@nancykanwisher.bsky.social Good to see you on Bluesky, How can we get discussions going? Luiz Pessoa is right that there are few threads. .
There is little work on NHPs now. Instead almost all the work is on mice. I can understand that this can tell us about human metabolism. But cognition depends on complex neural circuitry. We need to know what cognitive capacities we share with mice and what capacities are unique to primates or us.
Having just had yet another MRI, I am again struck by what a terrible environment it is for people to think while doing cognitive tasks (on back, noise, stationary etc). OPMs offer a much more comfortable and less noisy environment, and have millisecond temporal resolution.
Trump’s deputy, Stephen Miller, thinks that only Americans (ie white!) should live in America. What a wonderful message for all those scientists working in America who are immigrants and non-white!
I don’t understand why neurophysiologists pay little attention to FMRI because it is a vascular signal. It is just at a macro rather than micro level. But the resolution is similar to the object patches in IT and the patches within prefrontal within which neuronal firing correlates (Constantinidis).
I worry that there is no way of proving that I am not in the blacked out pages of the Epstein files. For all I know the whole British royal household are in there! It is quite absurd that so much is blacked out.
And I’m a big fan of Turing, von Neumann, Shannon, Metcalfe, Hinton, Sejnowski, and all the other algorithmic and computation people. No shade. But data limits still limit understanding of the brain. That’s why the #NIH US BRAIN Init was so important: public investment made new tools.
There’s a lot of talk about vaccines and autism, but what does the science say? This week @pennngg.bsky.social student Nita Rome unpacks the history behind these concerns and how modern studies have debunked this misconception. pennneuroknow.com/2025/11/11/v... #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦🧪
Vaccines and autism: Let’s talk about it
The conversation around autism and vaccines has become an increasingly hot topic of late (to put it mildly), but did you know that this debate began over 25 years ago? Here is a brief overview of t…
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I strongly recommend the new biography of Frances Crick by Professor Matthew. It is important for what it tells us about imagination, risk, persistence, error and boundless curiosity.
Rep. Jeff Van Drew on Republicans' healthcare plan: "The plan is to come up with something better."
doing archival research and happened across this story from 1963 teacher builds lessons around different perspectives, conservative families (backed by john birch society!) object, student *records* teacher in attempt to get her fired sounds familiar! p. 73 here: books.google.com/books?id=Rkk...
#pessoabrain.bsky.social The paper by Rogier Mars and Dick Passingham on A Neuroecological Perspective on Prefrontal Cortex is out. the link is authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l... This allows free downloads till Dec 7th.
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#neuroskyence New paper on 'A neuroecological perspective of prefrontal cortex' by Rogier Mars and Dick Passingham Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
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New paper on 'A neuroecological perspective of prefrontal cortex' by Rogier Mars and Dick Passingham Click on the link below and you have free access before Dec 7th. OH THE GENEROSITY OF ELSEVIER! And they are so poor. authors.elsevier.com/c/1lyf5Y3M3l...
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@vincentcostaphd.bsky.social @dickretired.bsky.social The functional side of it all is already completely explained by showing that we create templates. See also: @hugospiers.bsky.social During shopping we execute the exact same template as the mouse does. www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I wonder how much basic academic science funded by the public underlies this new treatment for Huntington’s disease?
a man sitting at a table with the words it 's a lot on his face
ALT: a man sitting at a table with the words it 's a lot on his face
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#neuroskyence Can someone explain to me: if a huge neural net exposed to a huge corpus of language, and trained to learn the statistics of the next word, can produce excellent grammar, why can’t infants learn in the same way? Of course they are exposed to much less, but they have parental guidance.
#earlmiller.bsky.social It is frequently commented that cells in different areas have similar properties. The reason, of course, is the dense interconnections between areas. But what we need are physiological fingerprints. By this I mean radial plots of the degree of activity on many tasks.
The Allen Institute is working hard at a really tough goal, with impressive results.
allen institute@alleninstitute.org · 11mo agoHappy birthday to us! 🥳 In 2003, we launched with just four employees in a small, rented laboratory working together towards a big goal - map the entire mammalian brain in a way the world had never seen. 🧠📈 #OpenScienceWeek
Most neuroscientists are materialists. Out of body experiences challenge this, but they occur when the EEG suggests recovery of consciousness after aa heart attack (Parnia et alb2023).
A study by Bartels et al (J Neurosci) showed that decoding what colour one person was seeing also decode what another person was seeing. I haven’t read the study but it is a clever way of trying to find out if your blue is my blue. Not my expertise but worth expert discussion.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study Tomoya Nakamura's first fMRI project ... in which we hereby release a preprint as a way of pre-registration 🧠📈
Representational Geometries of Perception and Working Memory: A Pilot Study
This study aims to compare the neural representational geometry of visual perception and visual working memory using human fMRI. In our pilot experiment, observers viewed a face-scene blended image (s...
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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁 We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 💊
CNN@cnn.com · 11mo agoJerome Adams, who served as US surgeon general during President Donald Trump’s first administration, is calling for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be fired as controversy continues to swirl over his handling of vaccine approvals. https://cnn.it/47s9lKt
There are a couple - I reference this one by @scienceimpacts.org the most: scienceimpacts.org
SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research
Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide
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If you could show just ONE chart re: science grant terminations in the US to a group of college students, what chart would it be? #nih #nsf #psycscisky 🧠🟦 #edusky #academicsky #statssky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "... observers perceive scene images achromatized in the peripheral region (chimera images) as full-color images... inattentional noise increases the occurrence of strong color signals that exceed the internal color detection criterion..." Nishida lab 🧠📈
Inattentional noise leads to subjective color uniformity across the visual field
Humans perceive a vividly colored world coherently across the visual field, even though our peripheral vision has limited color sensitivity compared t…
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Enough about mitochondria. I’d like to know what RFK Jr. thinks about the danger from midichlorians.
Adam Keiper@adamkeiper.com · 11mo agoWTF RFK Jr.: "I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...and I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look." www.c-span.org/program/publ...
