I'm SO tired of people looking for "the neuroscience of X" (meaning uninformative neuroimaging pictures) when *the psychology of X* is right there, doing a perfectly good job...
🐭🧠 Can fUSI truly map canonical mouse resting-state networks — and how does it compare to fMRI?
I’m excited to share the work of my PhD in our new preprint!👉 doi.org/10.64898/202...
Go check it out — it’s time to expand your neuroimaging toolkit 🧠🚀
Can you easily distinguish between value, valence, and salience?
Probably not, but the prefrontal cortex of mice seems to achieve this by creating a sort of multidimensional orthogonal neural space, where each dimension corresponds to one of these subjective elements
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New Perspective from myself, Sarah Heilbronner and @myoo.bsky.social . “Rethinking the centrality of brain areas in understanding functional organization” in Nature Neuroscience. 🧵
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Wrapping up 2025 with the lab.
Proud moments (including some I once thought impossible) and so many failures, living side by side, as science does. We stuck with it together. Grateful for the shared effort, trust, and fun that shaped this year.
Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday break!
How distributed is the brain-wide network that is recruited for cognition? A Perspective by Matthew C. Rosen & David J. Freedman
#neuroscience #neuroskyence
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I wrote a book: "The brain, in theory".
First chapter and TOC:
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very nice talk by Joe McCaffrey on functional localization— it’s an easy listen with tons of great information about the debate.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=eRmD...
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨(1/6)
Excited to share our work, out now in Science Advances
We show that a rapid norepinephrine surge along a brainstem pathway (LC→PRN) is a key driver of sound-evoked awakenings
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Working link to the preprint 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
See thread below for a looong explainer
#NeuroJobs
But couldn’t the opposite be true as well? To say that a cell has a very specific tuning to a category shouldn’t it probed with a really large sample of concepts? After all the ~100 of the paper represents a fairly limited sample space
Too often, I see people talk about a replication as if the first study has established something, and the replication study is a double-check. What people often fail to understand is that we do not do replication studies to *check* a finding, but to *establish* a finding. 1/x
This review may be relevant. They argue that BOLD results mainly from the entrainment of blood vessels on the (low-frequency) envelope of gamma neural oscillations
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thinking about writing a pop science book about the brain (“Your Brain on Everything”) where the big reveal is that all the brain names were randomized and I was actually talking about psychology the whole time.
Our new paper is out in Science.
We identified a subgroup of cholinergic neurons that mediate sensory modality-specific attention. They change their funcitonal properties within secs of behavioral context change.
Congrats to Bin for the great thesis, and the team!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Is the "homunculus" that supposedly monitors the activity of the mid-level visual cortex real or imaginary?
An important question than is: if this work was advertised as exploratory research, would it still be published in Science? (Of course, this is likely a problem that affects the publication process in general, rather than this paper specifically; we should probably work to change that)
And probably we didn’t even moved on completely. I think it’s still considered true by the general public
Advances in neuroscience have yielded massive, rich datasets from various analysis techniques and modalities. 🧠📈
In a @natureneuro.bsky.social perspective, researchers underscore the importance of an integrative approach to render a more complete picture of the brain.
Beyond Mechanism—Extending Our Concepts of Causation in Neuroscience onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - really pleased that this paper with Henry Potter is now published in the European Journal of Neuroscience 😊
