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Mashup Score: 24‘It must be something I ate’ is hard-wired into the brain - 30 day(s) ago
Feeling sick reactivates “novel flavor” neurons, according to a new study in mice, and points to a dedicated circuit for learning to avoid unsafe food.
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Mashup Score: 15Two studies fail to replicate ‘holy grail’ DIANA fMRI method for detecting neural activity - 1 month(s) ago
The signal it flags is more likely the result of cherry-picking data, according to the researchers who conducted one of the new studies.
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Mashup Score: 54
We found an issue with a specific type of brain imaging study and tried to share it with the field. Then the backlash began.
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Mashup Score: 27What are we talking about? Clarifying the fuzzy concept of representation in neuroscience and beyond - 2 month(s) ago
To foster discourse, scientists need to account for all the different ways they use the term “representation.”…
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Mashup Score: 129When do neural representations give rise to mental representations? - 2 month(s) ago
To answer this question, consider the animal’s umwelt, or what it needs to know about the world.
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Mashup Score: 129When do neural representations give rise to mental representations? - 2 month(s) ago
To answer this question, consider the animal’s umwelt, or what it needs to know about the world.
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Mashup Score: 4U.S. government requested inquiry into Alzheimer’s scientist over misconduct allegations - 3 month(s) ago
Gary Dunbar’s university ruled he was not guilty of research misconduct. Nine months later, the federal government demanded another look.
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Mashup Score: 0Noisy brain may underlie some of autism’s sensory features - 3 month(s) ago
Random fluctuations in neuronal activity are more variable in a fragile X mouse model than in wildtype mice.
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Mashup Score: 13
In his new book, neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell argues that, despite his field’s mechanistic models of cognition, we are all “Player One” in the game of life, the authors of our own actions.
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Mashup Score: 1Going deep: The Transmitter’s top long-form stories in 2023 - 4 month(s) ago
Our favorite features and book excerpts from the past year delved into the neurobiology of cancer; problems with survey data; free will; mathematical minds; and questions around one startup’s quest to…
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‘It must be something I ate’ is hard-wired into the brain, study in mice suggests. Learning occurs in seconds rather than days. Food for thought when treating #ARFID. @Rajan___Singh @BMoshiree @IBS_Maastricht @KewinSiah https://t.co/hWpi31KISF