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Nerve cells use each other as maps
When nerve cells form in an embryo they have to be guided to their final position by navigating a ki...
Spike Pattern Structure Influences Efficacy Variability under STDP and Synaptic Homeostasis. (arXiv:1505.04600v3 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
In neural systems, synaptic plasticity is usually driven by spike trains. Due to the inherent noises...
A First Big Step Toward Mapping the Human Brain | WIRED
It’s a long, hard road to understanding the human brain, and one of the first milestones in that jou...
Rhythmic Memory and Beat Tapping May Be Separate Skills
According to a new study, the ability to tap along to a beat and the ability to remember rhythms app...
Do general anaesthetics trigger a phase transition in the brain?
Model suggests tiny change in communication could have large effect on neuron interaction
Continuous parameter working memory in a balanced chaotic neural network. (arXiv:1508.06944v4 [cond-mat.dis-nn] UPDATED)
It has been proposed that neural noise in the cortex arises from chaotic dynamics in the balanced st...
How our brain remembers the order of events
A new theory and model helps explain how entorhinal time ramping cells produce hippocampal time cell...
Synaptic Time-Dependent Plasticity Leads to Efficient Coding of Predictions. (arXiv:1907.10879v1 [q-bio.NC])
Latency reduction of postsynaptic spikes is a well-known effect of Synaptic Time-Dependent Plasticit...
Memory Transferred between Snails, Challenging Standard Theory of How the Brain Remembers - Scientific American
UCLA neuroscientists reported Monday that they have transferred a memory from one animal to another ...
SuperSpike: Supervised learning in multi-layer spiking neural networks. (arXiv:1705.11146v2 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
A vast majority of computation in the brain is performed by spiking neural networks. Despite the ubi...
Neuron Types in Brain Are Defined by Gene Activity Shaping Their Communication Patterns
A new Cell study reports on the molecular-genetic basis of neural cell types. The study reports fami...
長庚大學發現大腦記憶形成機制 失智新見解登國際期刊
長庚大學吳嘉霖副教授團隊利用果蠅研究長期記憶形成的機制時，發現短、長期記憶的形成是由兩套截然不同的大腦神經迴路與分子機制所控制，也就是說，長期記憶並非由短期記憶轉化而來。這項重要研究成果顛覆以往科學界...
Glia. (arXiv:1708.00731v1 [q-bio.NC])
Essential introduction to glial cells with emphasis on astrocytes, microglia and their interplay in ...
Hacking the human brain -- lab-made synapses for artificial intelligence
One of the greatest challenges facing artificial intelligence development is understanding the human...
Using deep learning to reveal the neural code for images in primary visual cortex. (arXiv:1706.06208v1 [q-bio.NC])
Primary visual cortex (V1) is the first stage of cortical image processing, and a major effort in sy...
How the Brain Recognizes What the Eyes See
Researchers analyze V2 neurons to provide a better understanding pf how the brain processes what we ...
Working Memory: How You Keep Things "In Mind" Over the Short Term
Given its central role in our mental life working memory may become important in our quest to unders...
Computations of Visual Motion in the Brain
Researchers detail how the visual cortex and retina work together in visual motion perception. The p...
Evidence accumulation and change rate inference in dynamic environments. (arXiv:1607.08318v2 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
In a constantly changing world, animals must account for environmental volatility when making decisi...
Collective Stochastic Coherence in Recurrent Neuronal Networks. (arXiv:1701.00765v1 [nlin.AO])
Recurrent networks of dynamic elements frequently exhibit emergent collective oscillations, which ca...