Yuxiu Shao

Relating local connectivity and global dynamics in recurrent excitatory-inhibitory networks

The paper develops a method to map local connectivity statistics onto global low-rank connectivity structures in excitatory-inhibitory networks, showing how local connectivity shapes global dynamics.

Ecologically pre-trained RNNs explain suboptimal animal decisions

The paper shows that pre-trained RNNs in ecological tasks mimic rats' suboptimal decision-making in 2AFC tasks by gating across-trial evidence after errors.

Dimensional Reduction of Emergent Spatiotemporal Cortical Dynamics via a Maximum Entropy Moment Closure

The paper applies a coarse-graining framework to model visual cortical dynamics using reduced-dimensional spatially-coupled ODEs, capturing a range of spatiotemporal neural activities without introducing new parameters.

A Mechanism for Synaptic Copy between Neural Circuits

The paper presents a synaptic transfer mechanism that explains memory consolidation through nested oscillations in neural circuits.