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listmaomao
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which book do you think is the best for graduate students pursuing neuroscience?

which book is good referral for sombody to study neuroscience?

Started by listmaomao (2) • 1 year ago • 0 responses
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Pure Pedantry
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Ecoding Diversity: What is Orthogonal Coding?

One of the problems brains must overcome to behave effectively is to discretely encode all the different responses that they can produce. Considering movement alone, you can move in a lot of...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 2 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neuroscience

Pure Pedantry
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I Want it Now! -- Temporal Discounting in the Primate Brain

Temporal discounting is our tendency to want things now rather than later. In order to encourage us to save money, banks have to offer us a reward in the form of an interest rate. In order to delay...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 3 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neuroscience

Pure Pedantry
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The Function of a Fearful Expression

Human beings use stereotyped facial expressions to identify the feelings of others. We can tell what another person is feeling in part because of how their face looks. However, this says very...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neuroscience

Pure Pedantry
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Must Read Paper on fMRI -and- The Worst fMRI Science Journalism Ever

There is a must-read paper in Nature about the limits of functional MRI as an experimental tool by one of its pioneers, Nikos Logothetis. (Also discussed by Jonah and Vaughan.) This paper is...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 4 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neuroscience

Pure Pedantry
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Acute Tryptophan Depletion increases offer rejection in the Ultimatum Game

Here is an interesting article showing the cross-over between neuropharmacology and decision making. Crockett et al. show that if you use acute tryptophan depletion to lower the levels of serotonin...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 5 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neuroscience

Pure Pedantry
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Double dissociation of sound localization and identification in the auditory cortex of cats

We have known for some time that there is a double dissociation (I will define that term in a minute) between location and identification in the visual system. Neuroscientists speak of a "where"...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neuroscience

Pure Pedantry
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Sound encoding in the rat: a lesson about sparse vs. dense encoding

How do neurons in your brain encode the diversity of stimuli present in the world? This is one of the questions that neuroscientists have to answers about how the brain works. The world holds an...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neuroscience

Pure Pedantry
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The Neurological Basis of the Runner's High

We have all heard about the runner's high, and a great many of us have felt it. When you are running a marathon, about an hour or two in you feel a feeling of euphoria right like you could run...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neuroscience

Pure Pedantry
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How tool use is encoded in the brain

How is tool use encoded in the brain? Most movements involving tools involve the complex manipulation of objects in space, and it is possible that they could represented in the brain in this way...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neuroscience

Pure Pedantry
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Cognition and Emotion are not Separate

This review by Luiz Pessoa in Nature Neuroscience Reviews has to be the most intelligent things I have read in a long time. He argues that the notion that cognition and emotion are separable modules...

Started in Pure Pedantry • 9 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: neuroscience