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How to use Google Scholar as a neuroscientist
Google Scholar is a search engine for scientific publications. There are alternatives like PubMed (not a search engine but a database, often used in the medical field), Semantic Scholar (also a database, but with richer annotations), Citation Gecko (to discover … Continue reading
Posted in neuroscience, Review, Reviews, writing
Tagged Literature search, neuroscience, science
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There is no recipe for discoveries
There is no recipe for discoveries, and there is no cookbook on how to publish a paper. But at least there are typical events and routes that are often encountered. Here, I’d like to share the trajectory of a study … Continue reading
Posted in Calcium Imaging, Data analysis, hippocampus, Imaging, machine learning, Microscopy, neuroscience, Review
Tagged Calcium Imaging, Data analysis, Microscopy
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Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2023)
How does the brain work and how can we understand it? To view this big question from a broad perspective, I’m reporting some ideas about the brain that marked me most during the past twelve months and that, on the … Continue reading
Posted in hippocampus, Neuronal activity, Review
Tagged evolution, language, theoretical neuroscience
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Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2022)
How does the brain work and how can we understand it? To view this big question from a broad perspective at the end of each year, I’m reporting some of the thoughts about the brain that marked me most during … Continue reading
Self-supervised denoising of calcium imaging data
This blog post is about algorithms based on deep networks to denoise raw calcium imaging movies. More specifically, I will write about the difficulties to interprete their outputs, and on how to address these limitations in future work. I will … Continue reading
Public peer review files
Peer-review is probably the most obscure part of the publication of scientific results. In this blog post, I would like to make the point that the best way to learn about it – except by being directly involved – is … Continue reading
Posted in Calcium Imaging, Imaging, machine learning, Microscopy, Neuronal activity, Review
Tagged deep learning, Microscopy, neuroscience, peer review
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Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2021)
How does the brain work and how can we understand it? I want to make it a habit to report some of the thoughts about the brain that marked me most during the past twelve month at the end of … Continue reading
Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2019)
How does the brain work and how can we understand it? I want to make it a habit to report some of the thoughts about the brain that marked me most during the past twelve month at the end of … Continue reading
A blog about neurophysiology 