Peter Kaskan

Thanks for your comments on this Vinny

Dopamine promotes cognitive effort by biasing the benefits versus costs of cognitive work Striatal dopamine increases cognitive effort by amplifying and attenuating the subjective benefits and costs, respectively, of cognitive control.

See the work by @awestbrook.bsky.social

e.g. Dopamine promotes cognitive effort by biasing the benefits versus costs of cognitive work

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

That’s good👍🏽 32 has strong reciprocal connections with ento. I’m sure you’re familiar with the anatomical NHP literature?

I just saw the poster 👍🏽 Interesting they seem to be only (best?) localized in area 32

My first SfN 🤓

Returning to LA for the Human Single Neuron meeting at Caltech and then another @sfn.org in San Diego. Looking forward to old friends and new colleagues!! Hope our flights go through 🛫🧠🧠🧠🛬

Attention to Stimuli of Learned versus Innate Biological Value Relies on Separate Neural Systems - PubMed The neural bases of attention, a set of neural processes that promote behavioral selection, is a subject of intense investigation. In humans, rewarded cues influence attention, even when those cues ar...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36319119/

You should read my paper on the role of the amygdala in attending to naturalistic affective visual stimuli 😁

Going back to the rodent findings (and I haven’t read the paper yet), stimuli have multiple dimensions and uses, so it’s not surprising to find these things represented in many areas, but I don’t think this makes areas totally meaningless

It was said many times before Steve but he’s a good guy ;)

What I meant was that more areas may allow for entirely different computations. Extra dimensions mean you use those circuits differently. I’m saying something may be fundamentally different, beyond the trivial addition of extra real estate

Haha, brain areas are still important! Always consider multiple levels of functional organization… I don’t need to remind you of all those “extra” areas in NHPs and humans 😁 Primates are solving the problems with extra machinery - and creating new spaces - and new problems!

We are going to answer that by ignoring voxels entirely, focusing on human single units 😁

Come learn about amygdala circuits with us this Thursday afternoon at #ohbm2025 in Brisbane @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

The NIH move to restrict animal research is a bad one and not just about health - it's about national security.

More here:
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Would love to chat after I get a chance to read your paper! We are recording units in human insula, amygdala, OFC etc. to study (among other things) mood 😁😀🙂😐😕🙁☹️

What are people using to morph human faces or other visual stimuli?
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