CATNIP Lab is a computational and statistical neuroscience group. Our goal is to obtain an effective systems-level description of relevant neural dynamics in the context of cognitive functions and dysfunctions. To arrive at a model of neural computation tightly tied to biology and experimental observations, we work closely with experimental and clinical collaborators. We develop probabilistic methods for analyzing spatiotemporal neural and non-neural time series to infer neural dynamics models. To facilitate the scientific inference process, we develop real-time machine learning and control methods and design next-generation experiments.
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Recent News
Announcement
Integrative neurocybernetic modeling in the era of large-scale neuroscience
Our Perspective on the cybernetic future of large-scale model-centric integrative neuroscience is now on arXiv. Predictive accuracy is not understanding: a Transformer-style foundation model that captures neural time series at...
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COSYNE 2026
COSYNE 2026 is in Lisbon this year (March 12–15 main meeting, March 16–17 workshops in Cascais). #cosyne2026
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Hiring
Postdoc Position Open!
The Neural Dynamics (CATNIP) Lab, led by Memming Park at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal, is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to extract organizing principles of neural...
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Announcement
Universal approximation for dynamical systems
We have a new exciting line of work showing that the typical guarantees for univeral approximation for neural networks do not hold for recurrent systems in general. Abel’s new work...
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