory trace in mice
Neuronal allocation to a memory trace in mice

Reception - In Memory of Krishna Shenoy

Poster Session 2
| Live-Thread | List of Poster Titles | World Wide Neuro Posters |

Saturday 3/11

Session 6 - Decision Making
| Live-Thread | Recording |

Neural architecture of confidence
Understanding everything, everywhere: distributed evidence accumulation in corticostriatal circuitry
Procedural replay in dorsolateral striatum is revealed using an unsupervised point process model
Unsupervised discovery of a decision—making algorithm directly from neural data

Session 7 - Machine Learning
| Live-Thread | Recording |

Rethinking how we Analyze Data from Neuroscience Experiments: the Case for Sparse Deconvolutional Learning
Dynamic inverse reinforcement learning for complex time—varying behavior
Interpretable deep learning for deconvolution of multiplexed neural signals

Session 8 - Circuits in Context
| Live-Thread | Recording |

Neuronal mechanisms underlying social motivation
Social Exclusion Modifies the Neural Representation of Physical Pain
Exploring the architectural biases of the canonical cortical microcircuit
Mechanisms underlying the self-organization of patterned activity in the developing visual cortex

Session 9 - Behavior & Circuits
| Live-Thread | Recording |

Love, death, and oxytocin—the challenges of mouse maternal care
A neural clock underlying the temporal dynamics of an auditory memory
Distinct excitatory cell—types differentially contribute to auditory—guided behavior
From Behavioral Syllables to the Book of Life: A Dynamic Behavioral Topic Model
Causes and consequences of exploration across development

Social - Simons Foundation

Poster Session 3
| Live-Thread | List of Poster Titles | World Wide Neuro Posters |

Sunday 3/12

Session 10 - Network Function
| Live-Thread | Recording |

The role of population structure in computations through neural dynamics
Feedback Controllability as a Normative Theory of Neural Population Dynamics
State space structure of random recurrent neuronal networks
Local connectivity and synaptic dynamics in mouse and human neocortex

Session 11 - Synaptic Underpinning
| Live-Thread | Recording |

The synaptic dynamics of olfactory learning and behavior
Flexible neuromodulation of synaptic strengths via electrical shunting in dendritic spines
Balanced excitation and inhibition could help estimate gradients

Session 12 - Credit Assignment
| Live-Thread | Recording |

Cognition, Politics, Morality, Gender: You Name It – Other Primates Have It, Too
Vectorized error signals in cortical dendrites during a brain—computer interface task
Biologically plausible backpropagation across arbitrary timespans via local neuromodulators
The geometry of sensory and cognitive representations implies a population’s causal impact on choice
BCI learning phenomena can be explained by gradient—based optimization

Closing Remarks
| Live-Thread | Recording |

Monday 3/13

Workshops - Day 1
| Live-Thread | Workshop Info |

Tracks spanning one day

Making plasticity work: biologically plausible rules for learning and credit assignment
Neurodevelopment and Evolution: The Formation of Innate Circuit Priors and Behaviors
Are neurons interpretable? Disentangled representations and modularity in biological and artificial brains
Taming Complexity: Discovering Interpretable Latent Spaces in Human Brains & Behaviors
From connectomics to a quantitative understanding of neural network function
Learning offline: replay, planning and memory consolidation across species
How do interneurons control neural computations and memory processes? An integrated experimental-computational approach
Shaping circuit functions via plastic and diverse inhibition

Tracks spanning two days

Neural mechanisms of sequence learning and execution
Seeking universality while celebrating heterogeneity among biological attractor networks

We're now going to briefly dive into the Taming Complexity workshop because as far as I know it's the only workshop at Cosyne23 to record and post lectures 👇👇👇

Taming Complexity - Discovering Interpretable Latent Spaces in Human Brains & Behaviors
| Live-Thread | Workshop Website |

Recording | Introduction
Recording | Speech encoding in single neurons and neural populations
Recording | The geometry of flexible domain-general cognition in human medial frontal cortex and hippocampus
Recording | As simple as possible but no simpler: Irreducible complexity in motor control
Recording | Structure and variability in human brains through the lens of naturalistic movements
Recording | Tracking changes in mesoscale dynamics during neuroprosthetic control using latent spaces
Recording | Uncovering the neural representation of speech in a person with paralysis
Recording | The Case for Uninterpretable Latent Spaces
Recording | Representation distances that satisfy the triangle inequality and capture noise correlation structure
Recording | Learning representations of behavior across many timescales
Recording | Vignettes in Interpretable Behavior Modeling

Tuesday 3/14

Workshops - Day 2
| Live-Thread | Workshop Info |

Tracks spanning one day

Top-down interactions in the neocortex: Structure, function, plasticity, and models
A wrinkle in time: Neuroscience at multiple timescales
Dynamic geometrical transformations: Language of flexible brain computations
What I cannot create I do not understand: analyzing neural and behavioral data with generative models
Dendritic computations and neuro-inspired AI
Computational mechanisms underlying decision uncertainty and confidence in brain and behavior
Why networks learn what they do: Insights from deep learning theory for neuroscience
The social brain: circuits, systems, and species

Tracks spanning two days

Neural mechanisms of sequence learning and execution
Seeking universality while celebrating heterogeneity among biological attractor networks

Congrats on making it to the end!! As promised, here are some of my favorite shots from Cosyne 23 both from Montreal and Mont Tremblant 😎

Please check out the companion post Trends | Cosyne 2023 where I lay out Cosyne 23 trends, and if you're really motivated I encourage you go back to the Cosyne 2022 Resources post to see how the field has evolved over the past year 😊 Until next time!

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