I've never had a chance to do a proper tour as a musician, so I decided to make this obnoxious tour flyer for my upcoming events in Boston. 2/3 of the events are free! No overpriced merch! If you are in Boston, come and say hi

I dk if anyone following is based in the Sac/Davis area, but my new band, theNULL is playing our debut show tonight at Cafe Colonial. All the bands in the lineup features a melodic post-punk vibe, though I'll say theNULL is hard to music, vids, etc. forthcoming at www.instagram.com/thenull_davis/

Illustration of the growth of publications, not surprising, but still striking.

The coolest finding IMO debunks the widespread assumption that pattern separation is the opposite of pattern completion. Alan's sims show how EC disinhibition reduces pattern separation, thereby reducing pattern completion and recall of memories from degrades retrieval cues as in Vieweg et al. 2015

Alan altered his model such that the EC layer that sends input to the trisynaptic pathway (DG and CA3) is an attractor network with recurrent inhibition & conjunctive coding (see figure for an intuitive description).

In DG, extremely sparse cell assemblies encode conjunctions from numerous EC inputs, leading to pattern separation--such that overlapping memories (like a family picnic in the park and a subsequent dog walk in the park) are assigned to distinct cell assemblies. These are also properties of ECIIa!

The model builds on Alan's previous "Theremin" model, which showed how error-driven learning in the hippocampus enhances the ability to learn in the face of interference. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

I think they need to go back to the drawing board on that one. @earlkmiller.bsky.social

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Even though his imaging hypotheses didn't fare so well, they got people thinking in new ways beyond the old dogma (and many misconceptions) about HM. And he wasn't afraid to be wrong. He even agreed to be on cover illustration for an article claiming to refute his HERA model.

#CoverDrop!!! for my book WHY WE REMEMBER , now available for pre-order from
@doubledaybooks
due out February 2024! https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705542/why-we-remember-by-charan-ranganath-phd/