#Neuroscientists

MIT Picower Institute

New in @natureneuro: The Tonegawa lab finds memory cells that help us interpret new situations https://picower.mit.edu/news/neuroscientists-find-memory-cells-help-us-interpret-new-situations #neuroscience #memory @mitbrainandcog @ScienceMIT @MITBiolo

#SpecialEducation #education #psychology and #educationalneuroscience #learning science #researchers: question about collaboration across fields... are we all listening to each other enough? I have the impression that...special education re

I've been debating this person and @SameerAstron about life and they keep on bringing up consciousness and not only that, but stating that consciousness is a builohical process. So o

A thread:When neuroscientists “investigate perception”, they require some sort of behavioral measure to distinguish between different “perceptual outcomes” (e.g. appetitive vs aversive stimuli). In humans, this can often be just

Krishna Badhiwala

Hydra. They be there. Sitting. All day long. Sometimes they giggle if u tickle 'em.wasn't going to do a thread but someone encouraged (u know who you are) so instead

RibeiroCarlitos

Last week we discussed papers exploring the effect of #nutrients on human physiology, #brain, and behavior #apaperaday #covid19 #ScienceTwitter #ScienceFromHome #Read #AcademicTwitter This week I will highlight some #Drosophila and

Brainbox Initiative

Poster presentations have always been a big part of the Brainbox Initiative Conference, so we've worked hard this year to make sure that we're still getting things right for our

Neural Cell News

Welcome to STEMCELL's Online #JournalClub! Here, we'll be sharing a paper that sparked our neuroscientists' interests. Thanks to study authors, including M. Ortiz-Virumbrales, @ScottNYSCF, and @samgandy, for making these findings

I just reached out to my summer lab group (~13 undergraduates) to acknowledge the horrific events of the last week, understanding that these are just the latest examples of deadly

Yes, a neuroscientist can understand a microprocessor...a rebuttal thread on the popular paper by @stochastician and @KordingLab While I agree with some of the points, I worry the paper leaves

Morning everyone! Here in rainy Wollongong, I’m starting my @science_a_thon #dayofscience by watering my office plants @MolHorizons @uowresearch, supervised by Dr Worm (a leaving gift from @LabSchafer) In our lab,

Kristin Branson

KristinMBranson

Last week, I gave an overview in our weekly meeting on Imitation Learning. The goal in imitation learning is to train artificial agents to solve problems by watching demonstrations of

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Thread. Every day I hear about children and young people who are desperate to hang out with friends and play, but who aren't used to organising meet-ups that involve socially

Dr. A.S. Barwich

John Bickle's & @AntonellaTrama3's workshop for Philosophers of Neuroscience and Philosophical Neuroscientists (#DSPNIII) has been the highlight of my week. So much that I briefly interrupt my Twitter abstinence w

IAmSciComm - Hosted this week by Matt Carter

We feel like our intentions drive the decisions we make and the actions we take. But has science revealed that 'free will' is an illusion? A thread on the neuroscience

Shahab Bakhtiari

A figure in a recent paper by @talia_konkle and Alvarez (http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.15.153247) reopened an old question for me. The figure shows that an AlexNet architecture with group normalization has more similar