Fish Qian
fishqian.bsky.social
Fish Qian
@fishqian.bsky.social
Postdoc with Jeff Magee;
Interested in learning. Search for parsimony and the least wrong answer of nature.
How prior experience biases new learning for generalization? new preprint is out:
1) behavioral and hippocampal generalization co-emerged in a novel context.
2) BTSP was involved in forming cross-context stable representations, as well as aligning novel neural dynamics to familiar subspace.
Memory traces bias new learning for hippocampal generalization https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.24.690297v1
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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It's officially published!! In my main postdoc work with @markplitt.bsky.social and @lgiocomo.bsky.social, we found that the hippocampus simultaneously encodes an animal's spatial position and its experience relative to reward in parallel population codes. 🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A flexible hippocampal population code for experience relative to reward - Nature Neuroscience
Sosa et al. find that hippocampal neural activity in mice encodes both environmental location and experience relative to rewards, spanning distances far from reward, through parallel and flexible popu...
www.nature.com
June 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019).

The renamed:

Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)
December 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM