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Neuron groups, not single cells, maintain brain stability

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

Disruptions in brain stability cause disorders such as epilepsy, but precious little is known about ...

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Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps, and the uncanny valley… | Accidental Scientist

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

It should be safe to conclude that humans can see frame rates greater than 24 fps. The next question...

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Distinguishing cause from effect using observational data: methods and benchmarks

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

The discovery of causal relationships from purely observational data is a fundamental problem in sci...

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Decreased segregation of brain systems across the healthy adult lifespan

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

The brain is a large-scale network, not unlike many social or technological networks. Just like soci...

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Penn researchers untangle the biological effects of blue light

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

Blue light can both set the mood and set in motion important biological responses. Researchers at th...

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the neuroscience of consciousness

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

Consciousness has traditionally been a philosophical question due largely to a lack of information r...

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Neural activity predicts the timing of spontaneous decisions

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

Researchers have discovered a new type of brain activity that underlies the timing of voluntary acti...

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What happens in our brain when we unlock a door?

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

People who are unable to button up their jacket or who find it difficult to insert a key in lock suf...

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Using rhythmic brain activity to track memories in progress

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

Using electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes attached to the scalps of 25 student subjects, a UO team...

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Clever Suppression in the Brain

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

Diversity of inhibiting nerve cells allows for more complex information processing: The hippocampus ...

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Sleep promotes branch-specific formation of dendritic spines after learning

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 21:27

How sleep helps learning and memory remains unknown. We report in mouse motor cortex that sleep afte...

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Computational model of axon guidance. (arXiv:1508.01537v1 [q-bio.NC])

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:24

Axon guidance (AG) towards their target during embryogenesis or after injury is an important issue i...

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A Multiscale Analysis of Traveling Waves in Stochastic Neural Fields. (arXiv:1508.00919v1 [math.PR])

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:24

We analyze the effects of noise on the traveling wave dynamics in neural fields. The noise influence...

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A Sinc Wavelet Describes the Receptive Fields of Neurons in the Motion Cortex. (arXiv:1507.08736v1 [q-bio.NC])

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:24

Visual perception results from a systematic transformation of the information flowing through the vi...

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Computational principles of biological memory. (arXiv:1507.07580v1 [q-bio.NC])

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:24

Memories are stored, retained, and recollected through complex, coupled processes operating on multi...

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Thermodynamic limits to information harvesting by sensory systems. (arXiv:1408.5128v2 [q-bio.QM] UPDATED)

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:24

In view of the relation between information and thermodynamics we investigate how much information a...

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Networks that learn the precise timing of event sequences. (arXiv:1412.1713v2 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:24

Neuronal circuits can learn and replay firing patterns evoked by sequences of sensory stimuli. After...

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Functioning brain follows famous sand pile model

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:24

In 1999 Danish scientist Per Bak made the startling proposal that the brain remained stable for much...

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Spatial Effects of Delay-induced Stochastic Oscillations in a Multi-Cellular System. (arXiv:1506.03687v1 [nlin.AO])

Neuro news - Thu, 04/09/2020 - 18:24

We explore the joint effect of the intrinsic noise and time delay on the spatial pattern formation w...

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