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The best neuroscience and cognitive science on Bluesky, filtered and ranked by AI. Quality-sorted digest of the past week โ papers, expert discussion, methods debates. No politics, no pop-sci. For fresh trending content, see NeuroBrain Rising.
Anil Seth 1/2 ๐ Good news! ๐ The kind people at Behavioral and Brain Science have made the new collection on "Conscious AI and biological naturalism" #OpenAccess for a limited time: target article, all 50 commentaries, & my response. Go to the link and click 'save pdf': doi.org/10.1017/S014.... Do share!
Alfonso Martinez Arias An aptly titled paper shows, for the first time, the significance of heterogeneities of gene expression in the construction of complex systems : fate decisions are group decisions. Previously @biorxivpreprint cell.com/cell/fulltex... #MustRead #Gastruloids @Jshendure lab
Massimo (mirror) Selective attention test Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris, 2010 Original post
Eric Topol Healthy aging: the immune system's prominent links from 12 million single-cell RNA sequencing and proteomics in 8 cohorts www.cell.com/immunity/ful...
Colin Camerer #socforneuroecon Amrita Lamba et al MIT work showing social media use (esp TikTok) by 13-15yos is associated with lower striatal money reward sensitivity (using fMRI), as is true of pathological gamblers
Gaia Molinaro Our reward function compression work is now out in Nature Communications! ๐ In it, we present and empirically test a computational framework that formalizes the trade-offs between goal flexibility and learning efficiency. @annecollins.bsky.social @natureportfolio.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Eric Topol Why do small dogs live longer than large dog species, and what is the biologic basis of differences in lifespan and healthspan? Epigenetics. There's a lot in the methylation pattern of dogs to explain this @science.org science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Alfonso Martinez Arias ..and have a look at the highly related paper from @arjunraj.bsky.social biorxiv.org/content/10.1... with complementary experiments that reinforce the point and reveal multicellular #memory@arjunraj.bsky.social
The Conversation U.S. Scientists can now use light to turn specific brain cells on and off ๐ง Karl Deisseroth, who just won a Nobel Prize for helping pioneer the technique, explains how itโs helping researchers better understand everything from hunger and anxiety to memory and parenting. #podcast
Nirmitee Mulay Came back from my first ever real-time functional imaging & neurofeedback #rtfin! Happy to present our (blinded) results from upcoming #decnef study on emotional valence! Stay tuned for (hopefully, a big๐ค) reveal in near future! ;) @dsotob.bsky.social P.S. forgot the poster pic, so improvised :3
PessoaBrain ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป New preprint with Andrea Gambarotto. Neuroscience often treats control as a hierarchy: the structures behind a behavior hold a stable rank. We argue this mistakes a configuration for an architecture. ๐งต arxiv.org/abs/2610.04643 #neuroskyence
Abhishek Dedhe ๐ง Is hierarchical reasoning uniquely human, or do we share this capacity across species and development? Our new paper in Cognition, "Flexibility of hierarchical reasoning across age and species," explores how humans and non-humans flexibly deploy recursive strategies! ๐งต๐ doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
@samnorman-haignere.bsky.social New preprint from David Skrill with @jfeather.bsky.social : tinyurl.com/2xm8rucz We synthesize stimuli that decorrelate neural predictions from competing encoding models, revealing a dramatic improvement in auditory cortical prediction accuracy from adversarial training.
Jeremy Day #FluorescenceFriday image from UAB undergraduate Aditya Pradeep, with @odrake.bsky.social. Red = tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) protein Cyan = DAPI TH is the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of dopamine, and is densely expressed in axon terminals from midbrain dopamine neurons in the rat striatum.
Cornish Jackdaw Project New paper led by @lucahahn.bsky.social! Jackdaw partners coordinate & accept short-term costs to stay together. Relationships promote access to food & info. @uniexecec.bsky.social @shoalgroup.bsky.social @guillmcivor.bsky.social @royalsocietypublishing.org @swbiodtp.bsky.social tinyurl.com/rrv483hb