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18/06/2024

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15/06/2024

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Science The spatial periodic computation of hippocampus-entorhinal circuit in navigation To achieve the computational goal of navigating in both physical and mental spaces, human brain employs a cognitive map constructed by the global metrics of the entorhinal cortex and the local locations of the h...

11/06/2024

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Science First They Scream, Then They Laugh: The Cognitive Intersections of Humor and Fear On the surface, fear and humor seem like polar opposite states of mind, yet throughout our lives they continually interact. In this paper, we synthesize neurobiological, psychological, and evolutionary research...

08/06/2024

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Science Cell-class-specific electric field entrainment of neural activity Electric fields affect the activity of neurons and brain circuits, yet how this happens at the cellular level remains enigmatic. Lack of understanding of how to stimulate the brain to promote or suppress specific activity sign...

04/06/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! June 4th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science The neuroscience of active learning and direct instruction Throughout the educational system, students experiencing active learning pedagogy perform better and fail less than those taught through direct instruction. Can this be ascribed to differences in learning from a neuroscientific persp...

01/06/2024

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Science The Brain’s Topographical Organization Shapes Dynamic Interaction Patterns That Support Flexible Behavior Based on Rules and Long-Term Knowledge Adaptive behavior relies both on specific rules that vary across situations and stable long-term knowledge gained from experience. The frontopari...

28/05/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! May 28th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Social content is prioritized in episodic memory Episodic memory helps facilitate navigation of the social world. Yet, whether social content is prioritized in episodic memory is unclear. Testing whether social elements are prioritized when retrieving multi-element episodes during social and...

25/05/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! Weekend of May 25th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Intrinsic Neural Excitability Biases Allocation and Overlap of Memory Engrams Memories are thought to be stored in neural ensembles known as engrams that are specifically reactivated during memory recall. Recent studies have found that memory engrams of two events that happened close in time...

21/05/2024

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18/05/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! Weekend of May 18th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Distinctive and Complementary Roles of Default Mode Network Subsystems in Semantic Cognition The default mode network (DMN) typically deactivates to external tasks, yet supports semantic cognition. It comprises medial temporal (MT), core, and frontotemporal (FT) subsystems, but its functiona...

14/05/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! May 14th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science What the eyes, confidence, and partner’s identity can tell about change of mind Perceptual confidence reflects the ability to evaluate the evidence that supports perceptual decisions. It is thought to play a critical role in guiding decision-making. However, only a few empirical studies ha...

11/05/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! Weekend of May 11th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Neuroanatomical changes observed over the course of a human pregnancy Pregnancy is a period of profound hormonal and physiological change experienced by millions of women annually, yet the neural changes unfolding in the maternal brain throughout gestation have not been studied in humans. Le...

07/05/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! May 7th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Qualia and the Formal Structure of Meaning This work explores the hypothesis that subjectively attributed meaning constitutes the phenomenal content of conscious experience. That is, phenomenal content is semantic. This form of subjective meaning manifests as an intrinsic and non-representat...

04/05/2024

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Science Post-retrieval stress impairs subsequent memory depending on hippocampal memory trace reinstatement during reactivation Upon retrieval, memories can become susceptible to meaningful events, such as stress. Post-retrieval memory changes may be attributed to an alteration of the original memor...

30/04/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! April 30th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Ensemble learning and ground-truth validation of synaptic connectivity inferred from spike trains Probing the architecture of neuronal circuits and the principles that underlie their functional organization remains an important challenge of modern neurosciences. This holds true, in particula...

27/04/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! Weekend of April 27th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Beta: bursts of cognition Beta oscillations are linked to the control of goal-directed processing of sensory information and the timing of motor output. Recent evidence demonstrates they are not sustained but organized into intermittent high-power bursts mediating timely functional inhibitio...

23/04/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! April 23rd, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science What you saw a while ago determines what you see now: The effect and temporal dynamics of awareness priming on implicit behavior The perceptual content (e.g., seen a happy vs. seen a sad face) and also subjective visibility (e.g., whether the stimulus is visible or not) of a given (liminal)....

20/04/2024

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16/04/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! April 16th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Time and memory distrust shape the dynamics of recollection and belief-in-occurrence The current study examined how people’s metamemory judgments of recollection and belief-in-occurrence change over time. Furthermore, we examined to what extent these judgments are affected by memory distru...

13/04/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! Weekend of April 13th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science The Role of Attention in Category Representation Numerous studies have found that selective attention affects category learning. However, previous research did not distinguish between the contribution of focusing and filtering components of selective attention. This study addresses this issu...

09/04/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! April 9th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science The longitudinal relations between mental state talk and theory of mind Research regarding the development of social cognition has been of great interest for decades. One defining moment in this endeavor is Premack and Woordruff’s application of the concept theory of mind (ToM), i.e., the ...

06/04/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! Weekend of April 6th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Latent network analysis of executive functions across development Executive functions (EFs) are crucial for academic achievement, physical health, and mental well-being. Previous studies using structural equation models revealed EFs’ developmental organization, evolving from one factor in ...

02/04/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! April 2nd, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Uncovering the determinants of brain functioning, behavior and their interplay in the light of context Notwithstanding the huge progress in molecular and cellular neuroscience, our ability to understand the brain and develop effective treatments promoting mental health is still limited. This...

30/03/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! Weekend of March 30th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Is the wandering mind a planning mind? Recent studies on mind-wandering reveal its potential role in goal exploration and planning future actions. How to understand these explorative functions and their impact on planning remains unclear. Given certain conceptions of intentions and beliefs,....

26/03/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! March 26th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Arousal coherence, uncertainty, and well-being: an active inference account Here we build on recent findings which show that greater alignment between our subjective experiences (how we feel) and physiological states (measurable changes in our body) plays a pivotal role in the overall psycho...

23/03/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! Weekend of March 23rd, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Predictive Brain Activity Shows Congruent Semantic Specificity in Language Comprehension and Production Sentence fragments strongly predicting a specific subsequent meaningful word elicit larger preword slow waves, prediction potentials (PPs), than unpredictive contexts. To test the current....

19/03/2024

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16/03/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! Weekend of March 16th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Goal-oriented inference of environment from redundant observations The agent learns to organize decision behavior to achieve a behavioral goal, such as reward maximization, and reinforcement learning is often used for this optimization. Learning an optimal behavioral strategy is difficult un...

12/03/2024

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09/03/2024

Neuroblogs Daily! Weekend of March 9th, 2024 https://neuroblogsdaily.com/ #/

Science Sources of richness and ineffability for phenomenally conscious states Conscious states—state that there is something it is like to be in—seem both rich or full of detail and ineffable or hard to fully describe or recall. The problem of ineffability, in particular, is a longstanding issu...