Kian
@kiantd.bsky.social
Cog psych PhD student, professionally nosy about the brain.
Studying the mind, badly playing Chopin.
Generalist by nature, focused by force.
Studying the mind, badly playing Chopin.
Generalist by nature, focused by force.
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Most cortical neurons exhibit mixed selectivity rather than specializing in a single function. Our limited ability to juggle tasks may therefore reflect interference among overlapping neural representations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty - Nature Neuroscience
Using a combined approach of monkey electrophysiology, artificial neural networks and human psychophysics, Xue et al. show that neuronal interference from irrelevant information underlies behavioral e...
www.nature.com
September 14, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Most cortical neurons exhibit mixed selectivity rather than specializing in a single function. Our limited ability to juggle tasks may therefore reflect interference among overlapping neural representations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#neuroscience
Today I'll say it plainly: life as an Iranian is hardship on another level.
May our grief one day blossom into love for humanity.
It isn't only that our own government rules by force, inflicting so much pain on its people — others have started to as well.
1/9
May our grief one day blossom into love for humanity.
It isn't only that our own government rules by force, inflicting so much pain on its people — others have started to as well.
1/9
September 8, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Today I'll say it plainly: life as an Iranian is hardship on another level.
May our grief one day blossom into love for humanity.
It isn't only that our own government rules by force, inflicting so much pain on its people — others have started to as well.
1/9
May our grief one day blossom into love for humanity.
It isn't only that our own government rules by force, inflicting so much pain on its people — others have started to as well.
1/9
Got called "crazy and boring enough for Bluesky" at family dinner for explaining how we're the god particle in its highest form, the universe experiencing itself. So. Here I am. 👋🏼
August 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Got called "crazy and boring enough for Bluesky" at family dinner for explaining how we're the god particle in its highest form, the universe experiencing itself. So. Here I am. 👋🏼