Cortical area remixes macaques’ knowledge blocks to solve new problems www.thetransmitter.org/cognitive-ne... #neuroscience

Macaque brains remix learned actions to solve new problems

When monkeys draw novel complex shapes, neural activity representing a previously learned repertoire appears in a single brain area.

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“motor cortex that may have some specialization, ‘but it’s still integrating parts of the body in a way that probably promotes meaningful, ethologically relevant behavior patterns,’- Graziano said This is reminiscent of our and @katrinfranke.bsky.social findings in visual cortex.

The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The motor cortex is organized functionally to promote “meaningful, ethologically relevant behavior patterns,” new study shows. #neuroskyence By @claudia-lopez.bsky.social www.thetransmitter.org/motor-cortex...

Very much looking forward to taking part in the Comparative Brain meeting @pasteur.fr in Paris next week. Thanks @k4tj4.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social @juliasliwa.bsky.social for putting together such a great program to think about brain evolution 🧪🧠 braintrees.github.io/ComparativeB...

🧠🐒🐼🐷🐭🐬🦁Last chance to register to the Comparative Brain Meeting, April 27–30 2026, @pasteur.fr and online. MRI, fossils, connectivity, behaviour Register: forms.gle/DekynBhj8YC4... Program: braintrees.github.io/ComparativeB... @k4tj4.bsky.social @institutducerveau.bsky.social @r3rt0.bsky.social

Comparative Brain Meeting

Let's meet and exchange about our projects and progress on comparative brain analyses – comparative data, tools, and ways to work together. The meeting will be hosted at Institut Pasteur, 28 Rue Du ...

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Neuroscientist Patricia Goldman-Rakic would have been 89 years old today. Her work in the 1970s showed us on a molecular level how working memory functions through loop firing and local suppression. Sadly, she passed away in 2003 at just 66 years old. tinyurl.com/5n7evkh6 #WomenInSTEM #NeuroSky 🧠

Making Working Memory Work: The Multidisciplinary Neuroscience of Patricia Goldman-Rakic

You’re a monkey, and somebody in a white lab coat has shown you a location where a delicious, ever-so-nummy, bit of banana has been placed, and then obscured your visual field. It is up to you, my goo...

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This is the way

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content

“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

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🧠🧪🧵1/37 Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Dispute erupts over universal cortical brain-wave claim

The debate highlights opposing views on how the cortex transmits information.

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Join us for a day of great science! "From boys to men: A journey through gender expectations" on April 2nd at the Paris Brain Institute #genderequity #gender #womeninleadership #alba #science #neuroskyence @institutducerveau.bsky.social

A sad reflection of the state of visiting the USA - Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns Marc Abraham: “We cannot in good conscience ask the new winners, or the international journalists who cover the event, to travel to the US this year.”

Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns

Marc Abraham: “During the past year, it has become unsafe for our guests to visit the country."

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New paper hot off the (pre-)press! We dig into the evolutionary origins of neural computations for behavioral control across mice, monkeys, and humans: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6.... As our lab's first foray into comparative analysis of neural dynamics, I’m super excited about this work! 1/18

4/ Ida Henrietta Hyde developed one of the first intracellular microelectrodes for stimulating and recording single cells. She opened new ways of studying nervous and circulatory systems, and became the first woman to receive a PhD in physiology from the University of Heidelberg.

1/ Today is UNESCO’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science #IDWGIS To mark the occasion, Lisa Thomann and Julie Batut highlight four pioneering biologists whose work shaped developmental biology, electrophysiology, and genetics. 🔗 buff.ly/eVipb6d

🧠 The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting early-career scientists to establish their own independent research groups within one of Europe’s most dynamic neuroscience research centers. 👉 More information: parisbraininstitute.org/news/paris-b... #Hiring #AI

Paris Brain Institute Call for Junior Group Leaders in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | Paris Brain Institute

The Paris Brain Institute is launching a Call for Junior Group Leaders, inviting outstanding early-career scientists in artificial intelligence, data science, computational neuroscience, and related f...

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📚 The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back! Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by Paris Brain Institute. 📆 Application deadline: February 1, 2026. 👉 Find out more: parisbraininstitute.org/dim-c-brains...

The DIM C-BRAINS international PhD program opens its 2026 call for applications. | Paris Brain Institute

The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back. Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by the Institut du Cerveau. Applicati...

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Paris Brain Institute - Institut du Cerveau@institutducerveau.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📚 The international DIM C-BRAINS PhD program is back! Up for grabs: 7 fully funded, 3-year doctoral contracts in the Île-de-France region, 3 of which will be hosted by Paris Brain Institute. 📆 Application deadline: February 1, 2026. 👉 Find out more: parisbraininstitute.org/dim-c-brains...

🔬 As part of the World Brain Health Forum 2026, the Paris Brain Institute had the honor of welcoming His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations, for a visit highlighting the Institute’s scientific mission and the uniqueness of its model. #WBHF2026

🌍 The World Brain Health Forum 2026 continues today at the UNESCO House with its main conference, opened by Serge Weinberg, Jean Todt, Olivier Goy, Didier Samuel, and Stéphanie Debette, followed by inaugural speeches from Khaled El-Enany, H.E. Ban Ki-moon, and Dr. Tedros. #WBHF2026

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Facial gestures are enacted through a cortical hierarchy of dynamic and stable codes

Facial gestures are one fundamental set of communicative behaviors in primates, generated through the dynamic arrangement of many fine muscles. Anatomy shows that facial muscles are under direct contr...

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1/6 And another article out in @commsphys.nature.com Sparse group interactions polarize…but dense group interactions moderate!! Polarization emerges as a structural effect of how groups are organized: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Facial expressions may involve an “everything, everywhere, all at once” type of coding in the brain, a new study suggests. By @natmesanash.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/emotion-proc...

Facial expressions less reflexive than previously thought

A countenance such as a grimace activates many of the same cortical pathways as voluntary facial movements.

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1 To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape? We looked at brains & behaviours of 70 species, you’ll be surprised! 🧵Thread on our new preprint with @r3rt0.bsky.social , doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Sharing an amazing postdoc opportunity in Paris in the lab of Julia Sliwa (@juliasliwa.bsky.social) in NHP Neuroimaging and Neurophysiology on social vision and cognition! CNRS: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U... Paris Brain Institute: offres.institutducerveau-icm.org//fr/jobs/196...

Excited to share our latest preprint led by @jarildy.bsky.social looking at social and non social reward representations. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... with help from @hyma2194.bsky.social and @jennisisaac.bsky.social.

Non-overlapping social and food reward representations in the basolateral amygdala

The ability to consider and appraise positively valenced stimuli in the environment, such as food and social interaction, to guide appropriate action is important for survival of most animals. Several...

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What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The psychophysics of style - Nature Human Behaviour

Drawing on methods from psychophysics across ten experiments, Boger and Firestone examine the cognitive and computational foundations of style perception. Their findings suggest that this capacity is grounded in psychological processes for separating form from content.

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Trends in Cognitive Sciences@cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Online Now: How do we see style?

Check out @bcdavidson.bsky.social's preprint (w/ @georgiaturner.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @livia-tomova.bsky.social and co.) about the (computational) consequences of social isolation in social media use during covid!

Brandon C Davidson@bcdavidson.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🚨 New Preprint 🚨 Prolonged Isolation is associated with an increased behavioural sensitivity to ‘Likes’ on social media. 🧵 Social media rewards are inherently social—but does posting change during social isolation, when in-person social rewards are limited? It turns out, yes!

Our new chapter is out! 📢 Co-first-authored with @mawadafreville.bsky.social with attentive supervision of @chacanteloup.bsky.social🤗 How has intentionality been theorised in developmental psychology and primatology, and how is it studied in animal signals?🐒🦜👶 Take a look 👇 doi.org/10.1016/B978...

Intentional Communication in Animals

The evolutionary origins of human language are deeply intertwined with the ability to communicate intentionally. Grounded in frameworks from developme…

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HIRING! Are you looking for a PhD fellowship? Come join our group geco.iit.it Opening position starting from November 2025, official call coming out soon. Write me if interested francesco.papaleo@iit.it

Mutual gaze and facial mimicry as drivers of shared engagement in macaque play fighting @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social et al. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Thrilled to share our lab's first preprint on the neural mechanisms underlying helping behavior in mice! 🧠🐭 We show that dorsal hippocampal networks play a key role in rescuing a distressed peer: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...