Out now in paperback!
"A fascinating and mind-stretching page-turner" - @davideagleman
"Absorbing and expansive" - @DrLindseyFitz
"Deeply enjoyable" - Frederique de Vignemont
We successfully predicted emotion from brain activity, achieving >2x performance to the previous state of the art.
Alljoined collected a dataset of 3,408 videos paired with EEG data across 24 participants, covering happy, sad, fear, anger, disgust, and neutral emotion.
This piece on #lobotomy exhibits many of the dangers of AI-generated videos. It uses no real images and is almost 100 percent factually wrong. https://t.co/nu4tYf1fEe
"Recently, neuroscientists described a new form of neuroplasticity that might be helping the brain learn across a timescale of several seconds — long enough to capture the behavioral process of learning from a single experience."
https://t.co/RqqhfSDgWb
One of the many extraordinary illustrations produced in 1745 by Gautier D’Agoty, which together form his Essai d’Anatomie, a remarkably detailed atlas of the head, neck, and shoulder areas of the human body, with explanatory text in French. More here: https://t.co/LOZ17yrYpE
Our take on the Christmas tree! 🎄🧠
In this video by our #ElectronMicroscopy team, a fluffy pyramidal neuron is lit by twinkling input synapses. To make it, a brain sample was cut into 1000s of nm-thin sections and millions of high-res images were taken.
To make real progress on the problem of consciousness, we need a new theory of biological computation.
Our first step to understand what makes neural computations special is out now in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 🎉
https://t.co/bvDrjIOGN0
Spearheaded by @MilinkovBorjan
well, this is truly bad news. It turns out Oliver Sacks made up a lot of stuff in his books (books which I loved till now), and also covered up for horrific behavior from others and from himself.
Via @hbdchick:
Depaywalled & dePinkerized version:
https://t.co/W0a8JlYvuZ
✨ New online:
Five experts offer their thoughts on the future of human intelligence - featuring @drkatedevlin, Martha Nussbaum, @richardsusskind, @ZiyadMarar and @mocost
https://t.co/YoqVN7TMQb
Interactive brain-body connectivity at the Codex. Click on thorax, salivary gland, etc, and see the neurons associated with that body part! H/T @mottcallie https://t.co/5KZxJTVdqx
Rubber arm illusion in octopus
(Kawashima & Ikeda)
https://t.co/3geaYFaAao
"we used the rubber hand illusion to demonstrate that an octopus, an invertebrate (cephalopod mollusk), also experiences body ownership of its arms."