User profiles for Jorge A. Menendez

Jorge Aurelio Menendez

Research Scientist, Meta Reality Labs
Verified email at meta.com
Cited by 127

Synaptic plasticity as Bayesian inference

L Aitchison, J Jegminat, JA Menendez, JP Pfister… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Learning, especially rapid learning, is critical for survival. However, learning is hard; a large
number of synaptic weights must be set based on noisy, often ambiguous, sensory …

Demineralized perforated bone implants in craniofacial surgery

KE Salyer, E Gendler, JL Menendez… - Journal of …, 1992 - journals.lww.com
Between July 1990 and September 1991, deminer-alized perforated allogeneic bone implants
(Pacific Coast Tissue Bank, Los Angeles, CA) were placed in 72 patients. Because many …

[HTML][HTML] Priority-based transformations of stimulus representation in visual working memory

Q Wan, JA Menendez, BR Postle - PLOS Computational Biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
How does the brain prioritize among the contents of working memory (WM) to appropriately
guide behavior? Previous work, employing inverted encoding modeling (IEM) of …

Problems for the purported cognitive penetration of perceptual color experience and Macpherson's proposed mechanism

…, E Kaplan, JA Menendez… - … of Cognition, Logic …, 2014 - newprairiepress.org
Fiona Macpherson (2012) argues that various experimental results provide strong evidence
in favor of the cognitive penetration of perceptual color experience. Moreover, she proposes …

[HTML][HTML] miRNA dysregulation in the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and the related disorders type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease

AR López-Pastor, J Infante-Menéndez… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
According to the World Health Organization, the continuing surge in obesity pandemic creates
a substantial increase in incidences of metabolic disorders, such as non-alcoholic fatty …

Neutrosophic K-means for the analysis of earthquake data in Ecuador

…, JJ Domínguez Menéndez… - … Sets and Systems, 2021 - digitalrepository.unm.edu
The occurrence of earthquakes may have catastrophic and devastating consequences for
the inhabitants of the place where they occur. Some regions are characterized by the high …

Increased let‐7d‐5p in non‐alcoholic fatty liver promotes insulin resistance and is a potential blood biomarker for diagnosis

J Infante‐Menéndez, AR López‐Pastor… - Liver …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Aims The molecular mechanisms driving non‐alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD)
are poorly understood; however, microRNAs might play a key role in these …

[HTML][HTML] Implication of miR-155-5p and miR-143-3p in the vascular insulin resistance and instability of human and experimental atherosclerotic plaque

…, AR López-Pastor, J Infante-Menéndez… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
(1) Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the main cause of death in developed
countries, being atherosclerosis, a recurring process underlying their apparition. MicroRNAs …

Irksome: Automating Runge–Kutta time-stepping for finite element methods

…, RC Kirby, J Marchena-Menendez - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
While implicit Runge–Kutta (RK) methods possess high order accuracy and important
stability properties, implementation difficulties and the high expense of solving the coupled …

[HTML][HTML] The interplay between oxidative stress and miRNAs in obesity-associated hepatic and vascular complications

J Infante-Menéndez, AR López-Pastor… - Antioxidants, 2020 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, the obesity pandemic is one of the most relevant health issues worldwide. This
condition is tightly related to comorbidities such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) …