In 'Southampton Water,' (1872) Whistler has reduced shipping vessels to ghostly forms in the deepening twilight, the only brightness comes from the reflections of lights and the moon. The setting serves primarily as a vehicle for his interest in the tonal harmonies of darkness.

Great cross-species large-scale analysis of data from @ayeletlandau.bsky.social and others on brain rhythms!

Earl K. Miller@earlkmiller.bsky.social · 5d ago

Are brain rhythms a steady hum or a brief buzz? Both. Alpha and beta activity are relatively sustained, helping maintain ongoing brain state, supporting its role in top-down control. Universal rhythmic architecture uncovers two modes of neural dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroscience

New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Nearly a decade after starting the project, the first major results from our comparative connectomics work is online! Comparing the head direction circuits of the central complex in bees, ants and flies, recapitulating >300million years of evolution.

Inside their hive, bees use a gravity compass during the waggle dance. @beetzjerome.bsky.social presents his research about how bees sense gravity.

Yossi Yovel talks about the acoustic world experienced by hundreds of bats leaving a cave and how they succeed navigating in such a cocktail party nightmare. The second part of his talk was about acoustic cognitive maps in bats. 🦇🗺

We still think of wildfires as something that happen to other people, in other places. But the world is changing, and the wildfire in Suffolk is a symptom of that. This is how average annual temperature in Dunwich has changed since 1940, from here: era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu?lat=52.28&ln...

Check out the new preprint from the amazing @adamjcurtis.bsky.social! Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition 🧪

Adam Curtis@adamjcurtis.bsky.social · 7d ago

📢 New preprint with @aidanhorner.bsky.social and @marwimber.bsky.social investigating how schematic violations shape memory for sequences of events. Memory Benefits for Schematically Incongruent Sequences Depend on the Type of Violation osf.io/preprints/ps...

𝗡𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝘅: 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗺𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 A must read for systems neuroscience. #neuroskyence doi.org/10.1016/j.ne...

***New preprint from the lab*** showing “Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits”. In sleep we show spiking sequences in V1 (sensory neocortex!) that represent information that has not been directly experienced www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @bndu.ox.ac.uk @ndcnoxford.bsky.social

Generative replay across hippocampal-neocortical circuits

To make flexible decisions, the brain needs to make inferences between events that were not directly experienced together. In sharp-wave ripple (SWR) events, during periods of rest and sleep, spiking ...

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This is a frustrating article - not one word on how, since everyone is feeling the same, we should be rising up to do something about it. We don't *have* to bake to death; it's a choice we're making www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Heatwave anxiety can make you feel 'incredibly helpless' - here's how to manage it

Extreme heat can take a toll on mental health - and young people and women are among the groups most at risk, according to one study.

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Join us in Vienna! We are looking for a #PhD student and a #Postdoc to investigate #innovation in great #apes: PhD ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Postdoc ad: share.eva.mpg.de/index.php/s/... Application deadline: August 17th. Please share widely!

🚨 new lab preprint! Research from @gordonfeld.bsky.social during his DFG personal fellowship to my lab many moons ago: Global structure of new relational knowledge networks is represented in retrosplenial complex, and node-distance in hippocampus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

"..CA3 operates as a nonlinearly gated scene constructor and CA1 as a continuous landmark integrator to build and maintain the cognitive map." How visual scenes recruit spatial maps: threshold-gated activation in CA3 versus continuous integration in CA1 Inah Lee Lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

How visual scenes recruit spatial maps: threshold-gated activation in CA3 versus continuous integration in CA1

The hippocampal cognitive map is constructed from environmental sensory inputs, but the conditions that recruit a spatial map from a quiescent baseline remain unclear. Using a parametric virtual reali...

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Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Replay of procedural memory is independent of the hippocampus - Nature Neuroscience

Thompson, Rollik and colleagues show that, during sleep, the brain replays procedural memories in the striatum independently of the hippocampus. Replay content was shaped by prior reward and error out...

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🚨 new lab preprint! Research from @gordonfeld.bsky.social during his DFG personal fellowship to my lab many moons ago: Global structure of new relational knowledge networks is represented in retrosplenial complex, and node-distance in hippocampus www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.

The UK countryside is full of interdimensional portals. You just have to know where to look. I've decided to make a thread here of some of the best ones I've found on walks. 1. JRR Tolkien's Psychedelic Lime Kiln.

I have a new paper out in Science today with colleagues Damian Blasi, Marcus Hamilton, and Russell Gray. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

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Come to ICOM next summer, it's going to be lit! Rumor has it that the first memory-based comedy show (ICOMedy) may be taking place.

International Conference On Memory 26-30 July 2027 in Glasgow@icom-memory.bsky.social · 3mo ago

We've now highlighted all our amazing confirmed keynote speakers! Please sign up to our email list as this will be the main way we will communicate. Stay tuned for news about submissions, registration, and lots more! icom-memory.org #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cognition #ICOM2027 #philosophysky 🧪

🧠 New preprint alert! 🧠 Leo led the heroic effort to improve how we map connections across large cortical networks in macaques—stably—over weeks to years. The secret sauce: a combo of optogenetics + µECoG + new signal processing to localize stim-driven responses. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Combining phase analysis and causal stimulation enables longitudinal mesoscale connectivity mapping

Uncovering the circuit mechanisms of flexible behavior requires characterizing how neural signals propagate across large-scale networks and tracking how those networks evolve over time. Signal propaga...

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I'm (briefly) discussing the idea of Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in my new book and when it comes to human beings, this blogpost from 2018 still stands... www.wiringthebrain.com/2018/05/gran...

Grandma’s trauma – a critical appraisal of the evidence for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in humans

Can molecular memories of our ancestors’ experiences affect our own behaviour and physiology? That idea has certainly...

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When a new psychology paper uses a large cross-cultural sample, but does not devote a single sentence to describing the data collection methodology or sample...

Neil Patrick Harris Makes a Sad Face

Alt: Neil Patrick Harris Makes a Sad Face

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When we reach artificial superintelligence (ASI) will our computers hate humanity or be indifferent to us? Join me to explore the future possibilities with Ben Goertzel this week on Inner Cosmos. eagleman.com/podcast/163

Thanks for sharing @hugospiers.bsky.social! This paper grew out of a collaboration between Arne Ekstrom's and Robert Wilson's groups. I'm especially grateful to Arne for providing access to this unique dataset collected by Ahbi, and to Bob for developing the control theory model.

Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · 3w ago

Modeling the journey as well as the destination: a control theory account of rotational navigation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Most Popular Sport By Country What's your favourite sport? Full list by country: brilliantmaps.com/most-popu...

What a hero of modern science and role model! If you don't know who Brenda Milner is, go look her up right now!

Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Brenda Milner is a hero and 108!! She did a lot more than discover the hippocampus is linked to declarative memory, but that work is the most famous.

Brenda Milner is a hero and 108!! She did a lot more than discover the hippocampus is linked to declarative memory, but that work is the most famous.

Admirable Women@admirablewomen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Neuroscientist Dr. Brenda Milner is recognized as one of the fundamental founders of modern cognitive neuropsychology. She proved the hippocampus is essential for forming long-term "declarative" memory (facts, names & events). She was born #OTD in 1918--she's 108 years old today! #WomenInSTEM

Homer’s dying words were, “Keep my epic poems off IMAX, or I’ll send the wrath of Ares upon your next 10 generations.”

The emergence of a novel CA1 spatial map requires direct entorhinal input From Kentros Lab. A useful result to help explain how cognitive maps get built www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

This is a really interesting and important study: www.nature.com/articles/s41... However, isn't it concerning that sweeping conclusions about functional organization of cortex are being reached on the basis of a single task?

Rarely categorical, highly separable representations along the cortical hierarchy - Nature

Cortical circuits prioritize diversity over categorical structure, supporting a computational regime geared towards high-dimensional, highly separable neural representations.

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