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Vincent Ferrera
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Neuroscientist
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Boosting the signal: Expectation-driven gain modulation of preparatory spatial attention https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.10.693414v1
December 13, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Oliver Sacks wrote about neurological and psychiatric conditions that few people understand and many stigmatize. Of course, he spoke for himself as well. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Oliver Sacks Put Himself Into His Case Studies. What Was the Cost?
The scientist was famous for linking healing with storytelling. Sometimes that meant reshaping patients’ reality.
www.newyorker.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Introducing NeuroDiscoveryBench, the first benchmark designed to test AI systems on real neuroscience data analysis. Built by @ai2.bsky.social using our high-quality, open datasets to accelerate brain science and AI-assisted discovery.

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NeuroDiscoveryBench: Benchmarking AI for neuroscience data analysis | Ai2
NeuroDiscoveryBench is a benchmark to test how well AI systems can answer questions grounded in real-world neuroscience data.
allenai.org
December 12, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Reposted by Vincent Ferrera
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Tin Q. Nguyen, Laurie E. Cutting, et al:

Functional connectivity between the uncinate fasciculus and frontotemporal semantic system supports reading comprehension in adolescents

doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
December 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Reposted by Vincent Ferrera
Distinct Temporal Patterns of Human Neural Firing in the Subthalamic Nucleus During Speech and Orofacial Movement https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.11.693637v1
December 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Reposted by Vincent Ferrera
Now published in the Journal of Neurophysiology:
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....

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December 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Decoding paradoxical BOLD responses to transcranial ultrasound stimulation with concurrent optoacoustic magnetic resonance imaging | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Decoding paradoxical BOLD responses to transcranial ultrasound stimulation with concurrent optoacoustic magnetic resonance imaging
Concurrent optoacoustic and magnetic resonance imaging reveals paradoxical brain responses to ultrasound stimulation.
www.science.org
December 11, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reposted by Vincent Ferrera
Reposted by Vincent Ferrera
Generative AI will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between neural function and behavior, writes @shahabbakht.bsky.social.

#neuroskyence

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Seeing the world as animals do: How to leverage generative AI for ecological neuroscience
Generative artificial intelligence will offer a new way to see, simulate and hypothesize about how animals experience their worlds. In doing so, it could help bridge the long-standing gap between…
www.thetransmitter.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
In this study, we used a drift-diffusion framework (PyDDM) to estimate latent decision variables in a transitive inference task.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Learning decouples accuracy and reaction time for rapid decisions in a transitive inference task
Transitive inference (TI) is a cognitive process in which decisions are guided by internal representations of abstract relationships. While the mechanisms underlying transitive learning have been well...
www.biorxiv.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Sisyphus only had to move one stone. Slacker.
December 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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New preprint alert!

Cognitive maps are flexible, dynamic, (re)constructed representations

#psychscisky #neuroskyence #cognition #philsky 🧪
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November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Nature research paper: Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces

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Building compositional tasks with shared neural subspaces - Nature
The brain can flexibly perform multiple tasks by compositionally combining task-relevant neural representations.
go.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Reposted by Vincent Ferrera
New polling on aliens
% of U.S. adult citizens who believe the following definitely or probably exist:
Aliens 56%
Bigfoot 28%
The Yeti 23%
The Loch Ness Monster 22%
Chupacabra 16%
today.yougov.com/health/artic...
November 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Anza-Borrego State Park.
November 23, 2025 at 7:45 PM
An unusual amount of empty poster boards at SFN 2025
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Harlem foliage
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Hello #tRNS lovers: 🧠

Ó Dúinín, E., Steopan J., Kessler, K., Santos, FH. Sci Rep 15, 37977 (2025)

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Ad Astra
October 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Dutch lawmakers have approved the phase-out of primate research at one of Europe’s biggest facilities. Neuroscientists are worried.

By Lauren Schenkman

#neuroskyence

www.thetransmitter.org/animal-model...
Nonhuman primate research to lose federal funding at major European facility
The Dutch Senate has ordered the Biomedical Primate Research Centre in the Netherlands to shift its funding away from primate experiments by 2030.
www.thetransmitter.org
October 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Reposted by Vincent Ferrera
Basket cells, parvalbumin expressing or fast-spiking neurons, names that emphasize different properties of the same type. However they are not all the same, like these in the mouse barrel cortex: one has axon in its layer; the other sends axon to other layers
Both are very beautiful
#neuroskyence
September 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
random photo
September 22, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Reposted by Vincent Ferrera
The sodium-potassium pump is a protein in the neuron's membrane that uses ATP to move three sodium ions out and two potassium ions into the cell, thereby restoring the resting potential necessary for nerve impulses.
September 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Exclusive: Mr. Smith Gets A Neuralink Implant
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Exclusive: Mr. Smith Gets A Neuralink Implant
The before and after journey of a family using tech to battle ALS
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May 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM