Anastasia Christakou

@christakou
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Professor of Neuroscience 👩‍🎓
Director of CINN 👩‍🔬
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children's welfare | science | 🧠 brains & their people
Websitehttps://anastasia.christakou.org/
Centrehttps://research.reading.ac.uk/cinn/
Institutionhttps://www.reading.ac.uk/
ORCiDhttps://ORCiD.org/0000-0002-4267-3436
Anastasia ChristakouNov 6, 2024
We are very excited to be seeking our fourth postdoctoral CINN Research Fellow.
Join us in a super-rewarding research development role, with substantial research resources, datasets, conference and training travel, technical support, and training opportunities.
https://buff.ly/3UATDWc
To find out about CINN visit our website: https://research.reading.ac.uk/cinn/
CINN Research Fellow:Whiteknights Reading UK

Anastasia ChristakouOct 8, 2024
Well this is exciting!
A mismatch between striatal cholinergic pauses and dopaminergic reward prediction errors.
Back to the drawing board for many models of basal ganglia signal integration.
https://buff.ly/3NgDTU1
Show threadAnastasia ChristakouJun 27, 2023

@ct_bergstrom
Fascinating paper and thread, thank you.

Are all scientists equally capable / appropriately trained to design or execute high risk research?

Is the long run utility of high risk research undoubtedly superior to incremental progress? (cf training early career researchers and students; managing potential societal harm and other inadvertent consequences; understanding the 'signal' in fields with high methodological uncertainty).

Anastasia ChristakouJun 16, 2023
Karthik SrinivasanJun 16, 2023

"Men release powerful changes into the world with cavalier disregard for consequences … they begin to “use” apparatus, technique, and organization with no attention to the ways in which these “tools” unexpectedly rearrange their lives … they willingly submit the governance of their affairs to the expertise of others … they begin to participate without second thought in megatechnical systems far beyond their comprehension or control … they endlessly proliferate technological forms of life that isolate people from each other and cripple rather than enrich the human potential … they stand idly by while vast technical systems reverse the reasonable relationship between means and ends."—Langdon Winner, Autonomous Technology (1977)

Relevant then, even more relevant and prescient now.

#Philosophy #Technology #AI #inequality #PoliticalEconomy #GlobalWarming #SilconValley #Critique

Anastasia ChristakouApr 8, 2023
Keith FrankishApr 8, 2023
Starting at 2pm UK time! My first solo Mind Chat. Can I persuade you that illusionism is not a silly and dangerous view? I'll give a little talk and then take questions. How will I cope without the reassuring presence of Philip Goff
?
https://www.youtube.com/live/xZxcair9oNk
The Ethical Implications of Illusionism

YouTube
Anastasia ChristakouMar 21, 2023

Join us for #ReadEmo23 this June to explore fluctuation and change in neurocognitive development and psychopathology.
Keynotes:
Eiko Fried, Leiden (@eikofried)
Rogier Kievit, Donders (@rogierK)
David Lydon-Staley, UPenn (@dlsta)
Argyris Stringaris, UCL
Patrik Vuilleumier, Geneva

For more details, and to submit an abstract: https://sites.google.com/site/readingemotions/2023
#neuroscience

Reading Emotions

This year's edition of Reading Emotions explores how we measure and understand the fluctuations in neural and psychological components of thought and behaviour, across development and through the course of disorder. Keynote lectures will examine central themes and latest developments in theory,

Show threadAnastasia ChristakouMar 15, 2023
@DrYohanJohn I have kind of a soft spot for his account, so I look forward to reading the book to understand the resolution.
Thanks a lot.
Anastasia ChristakouMar 15, 2023
Earl K. MillerMar 15, 2023

‘Spatial Computing’ enables flexible working memory

Brain applies rhythms to physical patches of the cortex to selectively control just the right neurons at the right times to do the right things.

https://picower.mit.edu/news/spatial-computing-enables-flexible-working-memory

#neuroscience

‘Spatial Computing’ enables flexible working memory

Brain applies rhythms to physical patches of the cortex to selectively control just the right neurons at the right times to do the right things.

Show threadAnastasia ChristakouMar 15, 2023
@DrYohanJohn this thread is so interesting, thank you. Lined up the book to read.
Was curious though about what you call the nonsensical parts of Dennett's drafts?
Anastasia ChristakouMar 8, 2023
Show threadPhilip N CohenMar 8, 2023
" #ChatGPT exhibits something like the banality of evil... It summarizes the standard arguments in the literature by a kind of super-autocomplete, refuses to take a stand on anything, pleads not merely ignorance but lack of intelligence and ultimately offers a 'just following orders' defense, shifting responsibility to its creators."