Kenny Arbuckle

Massive congratulations to everyone - predominantly of course @janice-bulk.bsky.social and @sophiesteculorum.bsky.social

Neuroscience methods - YouTube Nanocourse: Approaches to Study Neural Circuits This course was taught by Anita Autry, Tiago Gonçalves, and Luke Sjulson at Albert Einstein College of Medici...

Neuroscience students asked us to teach a PRACTICAL course on experimental methods, and it is now on YouTube!

Please like and repost to help us get the word out!

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Lecture 1: Signals and data acquisition
Focusing on hardware, digital/analog I/O, synchronization
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Breaking the barrier between theorists and experimentalists Many neuroscience students are steeped in an experiment-first style of thinking. Let’s not forget how theory can guide experiments.

Sam Gershman writes beautifully about how theory-free neuroscience prevents the field from reaching its promise. Beautiful and true. Most folks do not test hypotheses. Running a NHST does not a hypothesis make. www.thetransmitter.org/theoretical-...

More Is Different

How relevant is Anderson in www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... when thinking about systems neuroscience research

Challenge: does FMRI have a future (apart from studies of development and ageing)? We want to know HOW the brain works and for that we need millisecond temporal resolution neuropixels, MEG, OPMs. After nearly 30 years of FMRI we know basically WHERE things happen.

Subjective signal strength distinguishes reality from imagination - Nature Communications How humans distinguish perception from mental imagery is not well understood. Here, the authors show that reality judgements are based on the intensity of a mixture of imagined and real signals.

Nature Communications

Subjective signal strength distinguishes reality from imagination

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Lake & Baroni

"Fodor and Pylyshyn famously argued that artificial neural networks ... are ... not viable models of the mind.... Here we [show] that neural networks can achieve human-like systematicity when optimized for their compositional skills."

⚠️ Please repost to spread the word! We have a page on our Resources for Researchers site now ALL about applying to psychology (clinical and non-clinical)/neuro graduate PhD programs! Tips from start-to-finish, example statements! www.plasticityinneurodevelopmentlab.com/resourcesfor...

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Towards a biologically annotated brain connectome
Bazinet, Hansen & Misic 
Nat Rev Neurosci (2023)

... as gene expression, cytoarchitecture, neurotransmitter receptors or intrinsic dynamics — can be readily measured and overlaid on network models.

Every (neuro)biologist should read this indeed, so I'll put it here to save you the clicks.
#neuroskyence #compneuro #PsychSciSky

Enjoyable paper by Krakauer et al on "Neurosci needs behavior: Correcting a reductionist bias" 🧠 #neuroscience

Great quote "Who cares what philosophers say about the differences between psych & neuro or reductionism in general? We are scientists, not philosophers!''

www.cell.com/neuron/pdf/S...

On the recent potential losses in psychology, and if we have too much data and not enough theory: www.experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorr...
a conversation also in neuroscience:
www.researchgate.net/publication/...