I just heard the sad news that Leslie Ungerleider has passed away. Leslie was a giant. One of the architects of our understanding of the cerebral cortex. She was an inspiration and a fabulous mentor. She will be missed.
New result! We show what happens when anesthesia knocks you out and that we can wake up animals under anesthesia by stimulating their thalamus. I may be biased but I think that's pretty cool.
biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…
“There’s three things you can do. You can just up and quit, you can stick your head in the sand (and act as if nothing has changed), or you can dig in and try to solve the problems.” Well said, @russpoldrack
It has become increasingly clear that individual neurons are not the functional unit of the brain. Here's a review:
Towards the neural population doctrine sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
New paper! A universal pattern of brain wave frequencies. They are slower in deep cortical layers and faster in superficial layers. When something is this ubiquitous, you know it is doing something important.
picower.mit.edu/news/study-rev…
Work by @MendozaHalliday@alexjamesmajor
Working memory works better when neural activity is transient, rather than persistent. No wonder the brain does it that way.
Recurrent neural networks with transient trajectory explain working memory encoding mechanisms
nature.com/articles/s4200…#neuroscience
