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Axiomatic Relation between Thermodynamic and Information-Theoretic Entropies
Author(s): Mirjam Weilenmann, Lea Kraemer, Philippe Faist, and Renato RennerTwo notions of entropy a...
Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Improves Cognitive Control
Applying transcranial direct current stimulation to the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex can help to i...
Feds unveil rule requiring cars to ‘talk’ to each other | TheHill
The Obama administration released a long-awaited rule on Tuesday requiring all new vehicles to have ...
Consensus clustering approach to group brain connectivity matrices. (arXiv:1612.03760v2 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
A novel approach rooted on the notion of consensus clustering, a strategy developed for community de...
Continuous-Time Discrete-Distribution Theory for Activity-Driven Networks
Author(s): Lorenzo Zino, Alessandro Rizzo, and Maurizio PorfiriActivity-driven networks are a powerf...
Neurons in the human eye are organized for error correction
Neurons found in the human eye naturally display a form of error correction in the collective visual...
Positive Feedback and Synchronized Bursts in Neuronal Cultures. (arXiv:1611.05150v1 [q-bio.NC])
Synchronized bursts (SBs) with complex structures are common in neuronal cultures. Although the orig...
Brain's Support Cells Could Explain Mysterious "Spreading Pain"
Scientists uncover how non-neuronal cells induce synaptic plasticity in pain circuits, potentially a...
Phase transitions and self-organized criticality in networks of stochastic spiking neurons. (arXiv:1606.06391v2 [nlin.AO] UPDATED)
Phase transitions and critical behavior are crucial issues both in theoretical and experimental neur...
Decoding dynamic brain patterns from evoked responses: A tutorial on multivariate pattern analysis applied to time-series neuroimaging data. (arXiv:1606.02840v2 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) or brain decoding methods have become standard practice in anal...
Gene networks accelerate evolution by fitness landscape learning. (arXiv:1609.08784v1 [q-bio.PE])
We consider evolution of a large population, where fitness of each organism is defined by many pheno...
Stability of synchronization under stochastic perturbations in leaky integrate and fire neural networks of finite size. (arXiv:1609.07103v2 [math.PR] UPDATED)
We study the synchronization of fully-connected and totally excitatory integrate and fire neural net...
Brain Connections More Sophisticated Than Previously Thought
A new study uncovers 140 proteins that have never previously been mapped to inhibitory synapses.
A Theory of Consciousness Founded on Neurons That Behave Like Qubits. (arXiv:1110.3547v2 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
This paper presents a hypothesis that consciousness is a natural result of neurons that become conne...
Synaptic plasticity and neuronal refractory time cause scaling behaviour of neuronal avalanches. (arXiv:1608.03467v1 [q-bio.NC])
Neuronal avalanches measured in vitro and in vivo in different cortical networks consistently exhibi...
Imaging the brain at multiple size scales
MIT researchers have developed a new technique for imaging brain tissue at multiple scales, allowing...
Coherence-Resonance Chimeras in a Network of Excitable Elements
Author(s): Nadezhda Semenova, Anna Zakharova, Vadim Anishchenko, and Eckehard SchöllWe demonstrate t...
Dynamic Decomposition of Spatiotemporal Neural Signals. (arXiv:1605.02609v1 [q-bio.NC])
Neural signals are characterized by rich temporal and spatiotemporal dynamics that reflect the organ...
Change in the brain: Astrocytes finally getting the recognition they deserve
Researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have demonstrated that astrocytes help con...