From the abstract: Classic visual deprivation experiments have led to the expectation that neural connections established during development would not appropriately process an input that was not present from birth. Therefore, it was believed that the treatment of congenital vision disorders would be ineffective unless administered to the very young. …
Springer just released a new quarterly journal called ‘Cognitive Computation’, which might be of interest to some of the readers of this blog. The editor, Amir Hussain, summarizes the goal of the journal as follows: “Cognitive Computation specifically aims to publish cutting-edge articles describing original basic and applied work involving …
A fascinating discussion on the nature of scientific modeling, inter-level explanation, hierarchical decomposition, etc., in computational neuroscience has been unfolding over the last couple of weeks on the Comp-neuro newsgroup. Archives can be found here.
Those of you who, like me, are a little rusty on their neuroanatomy might like to check out a free program called ‘BrainVoyager Brain Tutor’, available <a href=”https://www.brainvoyager.com/BrainTutor.html”>here</a>. The program lets you interactively explore high-quality 3D head and brain models, which can be rotated, moved, zoomed and morphed in real-time. I’ve found …
Following on from Gualtiero’s earlier post about the options that graduate students have for getting feedback about their work, I’m curious to hear what the readers of Brains think about the importance of publishing as a graduate student. The opinion here at Rutgers seems to be split between those who …
According to a recent paper in Nature Neuroscience, children with autism have virtually no activity in their brain’s mirror neuron system, the apparatus that facilitates imitation and empathy. The researchers believe this malfunction may be the primary cause of autism. Link.
Scientists believe they have found a way to probe the mysterious phenomenon of feeling you have witnessed something before – deja vu: https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5194382.stm.
