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Neuron groups, not single cells, maintain brain stability
Disruptions in brain stability cause disorders such as epilepsy, but precious little is known about ...
Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps, and the uncanny valley… | Accidental Scientist
It should be safe to conclude that humans can see frame rates greater than 24 fps. The next question...
Distinguishing cause from effect using observational data: methods and benchmarks
The discovery of causal relationships from purely observational data is a fundamental problem in sci...
Decreased segregation of brain systems across the healthy adult lifespan
The brain is a large-scale network, not unlike many social or technological networks. Just like soci...
Penn researchers untangle the biological effects of blue light
Blue light can both set the mood and set in motion important biological responses. Researchers at th...
the neuroscience of consciousness
Consciousness has traditionally been a philosophical question due largely to a lack of information r...
Neural activity predicts the timing of spontaneous decisions
Researchers have discovered a new type of brain activity that underlies the timing of voluntary acti...
What happens in our brain when we unlock a door?
People who are unable to button up their jacket or who find it difficult to insert a key in lock suf...
Using rhythmic brain activity to track memories in progress
Using electroencephalogram (EEG) electrodes attached to the scalps of 25 student subjects, a UO team...
Clever Suppression in the Brain
Diversity of inhibiting nerve cells allows for more complex information processing: The hippocampus ...
Sleep promotes branch-specific formation of dendritic spines after learning
How sleep helps learning and memory remains unknown. We report in mouse motor cortex that sleep afte...
Computational model of axon guidance. (arXiv:1508.01537v1 [q-bio.NC])
Axon guidance (AG) towards their target during embryogenesis or after injury is an important issue i...
A Multiscale Analysis of Traveling Waves in Stochastic Neural Fields. (arXiv:1508.00919v1 [math.PR])
We analyze the effects of noise on the traveling wave dynamics in neural fields. The noise influence...
A Sinc Wavelet Describes the Receptive Fields of Neurons in the Motion Cortex. (arXiv:1507.08736v1 [q-bio.NC])
Visual perception results from a systematic transformation of the information flowing through the vi...
Computational principles of biological memory. (arXiv:1507.07580v1 [q-bio.NC])
Memories are stored, retained, and recollected through complex, coupled processes operating on multi...
Thermodynamic limits to information harvesting by sensory systems. (arXiv:1408.5128v2 [q-bio.QM] UPDATED)
In view of the relation between information and thermodynamics we investigate how much information a...
Researchers find the organization of the human brain to be nearly ideal | news @ Northeastern
Networks that learn the precise timing of event sequences. (arXiv:1412.1713v2 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
Neuronal circuits can learn and replay firing patterns evoked by sequences of sensory stimuli. After...
Functioning brain follows famous sand pile model
In 1999 Danish scientist Per Bak made the startling proposal that the brain remained stable for much...
Spatial Effects of Delay-induced Stochastic Oscillations in a Multi-Cellular System. (arXiv:1506.03687v1 [nlin.AO])
We explore the joint effect of the intrinsic noise and time delay on the spatial pattern formation w...