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Annual report of my intuition about the brain (2024)
The brain is a complex system that cannot be understood by a strictly structured approach. Knowledge must grow organically, and a systematic approach can sometimes hinder understanding. In formal education, this truth is often hidden because curricula and instructors provide the structuring of knowledge already. But when it comes to acquiring new knowledge and insight, rather than merely processing and assembling pre-existing knowledge, this systematic approach must be continuously interrupted and re-invented to enable real progress. Continue reading
Posted in Data analysis, Neuronal activity, neuroscience, Reviews
Tagged brain, neuroscience, research, science, theoretical neuroscience, writing
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Four interesting papers on astrocyte physiology
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
Posted in Calcium Imaging, Data analysis, hippocampus, Imaging, Microscopy, Neuronal activity, neuroscience, Reviews, zebrafish
Tagged Calcium Imaging, Data analysis, Microscopy, zebrafish
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Three recent interesting papers on computational neuroscience
Three papers:
1. The Neuron as a Direct Data-Driven Controller
2. A learning algorithm beyond backpropagation
3. Continuous vs. discrete representations in a recurrent network Continue reading
Two random but interesting papers on neurophysiology with behavior
Bagur, Bourg et al. (2022) from the Bathellier Lab in Paris make the interesting finding that the auditory code is represented as temporal sequences of neuronal activity in early auditory processing stages and as spatial patterns in auditory cortex. I … Continue reading
Interesting papers on behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (theory)
Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP) is a form of single-shot learning observed in hippocampal place cells in mice (Bittner et al., 2015, 2017). This finding is both interesting and inspiring for computational neuroscience for several reasons. In the first place, … Continue reading
Interesting papers on behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (experiments)
Behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity (BTSP) is a form of single-shot learning observed in hippocampal place cells in mice (Bittner et al., 2015, 2017). The idea is that post-synaptic activations (“eligibility traces”) are potentiated by a dendritic plateau potential/burst (“instructive signal”) … Continue reading
Interesting papers on recent neuroscience methods
Find below three interesting methods papers relevant for neuroscience. All three of them are, in my opinion, worth a quick read. Acoustic cameras to localize ultrasound vocalization of mice Sterling et al. (2023) from the lab of Bernhard Englitz addressed … Continue reading
Posted in Data analysis, Imaging, Microscopy, neuroscience, Reviews
Tagged Data analysis, Microscopy, photons
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The idea for a journal “eLife-A”
The process of publishing and reviewing scientific results is often a strange and difficult-to-navigate landscape. It would take too long to mention all the problems and pitfalls related to publishing. For example: overly high publication charges; long turnaround times for … Continue reading
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
Post-publication review: The geometry of robustness in spiking neural networks
Selected paper: Calaim, Dehmelt, Gonçalves and Machens, The geometry of robustness in spiking neural networks, eLife (2022) The main message: This theoretical neuroscience paper describes an intuitive way how to think about the effect of single spikes in a network … Continue reading
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Tagged theoretical neuroscience
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A blog about neurophysiology 