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Regional topography of auditory and visual attention: An fMRI-based meta-analysis More than three decades of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has gathered extensive evidence of auditory and visual attention effects in th…

Regional topography of auditory and visual attention: An fMRI-based meta-analysis

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I don't want to be that guy (I absolutely want to be that guy), but "good" and "bad" *are* categories... 🤷‍♀️

How the visual brain can learn to parse images using a multiscale, incremental grouping process Author summary In our perception, image elements that belong to the same object are grouped by object-based attention. Object-based attention corresponds to an enhanced neuronal representation of the ...

How the visual brain can learn to parse images using a multiscale, incremental grouping process

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Perceptual prediction error supports implicit process in motor learning Author summary Everyday actions, like reaching for a cup of coffee, require precise motor control. When errors occur, the brain adapts through two distinct processes: a conscious strategy (explicit le...

Perceptual prediction error supports implicit process in motor learning

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Facebook and Instagram Tighten Censorship Rules for Saying “Antifa” Meta’s new rules let it ban users or suppress comments that include the word “antifa” alongside “content-level threat signals.”

The new rule forbids, for example, using the word 'antifa' combined with reference to historical wars/battles. Meaning a post comparing antifa to the antifascist nature of WWII could land you a ban on Instagram or FB.

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Sparseness facilitates image encoding across visuo-frontal networks in freely moving macaque

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Well, as you see there's quite a bunch of people interested in it (because it *is* very interesting work). :)

Linking to your post here:
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Neural circuits encode prior knowledge of temporal statistics - Nature Neuroscience This study shows that cerebellar circuits learn and encode prior probabilities of event timing. Cell-type-specific neural activity reflects environmental statistics and guides predictive motor behavio...

Our work on how neural circuits in the cerebellum encode prior probabilities led by Julius Koppen is out now in Nature Neuroscience www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Big thanks to Julius Koppen & the whole team! And dedicated to all of us who found inspiration in Bayesian theories of the brain!

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex - Nature Face cells in the macaque inferotemporal cortex are initially able to detect faces and then rapidly switch to a face-specific neural code to discriminate between different face identities.

This looks like a significant discovery from Doris Tao's lab:

Rapid concerted switching of the neural code in the inferotemporal cortex
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"..our findings indicate that there is a previously unknown mechanism for neural representation:.."

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So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….

Hahaha wow, some people really go far for their 200$ stake in Amazon stocks to get out of the red... 😅

Excess Capacity Learning

"We introduce a new framework for understanding how cognitive systems (...) learn from experience, based on the concept of representational capacity—the relative amount of representational resources devoted to encoding past experiences."

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Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking.

arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852

Liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen:

Der Irankrieg hat nicht „die Energiepreise“ erhöht, sondern die für Öl und Gas.

Es werden nicht „die Autofahrer entlastet“, es werden Kosten für den Teil der Bevölkerung reduziert, der einen Verbrenner fährt. Auf Kosten aller anderen.

Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain - Nature Reviews Neuroscience Categorization, the grouping of objects, living organisms, actions or events into equivalence clusters, is fundamental to adaptive behaviour. In this Perspective, Barrett and Miller discuss evidence t...

Categorization is ‘baked’ into the brain — a Perspective by Lisa Feldman Barrett & Earl K. Miller

@lisafeldmanbarrett.com @earlkmiller.bsky.social

#neuroscience #neuroskyence

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Love to see them in here 😁

Even published on the same day as this one. I initially thought they were the same article 😅
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Brain-inspired warm-up training with random noise for uncertainty calibration - Nature Machine Intelligence Cheon and Paik show that overconfidence in deep neural networks arises from standard initialization practices, and that brief warm-up training with random noise improves uncertainty calibration and meta-cognitive recognition of unknown inputs.

Brain-inspired warm-up training with random noise for uncertainty calibration

Another article on using noise for calibration in DNN. Love to see this.

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That is a wonderful little experiment, thanks!

Yes, and how wonderful it is to see that this is exactly the same for Artificial Learning Systems? Like in Dropout, Masking, Augmentation, etc...

This world would be a so much better place if we would start to appreciate uncertainty more.

Learning to be uncertain before learning from data - Nature Machine Intelligence Neural networks may be overconfident before they see real data. By briefly training on random noise, models can learn to be uncertain, leading to better calibration, improved identification of out-of-distribution inputs and thus more reliable predictions.

Learning to be uncertain before learning from data

Learning on noise before training Neural Network scan boost performance? This somehow makes sense in terms of calibration... Probably worth a read!

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Learning and Representation of Categories in the Rodent Brain Category learning—the ability to group individual objects, experiences, and concepts into higher-level abstract representations—is fundamental to fast, flexible decision-making and generalization of knowledge to novel situations. While categories and concepts have traditionally been studied in humans and nonhuman primates, this review puts the focus on the lesser-known domain of rodent category learning. Within the context of human and nonhuman primate work, we highlight the behavioral capabilities and limitations of rodents in categorization tasks, and discuss the neural circuits identified so far. Finally, we outline a roadmap for uncovering the systems and synaptic mechanisms that support the representation of learned categories in the mammalian brain.

Learning and Representation of Categories in the Rodent Brain

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@anyone arguing they're here to defend us:
With this administration we have absolutely no guarantees whatsoever. We're on our own anyway.

In the case of an assault on Europe, Trump USA is about as likely to side with the invader as it is defending Europe (remember Greenland). Might as well leave. 🤷‍♀️

Trump threatens troop pullback from "unhelpful" NATO countries | Morning Report YouTube video by TVP WORLD

Oh no, Trump threatens to pull troops out of unthankful Europe!

This must be the most horrible event since the time Spain pulled out of the unthankful Americas and the UK threatened to leave India, Africa, and Ireland! 😱

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Oxford scientists uncover how the brain resolves emotional ambiguity Non-invasive ultrasound study reveals causal role of the amygdala in interpreting uncertain emotions.

NEWS: Oxford scientists uncover how the brain resolves emotional ambiguity

@oxcin.bsky.social scientists find a key emotional centre deep in the human brain directly influences how we interpret ambiguous social cues.

You cannot remain silent and sit on the sidelines just because the places under attack are not your hospitals, schools or universities. Or because they are places you have never seen, the countries are changing one by one. As you say ‘the other’, ‘this one’, ‘that one’, one day it will be my country

Hopefully helpful to some people, but its sad that we need to write articles on this.

This is not a big problem for men and this shouldn't be a problem for anyone. 🤷‍♀️

Ten simple rules for postdoctoral mums to stay competitive in academia

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Sounds like another smart and well thought through project from the lab of @benediktehinger.bsky.social

Looking forward to checking it out at some point... :)