New #braininspired
#MazviitaChirimuuta
#TheBrainAbstracted
#Simplification in the #History & #Philosophy of #Neuroscience
» when we try to understand something complex, like the brain, using models, and math, and analogies, for example - we should keep in mind these are all ways of simplifying and abstracting away details to give us something we actually can understand.
...
necessary to do the science and limit the interpretation we can claim from our results «
https://youtu.be/NwNHW4otoJQ
#neurobuzz
BI 186 Mazviita Chirimuuta: The Brain Abstracted

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From:
» what we called 'standard hypothesis'

..

Emotional stimuli are process initially, via a dedicated modular system that operates rapidly, automatically, in the sense of without attention, and largely independently of conscious awareness, and that defects..

..so this is not just a curiosity for researchers in the lab, it has enormous impact in in society.. «

To:
#heterarchy

A cool #neurolecture by @PessoaBrain
https://youtu.be/1fqM5FGQJdQ
#neuroscience
#neurobuzz
#systemsneuroscience

The Brain as a Distributed, Entangled System - Professor Luiz Pessoa

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» #Neuroscientists will need to open up to and embrace the uncomfortable possibility that the human #brain is a biological system that goes beyond what human intelligence alone can fully grasp without the assistance of AI tools applied to #bigdata «
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2024.01.016

#AI expert authors seem not aware that almost all #neuroscience #labs are already publishing research employing #ML some even employing #LLMs

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Then wrote a genuine BOX 1
Limitations of current LLM tools

#neurobuzz

#Neurodon - Neuroscience on Mastodon (Responses) - Google Drive

Action Readiness Potential #RP
that precede Spontaneous Decision Readiness, that could lead to Neural correlates of #consciousness ?

2023 #WilliamJames Prize

Latent awareness:
Early conscious access to motor preparation processes is linked to the readiness potential
Parés-Pujolràs et al
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116140

Feeling ready:
Neural bases of prospective motor readiness judgements
w/ K Matić
https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niad003

Elisabeth Parés Pujolràs
https://youtu.be/watch?v=ZA9lqzBDugo

#neuroscience
#neurobuzz
#NCC

» But to what extent & at what scales
brain dynamics & function depend on the specific details of their nodes & edges

&, on the other hand,

to what extent
simple network structure retains sufficient information to account for brain structure, dynamics, & function

are not yet totally clear questions «

Does the brain behave like a (complex) network? I. Dynamics
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2023.12.006

#complexsystems
#neurodon
#neurobuzz
#systemsneuroscience
#compneuro

HT subscribe:
https://mathstodon.xyz/@manlius/111744238092534983

There's been an explosion of papers doing cell-type specific research in rodent neuroscience lately. Any human neuroscience researchers here who could tell us whether and how much all these studies are relevant for human brain circuits?

#neuroscience #NeuroBuzz

By ironical serendiripy, drift, change, synchronicity, or else:

Two new papers with thoughtful #NetworkNeuroscience critique!

» Beyond Networks:
Explaining Dynamics in the Natural and Social Sciences «
@yoginho et al.
https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/htc78

» Circular and unified analysis in network neuroscience «
Mika Rubinov
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79559

With different framework approaches, conclusions, while complimentary & so needed!

#ComplexSystems
#NetworkScience
#SystemsNeuroscience
#neurodon
#neurobuzz

OSF

What is Explanation in Neuroscience? | Dr. Mazviita Chirimuuta (Part 1 of 4)

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» #neuroscience has become so broad & technically sophisticated that individual researchers can no longer fully understand the technical foundations of their experiments.

The average #systemsneuroscience project, for example, requires in-depth knowledge of animal #surgery #mechanical #optical & #electrical #engineering #statistics and #computerscience «

https://www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neuroscience/why-and-how-we-need-to-professionalize-neuroscience/

#neurodon
#neurobuzz
#systemsneuro

Why (and how) we need to professionalize neuroscience

Moving away from the field’s do-it-yourself ethos and embracing professional technical expertise will make research more efficient.

The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives