Gave a talk on my recent work at the Junior Theoretical Neuroscientist’s Workshop

organised by Simons Foundation and Flatiron
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Dimitra Maoutsa

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July 12, 2025

I had the honor to give a talk on my recent work at the Junior Theoretical Neuroscientist’s Workshop[ official website ] organised by the Flatiron Institute. Was great to be given the opportunity to get feedback on my work and reconect with some stellar junior theoretical neuroscientists.

The presentation inlcuded both:

1] a first part on identifying necessary changes (and plasticity mechanisms) in the recurrent network dynamics to explain experimenta contextual changes in neuronal responses (which was part of the work I did as my main project at TUM – see here Multiple adaptation mechanisms account for the emergence of prediction error responses in V1 ), and

2] a second part where I explain the observed representational changes in terms of inter-areal interactions (a personal project that I started after I left TUM – see here Contextual reconfiguration of representations ).

First part was work that started using the Calcium imagin behaviour dataset from Alle, and later after I left TUM I changed to the Neuropixels dataset to have responses aslo from PV interneurons, and the latter was based entirely on the Neuropixels dataset that contains also recordings from multiple areas.

And here is the submitted abstract