February 2025 It's official, Livia will move to The University of Cambridge in October 2025. The Berlin lab will continue at full steam first and then slowly wind down by end 2027, beginning 2028.
June 2024 David McAlpine and I write a noisy review for Biology.
April 2024 Berlin Brains 2024 - Urania. Caro and Livia talk about auditory statistical learning
April 2024 Vishal Kannan joins the lab to work on the SPP2411 LOOPs project. Great discussions ensue!
March 2024 The LOOPs SPP2411 has its first retreat!!
Jan 2024 Theatre of Memory. Livia participates in the Transdisziplinäres Symposium zur Neuronästhetik
Nov 2023 Carolin Gehr joins as a lab manager, and Livia has a big smile on her face.
Oct 2023 The coordination project of our DFG-funded SPP2411 on LOOPs kicks off as the wonderful Fauve de Arnal joins the lab.
Zhengjie Yang, Atri Ghosh, and Anurupa Karmakar join the lab to work on statistical learning and
are already asking lots of critical questions.
Sept 2023 Chi, Hugo and Alexandra's paper accepted in Current Research in Neurobiology.
The inferior colliculus does statistical learning. Plasticity upon unsupervised exposure to predictable, but not unpredictable, context-sound associations leads to sharper spectral representation.
June 2023 Our KITP program on statistical learning begins in the beautiful UCSB campus!
May 2023 Chi's behavioural study is published in iScience
May 2023 Irene Onorato joins the lab as postdoc to work in cortico-subcortical loops, as part of the Einstein Foundation grant with David McAlpine
April 2023 Ahmed Alramly joins the lab as a BCCN intern
March 2023 David McAlpine and I publish a commentary about 'Listening loops and the adapting auditory brain' in FiNS
Nov 2022 Xing Xiao joins the lab as postdoc to work in cortico-hippocampal interactions during memory consolidation, as part of the SFB1315
Oct 2022 Two new preprints uploaded. From very different perspectives, both find evidence for long lasting effects of neutral exposure to predictable sounds in auditory responses with consequences on subsequent learning.
Chen C, Ertman A, de Hoz L. 2022. Coding of unsupervised predictable sound-context associations in the auditory midbrain. BioRxiv.
https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.06.511202
de Hoz L, Barniv D, Nelken I. 2022. Prior unsupervised experience leads to long lasting effects in sensory gating during discrimination learning. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.30.510296
Sept 2022 Poppy Barsby and Alexandra Ertman submit their master theses after a very engaged period in which they worked very hard and produced beautiful work. Congratulations!
June 2022 Berlin LOOPs conference!!! finally https://www.brainloops.de/loops-berlin-conference
April 2022. Malinda Tantirigama joins the lab as Einstein post-doc to work together with David McAlpine (Macquarie U, Sidney) on a very exciting project.
April 2022 Poppy Barsby and Alexandra Ertman join the lab as master students. But they are familiar faces here since they have been around for a while doing wonderful work!
March 2022. Our DFG Priority Programme "LOOPS: cortico-subcortical interactions for adaptive cognition" has been granted.
More on the coming public call soon!
https://www.dfg.de/en/service/press/press_releases/2022/press_release_no_05/index.html
MORE INFO https://www.brainloops.de/spp2411
March 2022. Philipp's paper is accepted in Scientific Reports.
van Kronenberg P, Milinski L, Kruschke Z, de Hoz L (2021) Sound disrupts sleep-associated brain oscillations in rodents according to its meaning.
Sept 2021. Philipp's and Chi's preprints uploaded within 3 minutes from each other!
Chen C, Trinh F, Harper N, de Hoz L (2021) Natural sound characteristics explain perceptual categorization. BioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.29.462467
van Kronenberg P, Milinski L, Kruschke Z, de Hoz L (2021) Sound disrupts sleep-associated brain oscillations in rodents according to its meaning. BioRxiv.
https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.29.462343
July 2021. Our KITP workshop on statistical learning is accepted and online. It will take place June 12th to July 21st 2023 in UCSD, California
https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/brainlearn23
October 2020. Sharlen's work is published in Nature Communications
Oligodendrocytes optimize the reliability of neuronal coding
