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Xue-Xin Wei

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Assistant professor @UTAustin; computational/theoretical neuroscientist.

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    We are searching for a new faculty member who works in the interface between neuroscience, AI, and computer science. This is a joint search between Departments of Neuroscience and Computer Science at UT Austin. Aplication link:
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    Honored to be named a Sloan Research Fellow. I am grateful for the support from my family, mentors, collaborators, mentees, and friends over the years, and for the Sloan Foundation for supporting our research. #SloanFellow
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    🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers.
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    🎉Congrats to the 126 early-career scientists who have been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship this year! These exceptional scholars are drawn from 51 institutions across the US and Canada, and represent the next generation of groundbreaking researchers.
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    Second, biases reported in orientation perception can be explained by an efficient neural code together with a prior distribution that is nearly uniform.
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    Overall, the results provide a unified theory of attractive & repulsive biases reported over decades of research. OA link:
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    (19/n) Its representation should be more modifiable compared to the cortex, which may maintain multiple hypotheses of the world. The long-term memory in the cortex can correct the thalamus if needed.
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    (20/n) According to this view, it makes sense to have multiple (rather than one) copies of head direction representation. This provides one conceptual framework to think about why there are so many brain areas in the mammalian brain that encode head direction.
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