Publications - MIT Yang Tan Collective

How biological synapses self-assemble gradient learning

PNAS October 9, 2026 Qianli Liao, Liu Ziyin, Yulu Gan, Brian Cheung, Mark T. Harnett, and Tomaso Poggio

Modality-specific reactive and predictive responses in the human superior colliculus

Nature Neuroscience October 7, 2026 Danlei Chen, Maya Barton-Zuckerman, Zoe Kross, Philip A. Kragel, Paul W. Savoca, Lawrence L. Wald, Marta Bianciardi, Tor D. Wager, Ji-Kyung Choi, Jiahe Zhang, Karen S. Quigley, Ajay B. Satpute, Lisa Feldman Barrett & Jordan E. Theriault-Brown

Pooled combinatorial screening identifies transcription factor sets that drive hematopoietic progenitor-like cell fate

Cell Systems September 16, 2026 James A. Briggs, Janghwan Cho, Daniel Strebinger, Julia Joung,Tatum W. Braun, Rhiannon K. Macrae, Hojun Li, Feng Zhang

Mutation E300 recommended by protein language models gives ChrimsonR amplified photocurrent response

Scientific Reports September 8, 2026 Samuel Ehrlich, Alexandra D. VandeLoo, Benjamin Magondu, Athena Chien, Sapna Sinha, Edward S. Boyden & Craig R. Forest

Modular Connectivity in Neural Networks Emerges from Poisson Noise-Motivated Regularization and Promotes Robustness and Compositional Generalization

PRX Life September 1, 2026 Daoyuan Qian, Qiyao Liang, and Ila Fiete

The Free Energy Principle and Free Markets

MDPI August 25, 2026 Karl Friston, Johan Medrano, and Tim Verbelen

Voltage imaging of neurons distributed across entire brains of larval zebrafish

Nature Methods August 14, 2026 Zeguan Wang, Jie Zhang, Panagiotis Symvoulidis, Wei Guo, Davy Deng, Adam Amsterdam, Lige Zhang, Takato Honda, Steven Roche, Matthew A. Wilson & Edward S. Boyden

Large Language Model Few-Shot Learning for Predicting Individual Treatment Response to Smartphone-Based Mindfulness in Autistic Adults With Anxiety: Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial

JMIR AI July 23, 2026 Ahn G, Li CE, Liang A, Choi W, Ahn S, Roberts C, Gabrieli JDE

Projecting the Reduction of the Levelized Cost of Green Hydrogen via Stack-Level & System-Level Innovation

ECS Meeting Abstracts July 16, 2026 Samuel Heath, Vinn Nguyen, Benjamin Zeng, Arisa Kita and Amos G. Winter

Evidence from formal logical reasoning reveals that the language of thought is not natural language

PNAS July 6, 2026 Hope Kean, Alexander Fung, Paris Jaggers, and Evelina Fedorenko

The extended language network: Language-responsive brain areas whose contributions to language remain to be discovered

JNeurosci June 29, 2026 Agata Wolna, Aaron Wright, Colton Casto, Samuel Hutchinson, Benjamin Lipkin and Evelina Fedorenko

Side-Chain-Based Cross-Linking of Amorphous Iono-Electronic Conductive Polymers for Thermo-Chemical Stability in Electrochemical Devices

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces June 18, 2026 Heejung Roh, Simone Bagatella, Shuwen Yue, Aditi Seshadri, Changhwan Oh, Camille E. Cunin, Marco Cavallaro, Marinella Levi, Heather J. Kulik, Aristide Gumyusenge*