Did rats invent The vOICe? Left–right-alternating theta sweeps in entorhinal–hippocampal maps of space https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08527-1 via @WiringtheBrain; only the alternating sweep direction is not the best choice for maximum latency. #neuroscience

And we need to embrace the likely possibility that brains are more than connectivity patterns and their weightings. That is the start, not the end.
Accepting “the bitter lesson” and embracing the brain’s complexity
https://www.thetransmitter.org/neuroai/accepting-the-bitter-lesson-and-embracing-the-brains-complexity/
#neuroscience

New in our digital #collection:

Handbook of #children and screens: #DigitalMedia, development, and well-being from birth through adolescence

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69362-5

This #OpenAccess handbook synthesizes the current #research about the impacts of digital #media on children across development.

3 open PhD positions in Simon Sprecher's lab in Switzerland:

"We are looking for highly motivated PhD candidates with interest in neuroscience joining our research group at the Department of Biology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.

"Our laboratory aims to identify universal features of how the nervous system functions. Particularly we are interested in the genetic, molecular, and cellular mechanisms of the how memories are formed and forgotten in health and disease. We study neuronal circuits, their neural and cellular properties properties as well as the molecular and genetic pathways that achieve these distinct cognitive functions in the brain."

https://www.sprecherlab.com/

Visually-evoked activity and variable modulation of auditory responses in the macaque inferior colliculus https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jn.00529.2024 #multisensory #crossmodal #neuroscience

Proactive distractor suppression in early visual cortex https://elifesciences.org/articles/101733 "activity in the early visual cortex is suppressed at locations that are frequently occupied by a task-irrelevant but salient item." #neuroscience

Our intelegense seems to be in decline…

https://archive.is/fvKbT

A dynamic bifurcation mechanism explains cortex-wide neural correlates of conscious access https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(25)00143-3 "The connectome defines a unified, all-or-none network in association cortex"; #ignition #neuroscience

(thesis) The past shapes the present: How visual learning guides visual perception and memory https://research-portal.uu.nl/en/publications/the-past-shapes-the-present-how-visual-learning-guides-visual-per #neuroscience

It's 2025 now. What are the possibilities? Source: https://x.com/michelecimi/status/1780626553073758669 #BCI #neuroscience

Why do our first loves feel so intense? Science has answers https://www.byteseu.com/832645/ #Addiction #Anthropology #attachment #dopamine #evolution #hormones #love #memory #neuroscience #oxytocin #Science

(video, 2012) Shinsuke Shimojo: Sensory substitution, and the third kind of qualia https://zkm.de/de/media/videos/shinsuke-shimojo-sensory-substitution-and-the-third-kind-of-qualia #neuroscience #qualia

U.S. BRAIN Initiative set to lose $81 million this year https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/u-s-brain-initiative-set-to-lose-81-million-this-year/?utm_source=x&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20250312-brain-initiative-lose-81-mil-rp "A government spending bill, which was approved today by the House of Representatives and heads next to a Senate vote, allocates 20 percent less funding for the program than last year." #neuroscience

U.S. BRAIN Initiative set to lose $81 million this year

#Neuroscience #neurology #trump #doge

https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/u-s-brain-initiative-set-to-lose-81-million-this-year/

Motor activity in gamma and high gamma bands recorded with a #Stentrode from the human motor cortex in two people with #ALS https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/adbd78 "the Stentrode can detect discriminable signals indicating motor intent"; #Synchron #BCI #NeuroTech #neuroscience

Work on The vOICe vision BCI is unimpeded by Donald Trump or Elon Musk, but could have benefited greatly from US #neuroscience if focused and not decimated by funding cuts https://artificialvision.com/literature.htm Human veridical mental imagery engineering vs AI hallucinations anyone?

It began with a rabbit: Unraveling the mystery of memory.

From @KnowableMag: "Half a century after the discovery of long-term potentiation, we’re still learning how the brain remembers."

https://flip.it/yKrdus