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This paper changed my life: ‘A massively parallel architecture for a self-organizing neural pattern recognition machine,’ by Carpenter and Grossberg This paper taught me that we can use mathematical modeling to understand how neural networks are organized—and led me to a doctoral program in the department led by its authors.

In the latest “This paper changed my life,” Luiz Pessoa @pessoabrain.bsky.social discusses the paper that taught him that mathematical modeling can be used to understand how neural networks are organized.

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🧠 Competitive PhD funding is available for neuroscience projects in the Parisian region. Consider your options 👇

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@c-brains.bsky.social

1/ Our paper "A large-scale, gamified online assessment of first impressions: The Who Knows project" has just been accepted at Behavior Research Methods! 🎉
Check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Special credit to Richard Rau for envisioning & spearheading this innovative project & app!

How does the perception of our bodily self arise in our experience, and to what extent do we process body ownership information unconsciously? In a new study (preprint), we found body ownership information processing cannot occur without awareness. 0/14👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Bye Eleanor, thanks for the science the discussions...

For all women in science Eleanor Maguire should be an inspiration. Unlike Rosalind Franklin, her contribution was fully appreciated during her lifetime. So it is fitting that in 2008 she was awarded the Rosalind Franklin medal by the Royal Society. #neuroscience #psychology

I hope you guys have fun. I'm sad to miss it. Congrats again.

New paper from the Lab led by @evanlhealey.bsky.social in collaboration with coculab Argentina where we track brain dynamics as DMT psychedelic experiences unfolds. We show diverse and complex brain signatures intimately related to intensity, anxiety, temporarily, imagery, bliss.

Are you based in London? We are recruiting participants for our study. We need to test 400 people so would appreciate sharing. Thank you!

High-speed Paris-Berlin daily train service debuts The route is the first directly linking the two capitals' city centres.

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris

There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.

And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight

www.euronews.com/travel/2024/...

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Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science at the School of Communication and Culture - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at School of Communication and Culture - Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics, Dept. of, Aarhus University

📣 Vacancy for Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science. Deadline January 6: international.au.dk/about/profil...

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The unbearable slowness of being: Humans still clock in at just 10 bits/s. Even after peer review :) Share link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kHVa3BtfH.... ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234

It looks even better once it's typeset for Imaging #Neuroscience 😎

Come take your single trial #ERP : It only costs you an #EEG or #MEG dataset, a few assumptions and a reaction time per trial (and a bit of RAM to be honest)

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Paranoid and teleological thinking give rise to distinct social hallucinations in vision - Communications Psychology When asked to judge if a chase was present in a visual display of moving discs, people with higher paranoia and teleological thinking were more likely to perceive a chase in its absence. They were als...

Out today: we discovered a new class of social hallucination - perception of chasing with high confidence. It is elevated in people who are paranoid and people who perceive meaning in the universe www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I like this one in some aspects

‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...

Worth a read for those outside HE to get a flavour of the mess that ChatGPT etc are causing the whole sector www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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50 years ago Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch propelled the term #workingmemory into the psychological lexicon, with a vision that still resonates today!
This editorial with Mark Hurlstone, @amyatkinson.bsky.social , Satoru Saito and Robert Logie, reflects on that remarkable contribution in 1974.

I don't think so, I feel we know little to extrapolate this type of decision back to animal models... but worth a discussion

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Finally, the identified processing characteristics also help understand why we lose consciousness when falling asleep, since it shows the dynamics of neural information changes differs between states.

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Take homes:
-amplitude of ERPs, or they differences, is not a valid indicator of information processing in the brain
-co-I analyses yielded that especially redundant information extended over greater latencies during sleep compared to wakefulness
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10/n This change in stim processing is reflected in the loss of consciousness during sleep.

In other words, the lower consciousness levels during sleep may be explained as informationally weaker and poor states regarding their external stimuli processing capabilities.

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9/n So, using co-I analyses we show, that the deeper the NREM sleep, the more redundant the processing became, with REM sleep being similar to N1.

Deeper sleep was associated with less differentiated processing: the brain simply processed “more of the same information”.

8/n (before discussion) if you want to understand better the implementation of the information theory framework for neural/cognition check this led by @canalesjohnson

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We found that Mutual information decreases with sleep stage and co-information redundancy increases. While the amplitude differences in the ERPs tended to increase as a function of sleep depth (REM similar to N1), the effect sizes tend to decrease when computed with MI.

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Then we found that temporal generalisation pattern generalise from N2 to N3 but not from awake to sleep stages, they don't tell us about the information flavour and hence lack interpretability.

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We found a reliable local mismatch effect during wakefulness and all sleep stages (i.e., N1, N2, N3, REM) with the waveform substantially changing from wakefulness to sleep. Different from an earlier one from Strauss et al www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... where there was little MMN in MEG.