Philo Sophies1d ago

🧠🎭 #Consciousness Decoded: How #BrainArchitecture Creates Our Sense of Self

A highly complex, self-organized #system, a dynamic theater stage, and the ultimate question: Can the #brain ever fully understand itself?

📺 https://youtu.be/C2FVIbAyaH4

📎https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/03/22/kann-das-gehirn-das-gehirn-verstehen/

#Zoomposium #WolfSinger #Consciousness #BrainResearch #Neuroscience #CerebralCortex #PhilosophyOfMind #Cognition #ArtificialIntelligence #Brain #Philosophy #Science #HardProblem

GravitasJan 19

CEREBRAL CORTEX - ABDICATE (REIMAGINED) [OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO] (2025) SW EXCLUSIVE

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/5NT3aWopDBETZE4pRRk3Kh

CEREBRAL CORTEX - ABDICATE (REIMAGINED) [OFFICIAL LYRIC VIDEO] (2025) SW EXCLUSIVE

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GravitasJan 19

CEREBRAL CORTEX "ABDICATE (REIMAGINED)" OUT NOW!

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/wsmEPBhhzhghDHS2oC4bns

CEREBRAL CORTEX "ABDICATE (REIMAGINED)" OUT NOW!

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Show threadAlbert CardonaOct 2, 2025

@laurentperrinet

How cool is that. Just got reminded of this paper:

"Behavioral architecture of the cortical sheet", Douglas and Martin, 2012
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)01326-7

... proposing two axes across the cerebral cortex, one on time and one on space: a "Functional organisation of cortical sheet", as Figure 3 summarizes.

#neuroscience #CerebralCortex

Albert CardonaSep 4, 2025

"Short-term memory errors are strongly associated with a drift in neural activity in the posterior parietal cortex", Joon Ho Choi et al. 2025 (Jong-Cheol Rah's lab).

"Using 2-photon calcium imaging in the posterior parietal cortex (PPC) of mice performing a delayed match-to-sample task, we identified a subset of PPC neurons exhibiting both directional and temporal selectivity. Contrary to the hypothesis that STM errors primarily stem from mis-encoding during the sample phase, our findings reveal that these errors are more strongly associated with a drift in neural activity during the delay period. This drift leads to a gradual divergence away from the correct representation, ultimately leading to incorrect behavioral responses."

#neuroscience #LearningAndMemory #CerebralCortex #STM

Albert CardonaAug 12, 2025

"The synaptic architecture of layer 5 thick tufted excitatory neurons in mouse visual cortex", Bodor et al. 2025 (Nuno da Costa's lab)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02004-2

#neuroscience #MICrONs #connectomics #CerebralCortex

The synaptic architecture of layer 5 thick tufted excitatory neurons in mouse visual cortex - Nature Neuroscience

This study maps the connections of layer 5 pyramidal neurons in the mouse cortex, revealing distinct local and intercortical wiring patterns, and provides an open framework for exploring the connectivity of cell types.

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PLOS BiologyJun 13, 2025
Conflicting results have been obtained re changes in synaptic strength in the #CerebralCortex during the #Sleep-WakeCycle. This computational study provides a comprehensive understanding & unified framework about #synaptic dynamics during #sleep & wake states @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4kHeNwM
Cytology and GeneticsFeb 12, 2025
Giant Fusiform Cells of the Brain: Discovery, Identification, and Probable Functions - #giantfusiformcellsofthebrain #cerebralcortex #cytoarchitectonics #comparativebiology #historyofneuroscience #VolodymyrBetz #SantiagoRamonyCajal #ConstantinvonEconomo - https://link.springer.com/article/10.3103/S0095452724050098
Giant Fusiform Cells of the Brain: Discovery, Identification, and Probable Functions - Cytology and Genetics

Abstract— The article is devoted to giant fusiform cells of the brain (or giant spindles), neurons that are believed to play an important role in the implementation of the most complex forms of human psyche. Current data on the location, morphological and morphometric peculiarities, molecular phenotype of these neurons, as well as on the size, tangential, radial, and interspecific distribution, and ontogenetic and age dynamics of their population, are examine in detail in the work. The problem of definition and identification of giant spindles as a separate type of brain neurons is covered in detail. The possible functions of giant spindles are considered, especially from the point of view of the function of the areas of their preferential location (frontoinsular and anterior cingulate cortex). Available data on a possible involvement of giant spindles in mental and neurological pathology are also collected. In the second part of the article, the issue of the discovery of giant spindles and the role of outstanding neuromorphologists (V. Betz, S. Ramon y Cajal, and C. von Economo) in the description of these cells are discussed in detail. Based on the analysis of existing works and evidence of modern researchers, we demonstrate that Volodymyr Betz provided the first concise description of the localization and morphology of giant spindles, which from a modern point of view, can be considered sufficient to designate these cells as a separate population of spindle-shaped neurons of the brain.

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Alexander WeberNov 29, 2024
🚨 NEW PAPER OUT IN #cerebralcortex🚨
#hurst exponent of fMRI data from the developing #humanconnectomeproject
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Surprisingly, at preterm age, signals were anti-correlated (H < 0.5) but later became long-term positively autocorrelated (H > 0.5) at term; like we see in adults
https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae426
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Temporal complexity of the BOLD-signal in preterm versus term infants

Abstract. Preterm birth causes alterations in structural and functional cerebral development that are not fully understood. Here, we investigate whether ba

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Scienza et MagiaAug 31, 2024

L'amore è anche una questione di cervello. Scoperta nel cervello la ‘casa dell’amore’. Studio finlandese svela dove risiedono i sentimenti per figli, partner e animali. Un team di scienziati dell'università di Aalto ha indagato sei tipi di amore, ognuno dei quali illumina parti diverse del nostro cervello. Quello genitoriale sembra avere una marcia in più.
L'amore? Una questione di cervello.

#CerebralCortex #cervelloumano #meccanismineurali #neuroscienze #tipidiamore

https://scienzamagia.eu/sociale-collettivita/lamore-e-anche-una-questione-di-cervello/

L'amore è anche una questione di cervello

Scoperta nel cervello la ‘casa dell’amore’. Studio finlandese svela dove risiedono i sentimenti per figli, partner e animali. Un team di scienziati dell'u