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Brain Waves Initiated by Moving, Electrically Silent Source
Findings could help develop new treatments for epilepsy, study reports.
Actin May Be Key for Long Term Memory
A new study reports actin could be the key to the molecular machinery that helps form and store memo...
Brief wide-field photostimuli evoke and modulate oscillatory reverberating activity in cortical networks. (arXiv:1604.01943v1 [q-bio.NC])
Cell assemblies manipulation by optogenetics is pivotal to advance neuroscience and neuroengineering...
A Single Model Explains both Visual and Auditory Precortical Coding. (arXiv:1602.08486v2 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
Precortical neural systems encode information collected by the senses, but the driving principles of...
Genetic Mechanism Behind How We Think Identified
Researchers discovered a gene that provides that boost by increasing neurotransmitter release in a p...
Complex learning dismantles barriers in the brain
Scientists at the Jagiellonian University in Poland taught Braille to sighted individuals and found ...
Capturing the dynamical repertoire of single neurons with generalized linear models. (arXiv:1602.07389v3 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
A key problem in computational neuroscience is to find simple, tractable models that are nevertheles...
Selective activation of resting state networks following focal stimulation in a connectome- based network model of the human brain. (arXiv:1602.07311v1 [q-bio.NC])
Imaging studies suggest that the functional connectivity patterns of resting state networks (RS-netw...
Learning may need only a few bits of synaptic precision. (arXiv:1602.04129v2 [cond-mat.dis-nn] UPDATED)
Learning in neural networks poses peculiar challenges when using discretized rather then continuous ...
The Dynamics of Functional Brain Networks: Integrated Network States during Cognitive Function. (arXiv:1511.02976v3 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
Higher brain function relies upon the ability to flexibly integrate information across specialized c...
Has DeepMind Really Passed Go? — Backchannel — Medium
In the very same week that Artificial Intelligence lost one of its greatest pioneers, Marvin Minsky,...
A computational model describing the interplay of basal ganglia and subcortical background oscillations during working memory processes. (arXiv:1601.07740v1 [q-bio.NC])
Working memory is responsible for the temporary manipulation and storage of information to support r...
Using Firing-Rate Dynamics to Train Recurrent Networks of Spiking Model Neurons. (arXiv:1601.07620v1 [q-bio.NC])
Recurrent neural networks are powerful tools for understanding and modeling computation and represen...
Capacity For Memory is Ten Times Greater Than Previously Thought
A groundbreaking study reports memory capacity in the brain is far higher than previously believed. ...
Spike timing-dependent plasticity induces non-trivial topology in the brain. (arXiv:1601.01878v3 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
We study the capacity of Hodgkin-Huxley neuron in a network to change temporarily or permanently the...
Stimulation-based control of dynamic brain networks. (arXiv:1601.00987v1 [q-bio.NC])
The ability to modulate brain states using targeted stimulation is increasingly being employed to tr...
New insights into the molecular basis of memory
Scientists from the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases have shed new light on the molecula...
The topology of large Open Connectome networks for the human brain. (arXiv:1512.01197v2 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
The structural human connectome (i.e.\ the network of fiber connections in the brain) can be analyze...
New research helps to explain how temperature shifts the circadian clock
One important aspect of the internal time-keeping system continues to perplex scientists: its comple...
Full-density multi-scale account of structure and dynamics of macaque visual cortex. (arXiv:1511.09364v4 [q-bio.NC] UPDATED)
We present a multi-scale spiking network model of all vision-related areas of macaque cortex that re...