New research out investigating the development of aperiodic activity in the human brain using a large (>100) iEEG dataset, spearheaded by Zach Cross and Lisa Johnson from Northwestern University.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02270-x
Up now, Simon Laughlin
https://royalsociety.org/people/simon-laughlin-11790/
starting off his presentation on how the "wetware computer" of life - neuronal circuits, processes information.
So far, huge emphasis on external input. Completely missing mentions of spontaneously or endogenously active neurons until now.
Will use this to adjust my presentation tomorrow 😆
Giorgio Vallortigara
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Vallortigara
Kicking off our CogEvo workshop
https://event.unitn.it/cogevo/
in beautifully alpine Rovereto, Italy
🧠💻 A team from the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC, cimcyc.bsky.social) published a #programming guide aimed at students in #psychology and #cognitive #neuroscience. This evolving set of #tutorials offers a curated collection of conceptual reflections, practical examples, and methodological recommendations. The material is available in #Python, #RStats, and #MATLAB.
🌍 https://wobc.github.io/programming_book/
#CognitiveScience #OpenScience
Next was "How Emotions are Made" by Lisa Barrett. This is best thought of two books - the first, up to chapter 8, is a revelatory look at the category error we've made around understanding emotions, revealing through a wide variety of experiments and research how emotions are constructed in real time as an act of categorization - they don't "exist" anywhere in the body. The less said about the rest the better
Full review: https://bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/review/7934770/s/an-uneven-mostly-scientific-investigation#anchor-7934770 (4/5) #neuroscience #psychology
How can we test theories in neuroscience? Take a variable predicted to be important by the theory. It could fail to be observed because it's represented in some nonlinear, even distributed way. Or it could be observed but not be causal because the network is a reservoir. How can we deal with this?
Increasingly feel like this isn't a theoretical problem but a very practical one that comes up all the time. I'd be interested if anyone has seen anything practical that addresses this.
100 years of #quantummechanics this year! Werner Heisenberg introduced fundamental uncertainty into physics and demolished Newtons clockwork.
Few people know that Werner Heisenberg's youngest son Martin spent his career introducing uncertainty into #neuroscience studying #drosophila fruit flies.
His experiments can tell us a lot about how human brains work. I think we ought to embrace the uncertainty!
Rather than “turtles all the way down”, our universe may be better described by “uncertainty all the way up”.
Rather than “turtles all the way down”, our universe may be better described by “uncertainty all the way up”.
Hello #Biology and #Neuroscience Mastodon, does anyone has recent successful case for host MCSA postdoc fellowship?
https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/postdoctoral-fellowships
if you do, would you be happy to share any parts of application? if so, please PM or email me to kc280@leicester.ac.uk
many thanks
#academicchatter#PhD #postdoc#MCSA#UK
Oh boy, brain to text competition 2025
Position available: Post Doctoral Research Associate in Whole Organism Neuroscience – lab of Iris Hardege, University of Cambridge, UK.
Deadline for application: August 3rd, 2025.
"This BBSRC-funded project aims to understand the interplay between excitatory and inhibitory metabotropic and ionotropic dopamine receptors and how they contribute to the regulation of complex behaviours."
My presentation on the #neuroscience of decision-making and #freewill in Vienna this past month:
First was an intriguing talk by @eglassman on using human cognition theories to design helpful AI-augmented interfaces at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyK2pwukNwg (2/5) #HCI#AI
Next was a thought-provoking discussion with Xiao-Jing Wang on the past, present, and future of neuroscience on the Brain Inspired podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO8Mvqj1TnI (3/5) #neuroscience
"Rarely categorical, always high-dimensional: how the neural code changes along the cortical hierarchy", Posani et al. 2025
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.15.623878v4
"we systematically analyzed how cortical neurons encode cognitive, sensory, and movement variables across 43 cortical regions during a complex task (14,000+ units from the International Brain Laboratory public Brainwide Map data set) and studied how these properties change across the sensory-cognitive cortical hierarchy"
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