Angelo VarlottaCan neuroscientists decode memories solely from a map of synaptic connections?
| Five experts discuss the progress, possibilities and hurdles of decoding a “nontrivial” memory from an organism just by analyzing its brain connectivity patterns |
The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
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https://www.thetransmitter.org/brain-inspired/can-neuroscientists-decode-memories-solely-from-a-map-of-synaptic-connections/
El Duvelle"Fear and loathing on study section: Reviewing grant proposals while the system is burning"
https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/fear-and-loathing-on-study-section-reviewing-grant-proposals-while-the-system-is-burning/
Stephen Matheson🌵🌲This is gold:
"Being scientific is hard for human brains, but as an adversarial collaboration on a massive scale, science is our only method for collectively separating how we want things to be from how they are."
Pragmatic Teams#AllaKatsnelson in @thetransmitter, on #SheenaJosselyn's work on #engrams.
I like #TheTransmitter for their accessible writing on #neuroscience. It's building bridges for interested people, without over-simplification.
»They seemed to be catching a glimpse of a real-time competitive mechanism in which the #neurons with the ramped up #CREB expression were primed to jump into an #engram. They had found what they were looking for.«
https://www.thetransmitter.org/memory/sheena-josselyn-and-memories-lost-found-and-created/
Teixi@PessoaBrain @NicoleCRust @tdverstynen @albertcardona @cogneurophys
I skimmed first the article, then read the article, to finally fully read the paper: So that was nicely surprised how talented is this piece from Bahar Gholipour & #TheTransmitter editors, because displays a certain creative hard work done to explain it for any kind of non-expert global readers!
ps: The Also: linked piece —now checked & edit:
2023 Oct. ref w/ your contrib.
confused: recently read piece w old ref incl you?!
Yep it is silly how many open resources exist —or at least open for research institutions requests, yet still no #neuroscience research institution has been able to keep an up to date list of resources.
My contribution with resource links
+ 3 datasets
(ABCD, HCP, UKB)
https://mastodon.social/@teixi/111154822881282458
#thetransmitter.org staff could keep a resources list?
Laurent Perrinet@thetransmitter #TheTransmitter (not yet on the fediverse) has an interesting post on
Why (and how) we need to professionalize neuroscience
I have contradictory views on this: tinkering is learning, reinventing the wheel is validating, ...
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