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… joining the Flatiron Institute, Chung was a postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University’s Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. Before that, she was a fellow in computation in … -
Eero Simoncelli, director of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN), has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He joins 119 national and 25 … -
While artificial intelligence systems have advanced tremendously in recent years, they still lag behind the performance of real brains in reliability and efficiency. A new type of computational … -
Bacteria tails rotate counterclockwise to propel the bacteria through liquid environments and clockwise to change direction. Previous research has suggested that the direction of the spin depends on … -
The Transmitter — an editorially independent publication of the Simons Foundation — has selected Flatiron Institute neuroscientist SueYeon Chung as one of its 2025 Rising Stars in Neuroscience. The awards … -
The Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN) at the Flatiron Institute and the Simons Foundation Neuroscience Collaborations invite applications to participate in a workshop aimed at developing a potential … -
A new study finds that mice with variants in autism-associated genes have difficulty flexibly updating their expectations. The mice relied more on frontal brain areas associated with … -
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected Associate Research Scientist Alex Williams of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience as a 2025 McKnight Scholar. The … -
The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) announced today that Center for Computational Neuroscience (CCN) director Eero Simoncelli will receive its prestigious Swartz Prize, which it annually awards to “an … -
The new model developed by researchers at the Flatiron Institute proposes that biological neurons have more control over their surroundings than previously thought, something that could be replicated … -
Neuroscientists at the Flatiron Institute and New York University developed a new theoretical framework that describes our ability to both absolutely and relatively gauge the properties of sensory … -
… program is an initiative of the Leon Levy Foundation, which supports the preservation, understanding and expansion of knowledge, with a focus on the ancient world, arts and … -
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded neuroscientist SueYeon Chung one of its prestigious research fellowships. The honor recognizes “early-career researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments … -
For the first time, the five Flatiron Institute research centers (astrophysics, biology, mathematics, neuroscience and quantum physics), as well as its Scientific Computing Core and the Foundation Models … -
Flatiron Research Fellow Brett Larsen is developing better ways to train deep learning models. -
With a new computational model, Flatiron Institute researchers have made big steps in understanding how our brains classify. This advance could improve efficiency in artificial neural networks. -
A team of scientists at the Flatiron Institute and their colleagues have mapped out the entire early visual system — from eyes to neurons — for a tiny parasitic wasp … -
Flatiron data scientist Billy Broderick is on a mission to make neuroscience research easier and more efficient by developing user-friendly software for analyzing and modeling data. -
The Esther A. & Joseph Klingenstein Fund has announced that neuroscientist SueYeon Chung is one of this year’s recipients of a prestigious Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience. -
At the Flatiron Institute, Tim Oleskiw combines experimental and computational methods to figure out how our visual systems work. He hopes his work can help spur advances in … -
With the new model, researchers reveal how memories and learned behaviors can remain strong, even in the face of shifting neural representations. -
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded its prestigious research fellowship to four past and present Simons Foundation researchers. This year’s 125 fellowship recipients “represent the most … -
How we perceive the world is an age-old question. Flatiron Institute researcher Jingyang Zhou is part of a new generation of scientists tackling it from a different … -
By learning the language of Mongolian gerbils, neurostatistician Alex Williams is studying the ways our brains’ neural circuits change over time. -
Massive neural recordings combined with advanced analyses can distill insight from enigmatic data. How far can these tools take us? -
At the intersection of neuroscience, computer science and theoretical physics, Flatiron Institute neuroscientist SueYeon Chung is working to understand the inner workings of the brain — and along the … -
In efforts to construct a map of neural connections in the brain, researchers at the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Neuroscience are turning to an unlikely source … -
… group leaders, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows, computational engineers and support staff. Simoncelli sees the center as “living at the nexus” of three endeavors and communities: systems neuroscience … -
… population and the encoded task information. She then joined MIT as a Fellow in Computation in the department of brain and cognitive sciences. While there, Chung applied … -
Simons Junior Fellow and computational neuroscientist Kathryn Bonnen uses advanced modeling and experimental techniques to help us understand what happens inside our minds as we perceive the world … -
… Dmitri Chklovskii will lead the neural circuits and algorithms group, previously part of the Flatiron Institute’s Center for Computational Biology. The group aims to reverse-engineer …
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The tool, called CaImAn, replaces the process of manually tracking the location and activity of neurons. -
First-of-its-kind study could aid research into how our sense of smell is affected by the decreasing number of neurons in our noses as we age. -
The study, the first to look at the cerebellum’s granule cells in living animals while they learn a task, reveals that the cells not only relay sensory …