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Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions Brain rhythms seem central to understanding the neurophysiological basis of human cognition. Yet, despite significant advances, key questions remain unresolved. In this comprehensive position paper, w...

Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions

arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639

Building Intuition for Dynamical Mean-Field Theory: A Simple Model and the Cavity Method Dynamical Mean-Field Theory (DMFT) is a powerful theoretical framework for analyzing systems with many interacting degrees of freedom. This tutorial provides an accessible introduction to DMFT. We beg...

Building Intuition for Dynamical Mean-Field Theory: A Simple Model and the Cavity Method

arxiv.org/abs/2507.16654

‘Backpropagation and the brain’ realized in cortical error neuron microcircuits Neural responses to mismatches between expected and actual stimuli have been widely reported across different species. How does the brain use such error signals for learning? While global error signal...

‘Backpropagation and the brain’ realized in cortical error neuron microcircuits

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How the brain shifts between external and internal attention Nobre and Gresch call for an upgrade of attention research by considering how the brain shifts its focus between contents in the external sensory stream and internal memory representations. They highl...

Neuron

How the brain shifts between external and internal attention

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Frontiers | Thalamus and consciousness: a systematic review on thalamic nuclei associated with consciousness IntroductionConsciousness relies on both cortical and subcortical structures and their feedforward and feedback pathways. Within this framework, the thalamus...

Thalamus and consciousness: a systematic review on thalamic nuclei associated with consciousness

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Frontiers | Consciousness as a Physical Process Caused by the Organization of Energy in the Brain To explain consciousness as a physical process we must acknowledge the role energy plays in the brain. Energetic activity is fundamental to all physical proc...

Consciousness as a Physical Process Caused by the Organization of Energy in the Brain

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Anthropology of Consciousness

Consciousness as an intelligent complex adaptive system: A neuroanthropological perspective

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Feelings Are the Source of Consciousness Abstract. In this view, we address the problem of consciousness, and although we focus on its human presentation, we note that the phenomenon is present in numerous nonhuman species and use findings f...

Neural Computation

Feelings Are the Source of Consciousness

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ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar Processing natural language syntax requires a negotiation between symbolic and subsymbolic representations. Building on the recent representation, operation, structure, encoding (ROSE) neurocomputa...

New paper out today in Cognitive Neuroscience!
Proposing an explicit, causal-mechanistic, falsifiable and empirically grounded neural code for natural language syntax, and its innate basis.

ROSE: A Universal Neural Grammar

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A Dynamical Systems Perspective on the Analysis of Neural Networks In this chapter, we utilize dynamical systems to analyze several aspects of machine learning algorithms. As an expository contribution we demonstrate how to re-formulate a wide variety of challenges f...

A Dynamical Systems Perspective on the Analysis of Neural Networks

arxiv.org/abs/2507.05164

What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes - Nature Neuroscience How does the brain learn to predict rewards? In this issue of Nature Neuroscience, Qian, Burrell et al. show that understanding how dopamine guides learning requires knowledge of how animals interpret...

Nature Neuroscience

What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes

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The Neurobiology of Cognitive Fatigue and Its Influence on Effort-Based Choice Feelings of cognitive fatigue emerge through repeated mental exertion and are ubiquitous in our daily lives. However, there is a limited understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms underlying the ...

Journal of Neuroscience

The Neurobiology of Cognitive Fatigue and Its Influence on Effort-Based Choice

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The interoceptive origin of reinforcement learning Rewards play a crucial role in sculpting all motivated behavior. Traditionally, research on reinforcement learning has centered on how rewards guide learning and decision-making. Here, we examine the ...

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

The interoceptive origin of reinforcement learning

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The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation Emotion generation and emotion regulation are widely seen as functionally distinct. This distinction has inspired efforts to define separable brain bases of each, with emotion generation thought to in...

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation

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Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain - Nature Methods In this Analysis, Liu et al. benchmark more than 200 pairwise statistics for functional brain connectivity in tasks such as hub mapping, distance relationships, structure–function coupling and behavio...

Nature Methods

Benchmarking methods for mapping functional connectivity in the brain

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A beautiful loop: An active inference theory of consciousness

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Human high-order thalamic nuclei gate conscious perception through the thalamofrontal loop Human high-order thalamic nuclei activity is known to closely correlate with conscious states. However, it is not clear how those thalamic nuclei and thalamocortical interactions directly contribute t...

Science

Human high-order thalamic nuclei gate conscious perception through the thalamofrontal loop

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The No Body Problem: Intelligence and Selfhood in Biological and Artificial Systems Do you need a body to be an intelligent system? Clearly not. Artificial systems such as Large Language Models do not have a body and yet they are promptly qualified as intelligent and even conscious. ...

The No Body Problem: Intelligence and Selfhood in Biological and Artificial Systems

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A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results - Nature Communications Here, the authors present the Network Correspondence Toolbox, which enables researchers to examine and report spatial correspondence between their neuroimaging results and widely used brain atlases.

Nature Communications

A network correspondence toolbox for quantitative evaluation of novel neuroimaging results

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Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems - Nature Shared inter-brain neural dynamics, reflecting aspects of social interaction including self and other’s behaviours, arise in GABAergic neurons of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interact...

Nature

Inter-brain neural dynamics in biological and artificial intelligence systems

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Abstract rule learning promotes cognitive flexibility in complex environments across species - Nature Communications Whether neurocomputational mechanisms that speed up human learning in changing environments also exist in other species remains unclear. Here, the authors show that both rats and humans sequentially t...

Nature Communications

Abstract rule learning promotes cognitive flexibility in complex environments across species

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Frontiers | Editorial: The primate's sensorimotor system and its relationship with emotion, cognition, and decision-making In line with this framework, results from Ishida et al. (2024), based on neuronal recordings in monkeys, reveal that regions within the posterior perisylvian...

Editorial: The primate's sensorimotor system and its relationship with emotion, cognition, and decision-making

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Epigenetics and individuality: from concepts to causality across timescales - Nature Reviews Genetics Recent genomic approaches are providing unprecedented opportunity to disentangle how genotype and environment affect organismal traits. The authors review the role of epigenetic variation in mediating...

Nature Reviews Genetics

Epigenetics and individuality: from concepts to causality across timescales

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The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation Emotion generation and emotion regulation are widely seen as functionally distinct. This distinction has inspired efforts to define separable brain bases of each, with emotion generation thought to in...

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

The brain bases of emotion generation and emotion regulation

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A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making Recent research from economics, psychology, cognitive science, computer science, and marketing is increasingly interested in the idea that people face cognitive costs when making decisions. Reviewing ...

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

A timeline of cognitive costs in decision-making

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Role of hypothalamic CRH neurons in regulating the impact of stress on memory and sleep Stress profoundly affects sleep and memory processes. Stress impairs memory consolidation, and similarly, disruptions in sleep compromise memory functions. Yet, the neural circuits underlying stress-i...

Journal of Neuroscience

Role of hypothalamic CRH neurons in regulating the impact of stress on memory and sleep

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Nature Neuroscience

The brain works at more than 10 bits per second

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What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes - Nature Neuroscience How does the brain learn to predict rewards? In this issue of Nature Neuroscience, Qian, Burrell et al. show that understanding how dopamine guides learning requires knowledge of how animals interpret...

Nature Neuroscience

What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes

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Spatial reasoning via recurrent neural dynamics in mouse retrosplenial cortex - Nature Neuroscience Using a spatial reasoning task in mice, the authors show that retrosplenial cortex encodes spatial hypotheses with well-behaved recurrent dynamics, which can combine these hypotheses with incoming inf...

Nature Neuroscience

Spatial reasoning via recurrent neural dynamics in mouse retrosplenial cortex

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A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality Dijkstra et al. show that our brain distinguishes imagination from reality by monitoring how strongly the fusiform gyrus is activated. When imagined and real images produce similar activity, people ca...

Neuron

A neural basis for distinguishing imagination from reality

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