Nedah Nemati explains how neuroscience methods and the lived experience of the scientists themselves shape how we define the behaviors we seek to explain.
James Harrison discusses how modern neuroscience explains clinical hypnosis, making the case to bring hypnosis from a misunderstood fringe practice to an accepted psychiatric treatment.
Ehud Ahissar is a professor in the Department of Brain Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Years of studying how rodents actively sense their environment through whisking has led Ahissar to propose a dualistic framework for consciousness. He suggests we communicate with others (and ourselves) through a non-physical digital process, while we experience the world through a physical analog process. These two processing modes map onto complementary opposing hierarchical loops of brain circuitry.
Liset de la Prida on how neuronal subtypes influence population manifolds and the varieties of sharp wave ripples in the brain.
rains encode information in representations that perform computations to make predictions, right? No, no, no, and no. That’s Romain Brette’s response to those ill-conceived notions that neuroscience relies on to try to explain how cognition works. He uses more words to do that in his new book, The Brain, in Theory, which we discuss today.
