Incorporating structural #plasticity in #SpikingNeuralNetworks ( #SNN) enables dynamic #synaptic connectivity, reflecting the #brain's adaptability. By modeling synaptic growth and pruning based on #calcium concentration, we can simulate processes such as #learning and #MemoryFormation. In this post, I reproduce the #NESTSimulator tutorial on structural plasticity, demonstrating its impact on network stability and #homeostasis:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2026-02-01-structural_plasticity/

#CompNeuro #Neuroscience #NeuralNetworks

Incorporating structural #plasticity in #SpikingNeuralNetworks ( #SNN) enables dynamic #synaptic connectivity, reflecting the #brain's adaptability. By modeling synaptic growth and pruning based on #calcium concentration, we can simulate processes such as #learning and #MemoryFormation. In this post, I reproduce the #NESTSimulator tutorial on structural plasticity, demonstrating its impact on network stability and #homeostasis:

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/blog/2026-02-01-structural_plasticity/

#CompNeuro #Neuroscience #NeuralNetworks

🤓 Students, brush up your Python for #CompNeuro, #Deep Learning, #NeuroAI & Comp Tools for #ClimateScience courses!

Self-paced, 7–15 Feb, with community support on Reddit.

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Thanks to everyone who came to our Academy Info Session!

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Thinking about joining us in July? Learn more about the Academy and ask questions in our live info sessions! Our last two are happening soon! 🎉 🤓

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Our first of four Academy Info sessions is happening soon! 🎉 🤓

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➗ Mathematics reveals brain changes

Study from MPI MiS introduces a novel mathematical approach that enables identification of specific brain regions whose connectivity shifts with age or differs in autism spectrum disorder.

Read the whole story 👉 https://bit.ly/4btK84c

#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro

➗ Mathematics reveals brain changes

Study from MPI MiS introduces a novel mathematical approach that enables identification of specific brain regions whose connectivity shifts with age or differs in autism spectrum disorder.

Read the whole story 👉 https://bit.ly/4btK84c

#BernsteinNetwork #CompNeuro

If you'd like to study Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, don't miss this info event on Wednesday! 👉 https://www.bccn-berlin.de/events-list/information-day-2026-international-graduate-programs-computational-neuroscience.html #CompNeuro #BernsteinNetwork

🧠 New preprint by Zhong et al. proposes a #synaptic mechanism for #chunking in #WorkingMemory.

Using short-term #plasticity and synaptic augmentation, their model shows how items can be temporarily suppressed and later retrieved as chunks, increasing effective capacity w/o increasing simultaneous activity.

🌍 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.109538.1

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro #SynapticPlasticity

If you'd like to study Computational Neuroscience in Berlin, don't miss this info event on Wednesday! 👉 https://www.bccn-berlin.de/events-list/information-day-2026-international-graduate-programs-computational-neuroscience.html #CompNeuro #BernsteinNetwork

RE: https://fediscience.org/@eLife/115871742804185192

Cool example of #theory meeting #biology: shows that efficient coding principles survive when models include realistic circuitry, noise, and metabolic constraints. A reminder that good theory does not require oversimplification.

#NeuralCoding #CompNeuro #Neuroscience

RE: https://fediscience.org/@eLife/115871742804185192

Cool example of #theory meeting #biology: shows that efficient coding principles survive when models include realistic circuitry, noise, and metabolic constraints. A reminder that good theory does not require oversimplification.

#NeuralCoding #CompNeuro #Neuroscience

🧠 New preprint by Shervani-Tabar, Brincat & @ekmiller on emergent #TravelingWaves in #RNN.

By aligning RNN dynamics to an empirically measured #NeuralManifold, they show that task-relevant TW can emerge through #learning, w/o hard-coding wave dynamics or connectivity. The cool thing here is that the waves are not imposed or engineered, but emerge naturally from learning under #BiologicallyPlausible constraints:

🌍 https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.01.08.698281

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro #NeuralDynamics #WorkingMemory

Read my new piece in the @thetransmitter on @rougier's 1000 neuron challenge

https://www.thetransmitter.org/computational-neuroscience/the-1000-neuron-challenge/

models, brains, and the value of scientific competitions as sites of integration!

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro

Also the #iBehave seminar series continues. First speaker will be Prof. Dr. Veronica Egger (University of Regensburg), talking about "Rhythms in the #OlfactoryBulb: From #NeuronalNetwork #oscillations to heartbeat interoception"

📅 Jan 12, 2026, 10:30 am
👤 Host: Gaia Tavosanis
💻 Zoom link via iBehave@uni-bonn.de

#CompNeuro #neuroscience #olfaction

🧠 New paper by Ishida et al who show how #neurons in the #Drosophila central complex implement vector inversion via #calcium spikes.

A single #NeuronalPopulation can flip the sign of its encoded vector by switching biophysical #spiking modes, enabling coordinate transformations through #PopulationDynamics rather than circuit switching.

Cool as it shows that computation is not imposed by the circuit, but emerges from the neuron’s own dynamics.

🌍https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.11.040

#Neuroscience #CompNeuro

Also the #iBehave seminar series continues. First speaker will be Prof. Dr. Veronica Egger (University of Regensburg), talking about "Rhythms in the #OlfactoryBulb: From #NeuronalNetwork #oscillations to heartbeat interoception"

📅 Jan 12, 2026, 10:30 am
👤 Host: Gaia Tavosanis
💻 Zoom link via iBehave@uni-bonn.de

#CompNeuro #neuroscience #olfaction