What a terrific group of DUNE Scholars we are privileged to have this summer! We learned so much together with human brains in our hands during our Neuroscience Retreat Day. Great young minds asking great questions and offering insightful remarks. @neurocircuits.bsky.social @dukebrain.bsky.social

And the driver of this reorganization? Hippocampal neurogenesis! Eliminating hippocampal neurogenesis prevented engram rewiring and ‘froze’ memories in their original precise state. Conversely, promoting hippocampal neurogenesis accelerated hippocampal rewiring and the emergence of gist.

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Thanks everyone who came to see our trialwise RSA poster.

Preprint went live today!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Today in @natureneuro.bsky.social, @changlabucsf.bsky.social and @berkeleyengineer.bsky.social's Gopala Anumanchipalli, PhD, have developed a new AI-based method that decodes neural data into audible speech in real-time: engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2025/03...
#Neuroskyence 🧪

Session C on Sunday evening 5-7pm. @mslayton.bsky.social will present Understanding the mechanisms of lateral parietal memory modulation in Mild Cognitive Impairment (C65).

This project shows a change in semantic representations after TMS in prodromal AD, and we hope leads to new therapies for AD.

New paper alert! Have you ever looked at single-trial fMRI activation maps? If so, you know that they are super variable. Here we show that the variability is not just noise. In fact, the same task can consistently elicit different activation patterns. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is cool.

What do you picture when you think of the first brain imaging experiment? An fMRI machine? A PET scanner?

How about a wooden seesaw with a person lying on it? ...In 1884.

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#NeuroSkyence #PsychSciSky

The administration is presenting the reduction in indirect cost rates as a way to free up more funds for research, or sometimes a cost saving to taxpayers suggesting the funds will be returned to the treasury. But, in my view, this is unlikely to be the case.

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BREAKING: Federal judge blocks Trump administration move to immediately cap federal research grants overhead at 15%. Judge Angel Kelley in Boston, a Biden appointee, grants temporary restraining order. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Wonderful explainer on indirect costs by Dick Aslin open.substack.com/pub/dickasli...

Cognitive maps for hierarchical spaces in the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.05.636580v1

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%.

I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters.

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

MVPA can do more heavy-lifting than we thought! Compelling thread on the sorts of questions that can have fairly reliable answers with reasonable participant population sizes

How does the brain work in natural scenarios, in multi-animal societies of wild animals? 🧠 🧪 🦇

doi.org/10.1126/scie...

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🚨🚨New SPM version alert! 🚨🚨

Introducing SPM 25.01, plus a more modern, open ethos to its development.

Some more information about whats changes can be found here - arxiv.org/abs/2501.12081

Stable release - www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/software/
GitHub developer version - github.com/spm/spm

Did you know your ears make sounds when your eyes move? We made a demo👇 & read on about our discovery #neuroskyence 1/
youtu.be/P3geSFX48ig

🧠Hippocampal functions modulate transfer-appropriate cortical representations supporting subsequent memory🧠
Just published in the Journal of Neuroscience: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...