“The really important thing to keep in mind is that the older brain’s a wiser brain' says my older brain.
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Charan Ranganath, Dr Allison Sekuler 🧠 👁🥁, and Laura Carstensen seem to agree.

Grid cells have a geometry in time!
Left-right-alternating theta sweeps in the entorhinal-hippocampal spatial map. 🧹 European Research Council (ERC) #KiloNeurons . Creds to Abraham Zelalem Vollan & Rich Gardner at Kavli Neuroscience. May-Britt Moser 🧵1/8
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Daniel Dennett obituary: ‘New atheism’ philosopher who sparked debate on consciousness nature.com/articles/d4158…

An integrative view of the role of prefrontal cortex in consciousness
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📢Special issue on Consciousness, brought to you by Christina Konen & Mariela Zirlinger. This issue includes reviews and commentaries, each addressing a different area of consciousness research, and Q&As with Koch and Stanislas Dehaene .
Find this all here cell.com/neuron/issue?p…

Thalamic contributions to the state and contents of consciousness
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Toward an interventional science of recovery after coma
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Anesthesia and the neurobiology of consciousness
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Remapping revisited: how the hippocampus represents different spaces
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Distributed and dynamical communication: a mechanism for flexible cortico-cortical interactions and its functional roles in visual attention
nature.com/articles/s4200…
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Simultaneous, cortex-wide dynamics of up to 1 million neurons reveal unbounded scaling of dimensionality with neuron number
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Flexible information routing by transient synchrony
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Thanks for a wonderful conversation McGovern Institute !

What in the world is consciousness, anyway? Many have searched for a philosophical explanation for the phenomenon, but McGovern PhD student Adam Eisen seeks a scientific one. MIT Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT Science FieteGroup Earl K. Miller MIT GradLink

mcgovern.mit.edu/2024/04/29/wha…

Are You or Your Child Suffering From Fragmented Attention?
Switching from one task to another lowers productivity and creates stress.
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**Tomorrow: emergentists and reductionists, don't miss!**
Brain Oscillations in Field Potentials, where is the causation?
Neuro-Philosophy Salon with Sander van Bree
Dan Levenstein Matt Krause Bradley Voytek, Richard Gao (@_rdgao)
May 14 1pm EST-USA
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Waves of electrical activity wash the garbage out of your brain while you sleep.
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In the new issue of @newyorker, Jerome E Groopman goes deep into #whyweremember ! Aside for his incredibly generous review, the article is notable for his own storytelling about individual and collective memory. Check it out!

How monkeys 'really' see the world! Wireless eye-tracking in marmosets. Incredible game changing work by VIKRAM PAL SINGH showing the dynamics of active vision in a free-moving primate Jingwen Li Jude Mitchell biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Thanks #TheBRAINInitiative for funding!

Theta and alpha oscillatory signatures of auditory sensory and cognitive loads during complex listening
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