🙏 It's official: I got a professorship at the
@UMontreal
and will start my own lab at
@CR_CHUSJ
in September: the Precision Psychiatry and Social Physiology team
@ppsp_team
/ !!!
Brain Waves Synchronize when People Interact Nice piece! Just sad to not be cited after painfully demonstrating exactly that >10 years ago and then worked continuously on this very specific topics
@LydiaDenworth
cf. + other papers…
4 years ago, I resigned from a permanent research position to move with my wife overseas and try building a family, a lab, a new life… Yesterday, I secured the last piece for tenure —My J2 research program ranked
#1
in Quebec. It was work but also a lot of help. Huge gratitude🙏
"Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems"
—A highly recommended course to understand the field's core concepts & methods! Modern challenges range from landing rockets vertically or designing humanoid robots to studying black holes and cognition!
Yet another reason for poster sessions: a year ago, we meet at an
#autism
conference, presenting posters in the same row... now we are getting married ^^!
#NerdUnited
#INSAR2019
💥 Promotion to Associate Professor accepted! 🎉
Big thanks to
@UMontreal
and all my colleagues for their trust and support, to my amazing
@ppsp_team
for their energy, and above all to my partner
@deepernix
— so many things already happened in a year, let's
#KeepCalmAndCarryOn
New paper in
@NeuroImage_EiC
: "Technologically-Assisted Communication Attenuates Inter-Brain Synchrony"
— Here, we measured brain-to-brain dynamics of mother-child dyads in either face-to-face or video-chat (A la Zoom) interaction
🤗 Introducing... "Anouk" (Mishchenko & Dumas, 2021) – an embodied natural intelligence with strong maximization of cuteness! – Both mother and baby are doing well. Father is happier than ever before 🥰
🤗 New paper in
#PNAS
: "Brain-to-brain coupling during handholding is associated with pain reduction" — Grateful to had the chance to collaborate on
#hyperscanning
EEG data during this interesting phenomenon of social touch analgesia !
"Eye-contact affects synchronization between brains more than within brains, demonstrating that eye-contact is an inherently social signal."
—Social synchronization of brain activity increases during eye-contact Congrats to
@caroluft
,
@Ioanna_Zioga_
& al!
End-to-End Deep Image Reconstruction From Human Brain Activity
fMRI + GAN = 🖤 ... the generalisation across subjects is encouraging, espcially for the letters! I wonder how it works with mental imagery 🤔
Boom!💥 Just received unanimous support of my faculty committee to become Associate Professor 🍾 Still need to wait for April to get the final results… and since I am in medicine, won’t equate tenure… but still, after only a year here, this demonstrates a nice proof of trust 😊
📝New paper: Human Attachments Shape Interbrain Synchrony — Collab w/
👏Kudos to Amir for his first 1st-author paper!
ℹ️He studied modulation of neural & behavioral synchrony in couples, best friends, and strangers
#Hyperscanning
🚨New paper: From inter-brain connectivity to inter-personal psychiatry
— Thrilled to be featured in
@WPA_Psychiatry
, the most read journal in the field
It’s gratefully dedicated to all the gatekeepers who said I had no clinical knowledge nor relevance!
Today, I officially switch to Associate Professor! The awkward part is that it didn’t come with tenure nor salary raise… But it’s stil a step & I have lot of gratitude for all who have supported, guided & helped me so far on this path... colleagues, students, friends & family 🙏
🇨🇦 I'm proud to announce that I've been selected as one of The Peak's 2024 Emerging Leaders! It's an honour to share this accomplishment alongside many inspiring Canadian leaders under 40 who are shaping the future. 🍁
Check out the complete list here:
“Brain and body are more intertwined than we knew. […] For neuroscientists, it’s time to look beyond the brain.”
It has been a while that it was the time… 🙄 “The Embodied Mind” by Francisco J. Varela, Eleanor Rosch and
@EvantThompson
is >30 years old!!
👉Finally, after >6yrs of work, it's published! 🍾
#NeverGiveUp
🤖🔄🧠 Combining hd-EEG and real-time bio-inspired avatar, we reveal how Fronto-Parietal Network links Sensorimotor Coordination (system1) and Representational (system2) Social Cognition
#rTPJ
Kudos
@Mahtaao
for her first paper! This survey is the fruit of many hours of dedicated work & stimulating discussion. I enjoyed our brainstormings to map this uncharted territory at the crossroad of machine learning, dynamical systems, & neuroscience. Feedback are much welcome!
Generative Models of Brain Dynamics – A
#review
🎁 After a year of work, our
#Xmas
present is freshly out: 🎄
Get a bird's eye view with the synthesis of >200 refs at the intersection of
#ML
,
#DynamicalSystems
, and
#Neuroscience
!
A thread…🧵 (1/5)
"Our work lays the foundation for a general theory of critical phenomena in systems whose dynamics is not governed by an optimization principle."
— Non-reciprocal phase transitions |
@Nature
#KuramotoStrikesBack
cc
@stevenstrogatz
"Our model emphasizes 3 complementary mechanisms for sensorimotor, cognitive, and conscious levels of information processing"
—This preprint is the
#SlowScience
fruit of >6 years of weekly meetings with JP Changeux about the Synaptic Epigenesis of the Global Neuronal Workspace
Metastable Brain Waves — "We find a rich array of 3D wave patterns, including traveling waves, spiral waves, sources, and sinks." cc
@Mengsen
@ETognoli
@Scott_Kelso
Deeply honored to be named a CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar, and on top in the Brain, Mind & Consciousness program 🧠
So grateful to
@CIFAR_News
, my mentors, colleagues, & team members 🙏 I am so excited to join a community with such humanistic, visionary, & collaborative values✨
“we reformulate the 2017 results using two-parameter logistic regression (that is, one neuron) and obtain the same performance as that of the 13,451-parameter DNN” 😆😂
#AIhype
"Spontaneous dyadic behaviour predicts the emergence of interpersonal neural synchrony" by
@ateshkoul
et al.
— Nice integration of brain & behavioral dyadic-recordings, adding on social dynamical phenomena that cannot be probed with solo-recording design!
Got my first grant as an Assistant Professor! Thanks
@FRQS1
for your trust in my research program "Social Computational Psychiatry"🙏 Also deeply grateful for the support of
@CR_CHUSJ
/
@Med_UMontreal
/
@IVADO_Qc
— Now all I need is my work permit to settle in Canada...
#Covid19
I am grateful to
@BrainCanada
&
@AzrieliFdn
for nominating me as a future leader in Canadian Brain Research! Their funding support will help develop foundational models & normative models of brain dynamics, leveraging one of the largest datasets of high-density EEG in the world🙏
Statistically significant ≠ Clinically significant
— New paper with
@Eva_Loth
&
@EUAims
colleagues demonstrating how the focus on group-mean differences can be misleading for biomarker discovery and lead to wrong generalization & stigmatisation in autism
Proud to be among the 6 winners of the real-world neurotechnology research grant (2.3% acceptance, 236 teams) with the project "Practicing plasticity: How collective rituals promote neurocognitive flexibility" in collaboration with
@McGillU
and
@Stanford
!
W00t — Our paper combining dynamical systems & deep learning to decipher brain activity makes the cover of Neural Computation — Kudos again
@GAbrevaya
for his 1st paper!
Original paper thread:
Next stop:
#SciML
in
@JuliaLanguage
Cortico-Cerebellar Neurodynamics during Social Interaction in
#Autism
— Last preprint of 2022 with high temporal/spatial resolution of neural dynamics during social interaction combining real-time human-avatar interaction, HD-EEG & sources reconstruction!
🧬🐒🧠>5yrs of work finally out in
@GenomeResearch
:
"Systematic detection of brain protein-coding genes under positive selection during primate evolution and their roles in cognition"
📝
⚙️Website+Data
🧶summarized in the thread👇
Deep neural networks excel at finding hierarchical representations that solve complex tasks over large datasets.
How can we humans understand these learned representations?
Introducing: (Artificial) Network Dissection!
@PNASNews
✊"Dark Control" is finally out!
🤓W/
@dohmatobelvis
&
@danilobzdok
, we propose a process model of the DMN
🤝Our formal perspective (RL/POMDP) accommodates: predictive coding, semantic associations & sentinel DMN roles
👌Bonus: some
@uk_biobank
results…
Well arrived in Canada 🇨🇦 ! — In quarantine with very limited Internet access but everything is alright 👍 Great occasion to learn being a bit more offline and to discover our new peaceful home 🏡📚☕️
I just received access to the most powerful computer on the planet!!! Frontier is the world's first public exascale computer, i.e. >10^18 64-bit operations per second. Thanks,
@IrinaRish
for enabling this opportunity to literally work at the "Frontier" of computing.
Wanna do some hyper-neurofeedback?
— New paper w/
@SuzanneDikker
& her dream team: "Hybrid Harmony: A Multi-Person
#Neurofeedback
Application for Interpersonal Synchrony"
📰 Paper:
💻 Code:
Honored to join as faculty
@McGillU
’s “Culture, Mind, and Brain” program where was pioneered transcultural psychiatry — I will develop there Social-Cultural Computational Psychiatry combining multi-scale modeling and ecosocial approaches to mental health
🔀 The Many Faces of Phase Transitions
A 2h workshop at the 2nd
@Mila_Quebec
's Neural Scaling Laws conference where I tried to introduce/discuss phase transitions from physics & neuroscience to machine learning!
🎦 Video
⏹ Slides
🖐 Following the recent buzz on
@FacebookAI
MRI Super-resolution algorithm, here is a clear explanation of why we should remain careful at the clinical level!
😑 I let you expand the reasoning to other sensational claims in
#AI
for medicine…
cc
@Abebab
I dedicate this citation in
@ScienceMagazine
of my PhD paper in
@PLOSONE
2010, to all the gate keepers, editors & reviewers, who rejected it 9 times and the various committees saying it was a cheap
#openaccess
journal (in EEG on top :D), so not an interesting result and message!
“what if embedding the brain in a group changed how it works? And even more boldly, what if the laws of wisdom were to be found in how brains interact in a group, rather than in how neurons interact in a single brain?”
— Multi-brain neuroscience featured x3 in
@ScienceMagazine
!
Yoshua Bengio reveals our new interdisciplinary take on the hard problem of
#consciousness
and the question of qualia — Check the
#preprint
: « Sources of Richness and Ineffability for Phenomenally Conscious States » |
#SynAGI
@RealAAAI
🚨
#JobAlert
: 4 assistant professor positions are opening at the psychology department of the
@UMontreal
!
- cognitive neuroscience & ai
- clinical psychology of addiction
- work and organizational psychology
- social psychology and bigdata
#RT
#ComeJoinUs
Very excited and honored to join soon
@MILAMontreal
- Quebec
#AI
Institute as an associate academic member! I will focus on developing Social
#NeuroAI
, Dynamical Systems Theory for
#ML
, and applications in Digital Medicine & Computational Psychiatry
“what if embedding the brain in a group changed how it works? And even more boldly, what if the laws of wisdom were to be found in how brains interact in a group, rather than in how neurons interact in a single brain?”
— Multi-brain neuroscience featured x3 in
@ScienceMagazine
!
1st day at our house, started eating fresh raspberries from the garden, playing balloon with our 1yo daughter, ended with a wine & cheese with my lovely partner chatting about life and meaning. Seems I may be spend even less time on social media and more in this garden now… 🏡🌱
Generative Models of Brain Dynamics – A
#review
🎁 After a year of work, our
#Xmas
present is freshly out: 🎄
Get a bird's eye view with the synthesis of >200 refs at the intersection of
#ML
,
#DynamicalSystems
, and
#Neuroscience
!
A thread…🧵 (1/5)
"an essay about [György Buzsáki's] problems with ill-defined scientific terms and question whether the dominant framework in neuroscience is on the right track" cc
@Neuro_Skeptic
@EikoFried
@danilobzdok
🧠〰️🗺Original spatio-temporal maps (Antoine Rémond, 1962)
... writing the history section of our future
#EEG
primer w/
@caimadja
. Want to release an
#openaccess
high-resolution copy for all my nerd friends ;) Does anyone know how to easily scan large posters (1.5x1.5m)?
So grateful and happy to had the opportunity to meet one of my scientific heroes: Sensei Ichiro Tsuda, pioneering mind of dynamical systems theory, father of chaos itinerancy and attractor ruins
#FanBoyMoment
"interacting groups generate more solutions more rapidly & explore the solution space more broadly than independent problem solvers, finding higher-quality solutions than all but the highest-scoring individuals"
—Task complexity moderates group synergy
Interview in
@Nature
on how we are developing precision child psychiatry at
@CR_CHUSJ
/
@UMontreal
. My colleagues Dr.Conrod speaks on imaging,
@JacquemontSeb
on genetics and I discuss
@ppsp_team
work on computational psychiatry & hyperscanning for the clinic
After 2 years, my father was finally able to visit us, and meet his granddaughter for the first time! So much love and happiness 🥰 …and also a ton of fantastic cheese freshly imported from France 😜🧀
We need “humane cities” more than “smart cities”. Technology should enable humane goal, not replace them for the sake of “optimization” in the sense of reducing cost or facilitating the life of privileged “happy few”. Increasingly wonder how to apply this mindset to medicine…🤔
Seriously
#BeNice
, some reviewers don't realize how toxic they are... To show how far gatekeeping can go, unburied in our lab meeting today this 3rd round of review at
@PLOSCompBiol
for my 2nd PhD paper — Ended up also in
@PLOSONE
because... I let you read
I dedicate this citation in
@ScienceMagazine
of my PhD paper in
@PLOSONE
2010, to all the gate keepers, editors & reviewers, who rejected it 9 times and the various committees saying it was a cheap
#openaccess
journal (in EEG on top :D), so not an interesting result and message!
Oh, and by fully funded, I really mean it! Covering all university fees and paying a 125% salary compare to normal — that’s how we can fight young scientists precariousness!