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Ben Timberlake Sep 21, 2023

📃A team of CIMeC students has won best paper at the International Natural Language Generation Conference for “ChatGPT's Information Seeking Strategy: Insights From the 20-Questions Game”.  Leonardo Bertolazzi & Filippo Merlo of the MSc and Davide Mazzaccara of the PhD programs, along with their supervisor Raffaella Bernardi took the prize for “best evaluation paper” at INLG2023
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https://sigdialinlg2023.github.io/paper_inlg56.html

Program SIGdial & INLG 2023: ChatGPT's Information Seeking Strategy: Insights From the 20-Questions Game

Ben Timberlake Sep 19, 2023

📃Parkinsons Disease is accompanied by decreased functional connectivity in the Theory of Mind network early on and by broad increase later — especially in the cognitive and affective subnetworks, write Giuseppe Rabini of Luca Turella's group & colleagues from CeRiN and LNiF, in a special issue of the European Journal of Neuroscience

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ejn.16145

@alessandradodich

Ben Timberlake Sep 9, 2023

📃Does sensory stimulation influence embryonic brain development? Direct evidence now found in vivo via manganese enhanced MRI inside unhatched chick eggs by @elenalorenzi3 @gvallortigara Stefano Tambalo & Angelo Bifone. Out this week in @elife

https://elifesciences.org/articles/86116

Manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging reveals light-induced brain asymmetry in embryo

The protocol reported can open the way to investigation of the effects of a variety of sensory stimulations on brain activity in embryo.

eLife

Ben Timberlake Sep 7, 2023

New thinking about vision Deep Neural Networks, predicting human similarity judgments and brain multivariate representational dissimilarity matrices from DNN activations by @urihasson ’s Information and Integration Lab, out now in Neural Networks.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2023.08.049

Ben Timberlake Jul 24, 2023

📃 Connectivity in a network of brain regions of people with Parkinson’s disease predicts levels of motor impairment, and the individual profiles may constitute “fingerprints” in resting-state fMRI, write CIMeC researcher Giuseppe Rabin of Luca Turella’s Motor Control Group and colleagues at CeRiN and in a paper just out in Cerebral Cortex.

https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhad252/7224680?redirectedFrom=fulltext

@alessandradodich

Connectome-based fingerprint of motor impairment is stable along the course of Parkinson’s disease

Abstract. Functional alterations in brain connectivity have previously been described in Parkinson’s disease, but it is not clear whether individual differences

OUP Academic

Ben Timberlake Jun 30, 2023

📃Ingmar de Vries and Moritz Wurm of the Action Recognition & Concepts Group extend representational similarity analysis to investigate dynamic neural substrates and predictive processing during unfolding events, via #MEG in a @naturecomms report this week
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39355-y

Predictive neural representations of naturalistic dynamic input - Nature Communications

The neural processes underlying the prediction of unfolding external dynamics are not well understood. Here, the authors combine magnetoencephalography and naturalistic dynamic stimuli and show predictive neural representations of observed actions which are hierarchical in nature.

Nature

Ben Timberlake Jun 28, 2023

📃Using everyday items, #CIMeC researcher Javier Albayay helped the Global Consortium for Chemosensory Research test 11,000 people for smell and taste loss during the COVID-19 pandemic, reporting in journal Chemical Senses that the disease also reduces taste, even when not connected to smell https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjad020

Covid-19 affects taste independent of taste-smell confusions: results from a combined chemosensory home test and online survey from a large global cohort

Abstract. People often confuse smell loss with taste loss, so it is unclear how much gustatory function is reduced in patients self-reporting taste loss. Our pr

OUP Academic

Ben Timberlake Jun 13, 2023

📃 The brain’s action observation network encodes the structure and physics of events similarly, whether the scene’s constituents are animate or not, write Moritz Wurm of CIMeC’s Action Recognition and Concepts Group and colleagues in @naturecomms doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39062-8
#neuralrepresentation #actionobservationnetwork

Ben Timberlake Jun 9, 2023

Final days to send your abstract for CogEvo 2023 (deadline: tomorrow!). We are getting evolutionary, we are getting neuro, and we are definitely getting unconventional — don’t miss this!

Plus …
… if you’re in town the day before, July 5, you can catch stem cell expert Elena Cattaneo speaking about “L’avventura della conoscenza” (talk in Italian).
event.unitn.it/cogevo/
#CIMeCevents #CogEvo2023

Ben Timberlake Jun 7, 2023

CogEvo features a small number of top speakers with plenty of time for discussion – *no* concurrent talks and *no* rushing from room to room!
3 days left to send your abstract: June 10

Check out our lineup:
• Mercedes Bengochea of Institut du Cerveau-Paris Brain Institute (ICM), Sorbonne Université, Inserm, CNRS, Hôpital Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France, “Behavioral and neural basis of numerical discrimination in Drosophila melanogaster”

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