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3 weeks ago | 
thetransmitter.org | Brady Huggett
Features editorThe Transmitter ReporterThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Neural networks, Calcium imaging, Cortex, Dendrites, Neurons Rafael Yuste woke up in his bedroom. It was early on a Sunday morning at the end of March 2019. Manhattan was quiet outside his windows. He had been dreaming of Sydney Brenner, sitting face to face with the Nobel-Prize-winning biologist.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | Brady Huggett
Losing HHMI Investigator status caused Yuste to study neural networks in a new way.
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2 months ago | 
thetransmitter.org | Brady Huggett |Paul Middlebrooks
Features editorThe Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Synaptic, Autism, Brain imaging, Brain mapping, Brain stimulation, Neurodevelopment Your browser doesn't support the audio element Download Damien Fair is professor in the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota Medical School and co-director of the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Ashley Juavinett |Brady Huggett |Claudia Lopez Lloreda |Holly Barker
Associate teaching professor of neurobiologyUniversity of California, San Diego Share this article: Tags: How to teach this paper, Hippocampus, Learning and memory, Oscillations Our brain activity is a constantly evolving mix of waves at different frequencies, depending on what we’re up to. We ramp up our alpha waves with meditation, increase the gamma gain for difficult cognitive work and settle into slow delta waves while we’re sleeping.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Brady Huggett |Claudia Lopez Lloreda |Holly Barker |Angie Voyles Askham
Transcript:[opening theme music]Brady HuggettThere is no show today. A quick note instead. We’ve put a cap on the first two seasons of “Synaptic.” Great two years of interviews. I learned a ton; hopefully you have, too. We’ve had guests such as Cathy Lord, Ardem Patapoutian and Eve Marder. We had a great interview with David Sussillo, I thought. A great interview with Catherine Dulac—I’ll remember that one for a long time.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Paul Middlebrooks |Brady Huggett |Jill Adams |Loren M. Frank
Special faculty research associate, Carnegie Mellon University;Contributor, The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Brain Inspired, Artificial intelligence, Computational neuroscience, NeuroAI, Systems neuroscience The Transmitter has partnered with “Brain Inspired,” a podcast hosted by Paul Middlebrooks that features in-depth conversations with neuroscientists studying natural and artificial intelligence, philosophy, consciousness and other related areas.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Matthew G. Perich |Jill Adams |Brady Huggett |Nancy Padilla-Coreano
Matthew G. Perich is assistant professor of neuroscience at the University of Montreal and an associate member of Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute. His lab’s research spans neurophysiology experiments, computational neuroscience and AI to uncover neural principles driving behavior across the animal kingdom. Perich earned his Ph.D. from Northwestern University, studying cortical control of movement in monkeys in Lee Miller’s lab.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Brady Huggett |Jill Adams |Nancy Padilla-Coreano |Paul Middlebrooks
Tim RyanI became sensitized during the Ph.D., but it’s true. The real shift was then I had to go outside of my comfort zone completely. I joined a lab not really knowing what I was going to do. I happened to join a lab that also wasn’t giving tons of direction, for better or worse, but mostly discussing ideas. I came up with some things that were interesting. Truthfully, they weren’t related to synapse.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Paul Middlebrooks |Brady Huggett |Emily Willingham
The classic story of dopamine’s role in learning is related to reward prediction errors—dopamine is modulated when you expect a reward and don’t get it, and when you don’t expect a reward but do get it. Vijay Mohan K. Namboodiri, assistant professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, calls this a prospective account of dopamine function because it requires an animal to look into the future to expect a reward.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
thetransmitter.org | Paul Middlebrooks |Brady Huggett |Jill Adams |Kevin G. Bender
Special faculty research associate, Carnegie Mellon University;Contributor, The Transmitter Share this article: Tags: Brain Inspired, Artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, careers, Machine learning, Methods The Transmitter has partnered with “Brain Inspired,” a podcast hosted by Paul Middlebrooks that features in-depth conversations with neuroscientists studying natural and artificial intelligence, philosophy, consciousness and other related areas.
