Monthly Archives: July 2024

On the night train to FENS in Vienna

Posted on July 25, 2024 by P.T.R. Rupprecht

The FENS is the biggest neuroscientific conference in Europe. It is 5 days long and is attended by 5’000-10’000 participants. This year, the conference took place in Austria’s capital, Vienna, roughly 600 km from my current workplace in Zürich. Of … Continue reading →

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A collaborative review on error signals in predictive processing

Posted on July 23, 2024 by P.T.R. Rupprecht

Predictive processing is one of the most influential ideas from computational neuroscience for the experimental neurosciences. However, definitions of predictive processing vary broadly, to the extent that “predictive coding” is used sometimes in a very narrow sense (there are specific … Continue reading →

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Four interesting papers on astrocyte physiology

Posted on July 8, 2024 by P.T.R. Rupprecht

A review of four interesting recent papers on astrocyte neuroscience: (1) Norepinephrine Signals Through Astrocytes To Modulate Synapses (2) A spatial threshold for calcium surge (3) Network-level encoding of local neurotransmitters in cortical astrocytes, and (4) Continue reading →

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