MANUEL MOLANO-MAZÓN
I am a neuroscientist with a background in Mathematics, currently working at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. My research focuses on using Recurrent Neural Networks to explore the computational principles underlying decision-making processes.
My latest work, in colaboration with Yuxiu Shao, Robert Yang, Srdjan Ostojic and Jaime de la Rocha, (Molano-Mazón et al. 2023 Current Biology, preprint) shows that by pre-training RNNs on ecologically relevant environments it is possible to recover a suboptimal behavior observed in rats performing a two-alternative forced choice task that presents serial correlations.
I have recently written an opinion piece together with Dr. Robert Yang (Yang and Molano-Mazón 2021 Current Opinion in Neurobiology, preprint).
You can find the links to the papers below! Thanks for visiting!