Neurotechnology · Computational Neuroscience · Physics of Learning
Amida Anand
I study how minds learn — from the physics of criticality to the architecture of memory and intelligence.
- Founding the AMIDA Institute
- MRes Neurotechnology, Distinction
- Mentoring ISS experiments
Research
Decoding the learning brain
Work that bridges theoretical physics and neuroscience — from criticality and spin glasses to the allocation of memory.
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Two Criticalities
Applying renormalisation group methods and spin glass theory to model the critical behaviour underlying how biological neural networks learn and consolidate memory.
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Visual Working Memory
How the brain distributes a limited working-memory resource across competing visual items — research internship under Dr Paul Bays.
Writing
Notes & essays
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Memory is not retrieval — it is inference
A short case for treating memory as a dynamical, subjective reconstruction rather than a stored recording read back on demand.
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Why a physicist should care about how brains learn
Criticality, spin glasses, and renormalisation are not metaphors borrowed to sound rigorous — they are the natural language for a learning system.