Sol Markman
@solkmar.bsky.social
Neuroscience PhD student @ MIT studying information seeking
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I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality.
But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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July 6, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I have always believed that ideas from basic systems neuroscience could eventually help people. But for years that felt more like hope than reality.
But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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But look! This is one of the most personally satisfying papers my lab has produced because we’re getting there. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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First paper deserves a first bluesky post - thank you @marlenecohen.bsky.social and @cxue.bsky.social for your unwavering mentorship throughout this work! Excited to see it finally published, and even more excited to see the ideas carried forward in new science from the Cohen lab!
Now out in Nature Neuroscience: fantastic work by @cxue.bsky.social, Sol Markman et al who discovered a neural reason that performance suffers under cognitive load: “Feature interference underlies a neuronal basis for the behavioral cost of task uncertainty”.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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 19, 2026 at 6:02 AM
First paper deserves a first bluesky post - thank you @marlenecohen.bsky.social and @cxue.bsky.social for your unwavering mentorship throughout this work! Excited to see it finally published, and even more excited to see the ideas carried forward in new science from the Cohen lab!
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Our work recently online in Nature Neuroscience: a neural reason why we err more when juggling tasks nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02430-w 🧵
Switching between tasks for different goals is an important form of cognitive flexibility.
Switching between tasks for different goals is an important form of cognitive flexibility.
September 15, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Our work recently online in Nature Neuroscience: a neural reason why we err more when juggling tasks nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02430-w 🧵
Switching between tasks for different goals is an important form of cognitive flexibility.
Switching between tasks for different goals is an important form of cognitive flexibility.