Dave Freedman

Join my lab as a Research Assistant! The Freedman Lab at UChicago is looking to hire a full time research assistant to assist in experiments on neural mechanisms of decisions. tinyurl.com/xmpcdyyd @UChicago_Brains #UChicago #FreedmanLab

“Everything, Everywhere, All at Once”: Great movie, not a great theory for how cognition works. Check out my latest review article with Matt Rosen on the topic. tinyurl.com/574ma9nz

FreedmanLab PhD student Matt Rosen’s @PNAS paper is out! We show how oculomotor brain circuits are recruited by cognitive behaviors--and produce small gaze shifts like "poker tells" in the process. Paper here: tinyurl.com/yw48y5tw #Neuroscience #PNAS @UChicago_Brains

Thrilled to share FreedmanLab PhD student Matthew Rosen's @pnas study showing how the same circuits that control gaze also meditate abstract cognition--leading to incidental gaze shifts like "poker tells". #uchicago #pnas Check it out: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

I told you that faces would melt. @djfreedman rips it up with Lizard Brain #sfn2024 #pavlovsdoz

Lizard Brain

SFN 2024! Get ready to ROCK with my new band LIZARD BRAIN, opening for Pavlov's Dogz @ Reggie's Mon 10/7. We are Dave Freedman, Rodrigo Braga, Lucas Pinto, and Ramon Nogueira Manas a heavy metal UChicago-Northwestern collaboration. Doors @ 8, music @ 9. Get ur tix now! #sfn2024

The superior colliculus--more important for cognition than what the textbooks would have you believe. biologicalsciences.uchicago.edu/news/brain-sup… @UChicago_Brains

New FreedmanLab paper shows that the primate superior colliculus is strongly and causally engaged in abstract cognition. shorturl.at/7qB5r #Neuroscience #UChicago @UChicago_Brains

We're hiring faculty! The Department of Neurobiology at UChicago is searching for tenure-track faculty. Researchers in cellular, molecular, developmental and synaptic neuroscience are especially encouraged to apply.  Visit: apply.interfolio.com/153397. EOE/Vet/Disability.

Happy to share that as of this Fall I am taking on the role of Chair of the Department of Neurobiology at The University of Chicago. I'm excited for this new chapter and for the future of Neuroscience at UChicago! #UChicago tinyurl.com/mtvcy3j4

David Freedman with his first paper. You never forget your first. Freedman, D.J., Riesenhuber, M., Poggio, T., and Miller, E.K. (2001) Categorical representation of visual stimuli in the primate prefrontal cortex. Science, 291:312-316. doi.org/10.1126/scienc… #neuroscience

Now that we @UChicago_Brains just hired 2 faculty in Computational Neuroscience we are addicted to it. We will be hiring 2 more faculty this round in Comp Neuro - one in the Department of Neurobiology and one in the Department of Physics. Please apply! apply.interfolio.com/133134

I am glad to co-direct the Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Program at UChicago. Know a postdoc candidate interested in using AI to advance their research in the sciences, including neuroscience? They should apply! Deadline is Nov 1. #UChicago #AI #Neuro rb.gy/hwxbb

Very happy and proud to share the latest theory publication from recent FreedmanLab Ph.D. graduate @wjeffjohnston--Redundant representations are required to disambiguate simultaneously presented complex stimuli. Congrats Jeff! doi.org/10.1371/journa…

Can't believe Sliman Bensmaia is gone. One of my very closest friends, my FuzZz band mate, songwriting partner, and UChicago neuroscience colleague. Like the brother I never had. You had a such a great run, but you had so much left to do. I'll keep playing your songs.

This is work from former FreedmanLab postdoc Yang Zhou, now a faculty member at IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Science at Peking University. Congrats Yang! tinyurl.com/3wn7mccs

FreedmanLab results alert! Turns out area MST is much more cognitive than its traditionally recognized role in visual motion processing. We find that it also encodes the abstract meaning of stimuli during a learned visual motion categorization task. tinyurl.com/2p8rwpcm